Right on both accounts. Essentially a Le Mans race car modified for road use.

Gotta be careful not to lump silver and grey together. A good tone of dark grey can look really cool on the right car, silver always seems boring.

Who do I gotta pay off to get some kind of racing series on a street circuit in downtown Chicago? Get some Formula E cars on Lake Shore Drive and Lower Wacker, that would be fun to watch.

He’s putting the GTI in the same class as...literally every car ever made? I would drive anything for free. I would drive my dad’s neighbor’s Geo Metro with a smashed in door for free. Driving is fun, and free is free. That is such a low bar to have as a requirement for a car that is almost universally loved.

This spoke to me:

That “awful gear noise” is what straight cut gears sound like. Because racecar.

I’ll be right next door returning my Fusion.

Came here to say this. Billions won’t be lost, billions in salaries will be paid to engineers by startups that are backed by venture capital firms funded by incredibly wealthy people. Engineers who are middle class (soon to be upper class if their startup succeeds) men and women that will actually spend the money,…

They’re only making 300 of these. From the article:

Jaguar produced 271 of them. Almost as many as this 300 unit run. The original tease Justin linked to stated that this was the most powerful production Jaguar ever, not the fastest. The XJ220 made 540 hp so that would be an accurate statement.

In Chicago it’s been $1 a gallon more for years now. Saw it this week at $1.10-1.20 more at some stations. Had no idea the national average was still that low.

As a recently departed engineer from one of the Big 3 I can tell you that whether or not consumers care about these numbers, the automakers absolutely do. Their entire internal quality reporting system is built to mimic the IQS with more frequent reporting so they can get ahead of the issues.

Counterpoint: It’s either a sedan with more storage space or an SUV with better gas mileage.

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Yes.

Replace Focus with Fiesta or Fusion and you’ve got a point. Current generation Focus is still being built at Michigan Assembly Plant. They haven’t switched over to Ranger production quite yet.

They probably have the capability to send humans to Mars right now. Just have to do the math and be able to accurately point and shoot with enough velocity to escape orbit.

Also I just read his blog post from February where he cites some different numbers in claiming their accident rate is 32% better than the industry average. Doesn’t cite his sources though: https://www.tesla.com/blog/creating-the-safest-car-factory-in-the-world

I was under the assumption they were being propped up by the many millions of dollars that other companies are paying them to shoot their satellites into space.

The injury rate for the motor vehicle manufacturing industry in 2015 was 5.1 injuries per 100 workers, per official BLS data. Page 26: https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/os/ostb4740.pdf