“I’m going to pay for this house the same way I paid for lunch. Pretty simple, really.”

Tesla is the apple of car brands at this point. Its customers are not interested in a quality product, they want the optics of fitting into a certain socio-political group. The model 3 is like a cheap iPhone, it is for the people who want to be part of that group of ideologues but cannot really afford to be and are…

How much you want to bet that “most satisfying” list overlaps with the “most smug owners” list pretty constantly.

It’s like an Apple product - the entire sales pitch is that you buy it, then you’re incredibly pleased with yourself.

Nah, fuck all that.
I’m an ass, and the rules, in my opinion, apply to every one.

The rules should be iron clad, and simple.

Top three cars drive straight to the inspection garage, exit the vehicle, and go to the press conference. There, they can talk about the immediate experience of the race, thank their endless list…

You can be an old-fashioned, big-government leftie and be sceptical about the EU. Some of the issues I have with the EU:

Well they don’t get told how to run their own immigration / security system. They also don’t have to keep funding Greece and Spain.  

It’s bonkers. Distracted driving is a serious problem and manufacturers seem hell bent on cramming these low angle interfaces into the car and even moving common controls into software. It’s going to take some bad collisions to get them to knock it off.

Neutral:

“I wonder what confluence of events really took off in the 80's that allowed factories to drastically increase production while reducing workforce” he typed into his computerized device made by offshore labor with onshore management.

The E-type isn’t exactly the best example in this scenario...

If we stick with his naming scheme, it would be the Fraptor and driven exclusively by women named Becky who “can’t even” if Starbucks makes their double shot venti caramel iced coffee with hazel butternut cream slightly too cold.

I, for one, would be tired of my country being run by edicts from Brussels. The idea of EU was good but like everything when Central Planning gets their hands on it it all goes to shit.

It’s Trump’s fault people buy crossovers and trucks?

While I’m here, why can’t we click on the notification of a reply to something we posted and get taken there anymore? It’s a pain in the butt to have to go find our post so we can converse. 

Raph, have you considered the possibility that Brookes was more interested in pointing out the changes that were being made to the nature of rallying – irrespective of the kind of cars? One might argue that the present format has more to do with a rallysprint than with old-style rallying.

AWD all the things.

Today’s power output has passed functional and legal use and is now just a brand peen measurement:

“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible…

I stand corrected. I think I joined the first and second in my memory. Although at today’s novel lengths Frank Herbert’s original series could fit in a modern trilogy. And in a just world Brian Herbert’s continuation would fit in a landfill, incinerator or other appropriate place.