I would be really, really shocked if Bill Gates owned a freaking McDonald’s franchise. I suspect it would be fairly major news, honestly.

That’s kind of rewriting the history of battery progress that’s happened since the early 2000s.

The difference is a company that has a reputation to uphold as opposed to a loosely connected entity that exists to milk as much value out of the middle as it can.

If I have a 250 lb passenger, yes, I can tell the car drives differently.

Do you care that the car is faster, or do you want the numbers to be bigger to impress your Camry-owning neighbor?

I have a 2019 S4 and came from a A4. Yeah, it’s no longer the V8 but the car is more powerful and faster, so I’d say more hoonable. The day I picked it up I tried to see if I could feel the rear sports differential kicking in by driving like a maniac. I scared the shit out of myself and realized that the car can’t be…

I understand the gravity behind the situation, I think. But isn’t fielding an exclusively female team the definition of a gimmick?

Wells Fargo is a bank. One. The shittiest one.

Yes, this article is absurd. Do we have to tell people to cook their bacon too. Why do media types treat American consumers as children.

I certainly did, Tom, and can you show me where it say something along the lines of “buyers that engage in immoral activities are due whatever comes their way from the banks they’re trying to screw”? Because that’s what this is, Tom. It’s the consumer trying to screw over the bank. Edit: Which, by the way, also did…

Does no one here fault the morality of the buyer?!? Jesus H - its like Tom is completely absolving the buyer of any fault, here. Nobody held a gun to the buyer’s head and said “sign here”. This speaks more to the “I deserve a new car” mentality of people than it does to the sales tactics of a car dealer. Dealers are…

You’re not much of road tripper and/or you have way more vacation time than I do. Road trips for me are about minimizing time between destinations.  Start with a full tank and go til 1/4-1/8 tank, stop to fill up, hit the head, grab a quick bite, and get moving again. I certainly have no desire to turn an 8 hour trip…

Two hours extra though, that is not good. Eight hours driving is one thing, ten hours on the road is another. That recharge time has got to come down, it cannot be as long as thirty minutes with a supercharger. It has to be five minutes, maybe ten tops. 

“There are experiences beyond yours, and they are equally interesting and valuable.”

My knees would disagree with your comment about space not being used.

How can a paint scheme be greedy? Anyway, I like the JFK scheme better but this new one doesn’t look that bad. It’s not like they’re painting it to look like the Team America jet.

Carbon fiber body, huh? Nice.

As opposed to your comment, which was edifying and insightful. 

I imagine the reaction would be different from those same commenters if GM did this

Oh sure. None of us have ever been on a back road with no houses and thick tree cover before. Come off it, man. If you use a light bar responsibly, fine, but don’t claim you got a special kind of dark in your part of the country. My HIDs light up any road just fine whether I’m driving past a farm or a mcdonalds. Your…