Solid choice.

And not the time to mess around with silly options that are hard to make work. Time is of the essence, and auto Miatas are everywhere and easy to buy.

She wants “fun to drive”. Unless you’re going off the road, that doesn’t meet the definition.

Absolutely so. The terms will already specify that pulling too much excludes the repair from the warranty, but now they have a way to show it. It should be trivially easy for them to look through the logs for overweight events.

People say “save the trees”, but my friend was killed by a tree in high school. They’re sneaky creatures.

Oh. I have not watched a full F1 race for about ten years.

Instead of having them on reduced power, a safety car should see them pit, recharge, and restart.

The energy density of liquid fuels is amazing. An efficient car gets 5L/100km (don’t ask me what that is in cubits per bucket), which means each liter gets you 20km, each 100ml gets 2km, 10ml gets you 200m, and a single *milliliter* gets you 20 meters. That’s 34.6 MJ/liter, which compares to 1MJ/liter for high-quality…

There was a lot of track, and this was a place where Hamilton had made similar overtakes without being squeezed recklessly by his competitors. Bottas was still moving sideways when Russell lost control.

This is a bad take. PHEVs do 90% electric driving while removing any range anxiety, and cost much less than full EVs right now.

Much cooler than friction-braking.

Indeed. The Sienna was just a squashed egg van that wasn’t very good compared to Toyota’s full-sized van.

As a former Hiace and Liteace owner, let me say one thing: the Previa/Tarago was not great.

Am I the asshole?

Gosh that’s good. Roll thunder and ride the lightning.

The first realization I had that my family’s cars sucked was the Ford Cortina we had that dropped rust from the roof every bump it went over. Then there was the Nissan we had that pumped so much smoke that people would honk and yell at us.

If there was a way for these people to “roll electrons” that might make it acceptable. Maybe a Tesla Coil mounted to the tray?

Don’t do it because you’re not an asshole who wants to make other people sick.

Eighteen years ago we were invading Iraq using Hummers, so we could get cheap oil, so we could fill up Hummers. If you had told me then that GM would be selling electric Hummers that had Lamborghini acceleration under twenty years later, I would have been in shock.

Look, if it takes Hummers to get crazy people to buy EVs, I’m all for it.