I subscribe, and watch all her content as soon as it comes out.

I wonder how many of the fires were set by people who just can’t stand Karen in accounting always talking about her effing Prius?

The captain of the offending vessel has been identified:

It’s 2022. What used to be ‘Cars and Coffee’ is now ‘Automobiles and Autopistols’.

Tesla is like Apple. They are unlikely to field a bottom spec car, because they are looking at the premium segment of the market. So they will leave the low margin vehicle to Nissan or Ford. And, those volume manufacturers are set up to market the volume low margin car successfully.

There is always the possibility that some project manager screwed over a programmer, who took the opportunity to set an interesting parameter before he cleared out his desk.

It’s just not funny.  What they want here is humor.  Not sad truths.

Not personal at all. Just a fact. The average size of the American vehicle mirrors the obesity of the population. Obese vehicles for an obese population. Look at the average size of vehicles in Indonesia or Japan or Chile. Even Australian vehicles are smaller.

Americans are too damn big. And getting more obese by the day.

This is why electric vehicles need to be built with standardized battery size/capacities, and be replaceable. Trying to go integral with the structure and proprietary is a mistake with huge consequences.

You obviously wouldn’t if you already own two things that are also too big.

They are all too damn big.  But the Toyota is cartoonish.

Imma go with Elizabeth on this one. At least about the PHEV part. You will want that in the next few years. One of the vehicles should be a PHEV.

It’s nice to see Toyota follow Ford with a V6 hybrid power train. That makes sense. But it’s too damn big. WAY too damn big. Like they need to redo the whole thing at 7/8 scale.

(What did I just read?)

“..Bonhams, the auction house, estimates that the car will sell for up to $110,000, which is pretty optimistic...”

Perhaps the pole should have been mounted on the hood. At least then, the driver would have been looking in the direction he was going. Putting it on the trunk was just asking for this sort of thing to happen. Poor planning.

Not to take anything away from Loeb, but I think the real story in WRC, is the increase in performance from the hybrid drive trains. In classic racing tradition, I’m hoping this translates into street vehicles utilizing similar technologies. There is just so much potential.

Giving them such ideas could itself be construed as irresponsible.

Much more Lada.  But wouldn’t turn down a date with either.