assuming the frame isn’t rusted out and the engine/trans is not in need of major work, then this is a solid TEOTWAWKI vehicle at a NP.

old enough to be easy to fix, new enough that parts should be easy to find in the burned out husks of autoparts stores after the apocalypse.  enough capability to carry your family,…

they saw what happened with ODB II and swore NEVER AGAIN and immediately put anything that wasn’t explicitly required to be defined in a standard way into security through obscurity format and then started charging out the ass for the translator modules.

for those of us without the internet equivalent of verbal diarrhea... what is the difference between a tweet and a promoted tweet?

no. not ever. $2k? maybe.

do they have QC issues and design flaws? yes. is Elon a douche? yes.

whole story about photo, without even link to said photo.

“In his initial review, Jalopnik’s own David Tracy bemoaned the lack of stability on the two-door Bronco. ”

uh, has he ever driven a Wrangler 2 door?  ever heard of death wobble?  saw one just the other day on its side in the middle of a 4 lane road.  driver turned left into a car in his blind spot (across a solid…

money laundering.. it is really good for that.

VSC is most helpful in controllable situations for people who don’t actually know how to drive, like, you know, 90+% of america..... but for when shit is really going sideways it helps everyone..

VSC saved my buddy and his family’s lives. was driving ~65 mph down the parkway on in a massive downpour, chucklehead…

but only because it is so old that it predates the microchip.

/only a little /s

the W8 makes a lot of sense for Audi and their longitudinal engine configuration keeping it a lot shorter than a traditional V8.

can’t have a tesla article, especially one pointing out their success without also shitting all over them.

just once I would like to see an article about Tesla on Jalopnik that didn’t throw in gratuitous insults.

disclaimer: I don’t and likely never will own a Tesla and am not a particular Tesla fanboi, although I do…

seatbelts and airbags also had step change impacts on fatality (and injury) rates, but not on overall accident rates. if you tease apart accidents per million miles and injuries/fatalities per 100k accidents the different effects of ABS, VSC, Airbags and Seatbelts (and seatbelt laws) become apparent. VSC has, in…

if you look at accident statistics, there are significant step change improvements in accident rate & fatalities with the introduction of ABS and VSC.  lane keep assist not so much.  automated braking it is too early to say (not enough data/too much variability in systems and activation parameters)

BACK THE BLUE!!!!!!! /s

ACAB /not s

is this rerun day?  first the fraudulent plane crash rerun and now this....

none of them were wrong.  except _maybe_  the printing press.

uh, that’s the 2.8 liter 60 degree V6 not the glorious Iron Duke 4.

I love that not only can they fine tune the aim of each mirror individually to the nanometer level, but they can also control the curvature.

the quality focus on this puppy ought to be pretty amazing. they are talking not just about focus of individual mirrors but also aligning the wavelength propagation as it reaches…

that’s an MRAP.  as seen in Bagdad.