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what the FUCK

they had better have been listening to this while working on the rocket. one of the best damn soundtracks of all time.

I still say the established automakers should try going private the way Dell did. They very clearly are never going to make shareholders happy with good long term decisions.

$50 says now that the Cybertruck’s only real competitor is on the market, Elon is going to go scorched earth trying to get it out the door, which will probably lead to it being the most unfinished product they have ever released.

Eh, Maverick is a crossover frame chopped into a pickup. This guy is longing for when they had BOF trucks available in a smaller package (which is a bit over-romanticized, imo). The Maverick feels more like a car while the classic Ranger, to his point, felt more like farm equipment.

I don’t think there’s anything too nuts about still asking for vinyl seats in a truck. They still sell a gazillion of these two Orkin, Napa, and contractors. Something between leather and cloth still has value.

I’ve seen bent frames on buses due to plowing into the side of a hill or rolling at speed into a ditch at an angle. I also saw one that took a dive into a lagoon at speed, but it wasn’t really damaged.

Most of them actually blame it on going from having somewhere to be and something to do for 35 years to not, and just kind of crapping out after. Which I’ve heard actually is valid, but obviously chain smoking and eating Arby’s isn’t helpful either.

Indeed. FWIW, the guys don’t romanticize the job the way people on the outside tend to. You absolutely make great coin doing it, especially if you do side work for cash, but it puts hard miles on the body. All of them are acutely aware that the average life-expectancy post-retirement is only 7ish years. And that’s for…

Lord knows it, but 2 problems:

Hell yes. I regularly think about what parts are still in production from 20 years ago just so they can keep rolling those damn things off the line. 

Of course they do. The problem is that like all the other skilled trades, nobody is lining up for them out of HS anymore. Granted, we are in a particularly rough spot because the test to get admitted is pretty difficult. But that’s because Electricity is f*cking dangerous, and you need to be fairly knowledgeable before…

I actually kept checking the registration status from the VIN for a few years after I traded it for a lease on a new Tacoma that turned out to be a complete headache (brakes had all kinds of crud in the fluid, battery didn’t hold a charge in winter). Last I checked, the registration hadn’t been renewed for a couple…

Oh my god. I’m just now realizing I haven’t driven a car with armrests since I got rid of my account’s namesake back in 2016. Fuck, those things were great.

Right, 2nd gear is just a creative way of framing of a mechanic’s shortage, like all the other skilled trades are. Auto mechanics have been adjusting to knew technology forever, even small independent mechanics (or at least the good ones) still send their people to regular classes on the new shit that’s going in.

Employee of union electrician here. The issue is unions aren’t really “businesses” and don’t really compete with each other. It’s not meant to be a company that represents assembly plant workers, it is the metaphorical union  of all the assembly plant workers in a given geographic area. The only way you could get…

Somewhere there is a group of people whose job it was to come up with a suffix to put at the end of an electric Escalade, and those presumably very well-paid people came up with IQL. Like it actually looks good written somewhere, or EYE CUE EL just rolls off the tongue. Fucking incredible. 

That’s fair, but all of that is still better than the tax credit system we have. A lot of ink has already been spilled on how un-good that program is.

Of course it’s the joke, the joke sucks not because it’s a bad joke, but because it’s a joke that is still meant to try and sell you on an EV in spite of various shortcomings (cost, charging infrastructure, etc.) while simultaneously referencing another country that deals with those shortcomings a lot better than we…