Sort of. The current generation didn’t have that much backlash, but that’s mostly down to it initially being a slight evolution of Gen 5, which was actually putting on a great show by the end of it’s life (not so in its first few years). The first couple years of Gen 6 were great, but I think everyone was too caught…

I’m a project manager for a commercial electrician, and I regularly go back and forth with the guy who trained me on whether we need to hire an excavator for a job or if we can dig it ourselves with a bunch of apprentices.

The car jumps. 

1000% Percent agree. He’s very much got a “random guy who made it big and is living it up” vibe to him. I don’t like this particular song at all, but he has a lot of music that makes you understand where the 80's/90's rock fandom comes from.

Being a Komatsu product, I’d expect it’d be aimed more at the industrial sector. But even then, I’m pretty sure an Apprentice with a shovel would be cheaper.

Fortunately, no one was hurt in the fire, per CNBC, but I still hope this doesn’t sour Briglin on electric cars:

Yeah, I must’ve missed it. It’s in the middle of that weird spot where they drop an ad, a video, and the request to sign up for the newsletter before the piece picks back up again. I feel absolutely no shame for missing it in this stupid layout they started using awhile back.

There was a popular tweet yesterday about some guy whose neighbor leased a Wrangler 4xe because it was the only/cheapest way to get his hands on a Wrangler. He didn’t even know it was a hybrid until the guy went over and showed him. It’s hilarious, but also proves PHEV’s have an advantage that doesn’t show up in…

I have zero clue what the mid sn-95 or sn-197's were like, but the S550's are a riot.

I should have couched this with specifically S550's, and probably the V8 models as well. Although while the old V6's were gutless, I’ve heard good things about the EcoBoost.

Mustang. Kristen Lee nailed it when she was still here: You spend your whole life believing all the bad stigmas about them and their drivers...

I think he means crash relative to the peak, not the conventional average. Copper and Steel are still rising for us in the electrical business, albeit incrementally.

Indeed. Buying a reliable and efficient car has never been more expensive.

Bingo. It’s a shame that a bunch of asshole rich people use this as an argument against gas taxes, but it’s the goddam truth. And even more prescient when a reliable and efficient car is more unaffordable than ever for those who the cost is actually debilitating to.

Gas prices have an outsized influence on our psyche, because they change often and are prominent and visual.

Hell yes. when I was driving my ‘01 Tahoe in high school, the fuel pumped died around the 125k mile mark. Once I replaced it, I was getting 50+ more miles per tank.

I think the more accurate but bitter way of framing this headline/1st-3rd is that people absolutely would have bought more hybrids over the last 20 years had their been more available. It kinda feels like this “no shit” obvious moment where all the normal cars on the lot are hybrid, and it actually doesn’t impact…

I remember it taking until after Fernando left for everyone to realize that it was more of a Honda problem than it was a Mclaren/Alonso problem. Then go-figure, those engines finallly get improved once Red Bull takes over that whole program. 

The fact that it wasn’t a Mercedes somehow made it not boring for me, and I’m not really a RB fan.

absolutely stoked to see how well Lando is doing, but equally disappointed to see Ricciardo falling further back. It feels so recent that he was leading the charge at Red Bull.