I’m pretty sure the C-17 they’re using to haul the car to and from London is using just a bit more energy than the refrigerator.

In a manufacturing environment where most brands can’t even keep up with the orders they already have it’s not surprising that they aren’t bothering with promotion.

“...trying to eke every last dollar out of their winged investments...”

Why are you writing about this as if it was new? Wagoneer has a history of being more of a sub-brand than a single model. Back in the ‘80s there was a full-size luxury Grand Wagoneer and a compact Wagoneer Limited, which was based on the XJ Cherokee.

Counterpoint: “Rover” wasn’t exactly a hot nameplate either, and we see where that’s gone.

True, but that’s not all that they were doing. In addition to just alerting the officer that a car was stolen or had an expired registration, the reading was being stored. The justification given to the public was that the data could be used in any number of other, undefined investigations at any time in the future.…

Like Vermont...

This isn’t just a Florida issue. They’ve recently cut back, but for quite some time Vermont State Police (along with a bunch of local agencies) were using automated license plate readers on their cruisers to log the time and location of every car they passed. All with zero transparency or accountability about how long…

I feel like the odds depend on whether it’s their weekend with the Netflix crew.

Adaptive cruise has been a major blood pressure reducer for me. I live in an area with a lot of b-roads where passing opportunities are rare, and the speed limit changes every few miles. Getting stuck behind someone who isn’t maintaining a constant speed used to be stressful. Now, I just push the button and chill out.…

I have the same car, and what I did was get a small two-channel universal remote and stick it to the bottom of the EyeSight pod with some adhesive velcro. I had the Homelink mirror in my last car, and while the buttons were nice the auto-dimming wasn’t very effective.

With 9,000 passengers plus crew, the odds of someone getting onto that boat with norovirus starts to approach certainty.

It’s just a big shed. The engineering isn’t really any different or more impressive. All you have to do is move some decimal points around, particularly on the budget.

He’s not known as Max Crashstappen for nothing...

The Chevy Euro Sport trims come to mind.

The manual is only available on the Base and Premium. And the Limited also gets bigger wheels and functioning headlights, making it arguably sportier than the Sport.

There’s also the Jeep convention of “Sport” being the base model.

But the Limited has the 2.5L as well.

The worst thing about the Prius was that it ruined hybrids. Objectively speaking, a sub-compact is about the worst application for a hybrid system, as it requires the largest marginal cost increase for the smallest marginal efficiency gain. But that’s what Toyota went with, and leaned into it so hard it cemented the…

Wired FM modulator. After living through every possible gadget to connect aux lines to old radios, this finally did it right.