The tragedy of this is that this dealer group would probably be far more profitable in the long run if they developed a reputation for dealing with their customers openly and fairly. But, based on my brief and distasteful experience with selling vehicles, the business is focused entirely on how much can be made today,…

I love the camp mascot dog Mucluc. He’s a good boy.

We should do a crowd funding account for this. If you’re willing to put in the time and energy, the least we can do is help pay for it.

“forced to park their cars next to one another, each should be handed a screwdriver...”

Yeah, and the safety system that addresses that is called “parents."

For moment I thought I’d clicked the URL for “The Onion,” and this was one of their satirical articles. Lee Iaccoca tried to tell us this would happen.

In “Red Mars” (an excellent fiction on colonizing Mars) the author depicted Space Shuttle external tanks as reusable modules for living space, storage, etc. With over 130 flights, we could have put a lot of hardware into orbit.

What they should be developing is a small turbine that runs on any hydrocarbon fuel. The turbine, which is optimized by steady-state RPM operation, charges a battery pack, which powers the electric drive motor(s). A turbine can allow the batteries to be much smaller and lighter, gives the option of a variety of fuels,…

The blue and red colors are very attractive, but seem wasted since only the assembly guys will ever see them.

Tesla going to extremes to obtain “free publicity “ seems incongruous with a company that literally has thousands of people standing in line to give them money for a car they haven’t even built yet. Tesla will get all the free publicity imaginable because they continue to change the automobile industry in dramatic,…

I was in Jr. High when Pan Am and Boeing brought the first 747 to Miami. My best friend’s Dad was Dade County commissioner, and he took the two of us to the ribbon cutting ceremony and on the inaugural demo flight. Now we’re both about to retire. I wonder how many billions of miles and millions of passengers those…

VW has had their ass sliced, diced, and handed to them by numerous parties for breaking pollution laws. Looks like the Diesel Bros are in for a small-scale version of the same thing.

One of the most remarkable things about this case and others like it is that Tesla is engaging with their customers directly when these crashes occur, and frequently doing it publicly. I can’t recall Ford, GM, FCA, etc. ever doing this...unless they were forced to by court order.

I hope nobody in the NFL sees this.

You’re absolutely right; carpet in cars sucks. The Honda Element I owned came with a nifty floor covering that resembled a heavy rubber floor mat used in data centers. It was fairly soft, completely waterproof, and very easy to clean.

Has Yamaha published a list of factory options yet? Particularly those that might aim it toward a sport-touring role vs. a strictly hooligan bike? Luggage and larger windscreen type of stuff.

A Dodge dealer on Merritt Island FL carried these back in the 70's. I had to drive by them on the way to my girl friend’s house. I say “had to” because I would have traded a kidney for one and it physically hurt to see them. There was nothing remotely as cool for sale in a 500- mile radius.

People choose to be celebrities. In doing so, they open themselves to public scrutiny. Being the target of criticism is one of the costs of celebrity.

Obviously it’s conjecture at this point, but I wonder how the charts will look if Corvette does become a $100k rear-engined car in a year or two as some of the journals predict. That seems like it will be a price jump comparable to the 1986/96 increase.

I haven’t turned on my headlights in 8 years. The two Minis I’ve owned in that time do it for me. So do most of the Avis rental cars I use. It seems like a car sophisticated enough to have DRLs and LEDs would have auto headlights as well.