1. If you think you’ve seen overcapacity for electric cars now, even in China, just wait till everyone else brings theirs to market. The slump will be, uh, revolting.

2. Executives with Y-UUUU-GE personalities that run companies based on personality usually can’t be replaced. Long-term is not good.

5. Give it a few…

The “hybrid” car is the 8-track tape of the automotive past. The Lithium-ion battery powered car is the cassette tape. We’ve yet to see what the Compact Disk is.

Equally fascinating is that an old US Navy base was located in the mountains of landlocked West Virginia.

Absolutely. But if one is concerned about “money lost,” whatever that means, why stop at Uber? Maybe you should throw in Macy’s, Sears/Kmart, JCPenney, or that company that still can’t make money called, uh...what’s it’s name with the all the fan boys waiting inline to fellate the founder...or yeah, Tesla! That’s it.…

Hey Buddy. It was quite a bit more than “anecdotally.” Try two distinct groups of parents, 300 in number each group, and helping them make decisions about “where to send their precious children to college.” Now, if you’re even remotely familiar with the “most acceptable” practices of this behavior, you’ll discover…

Oh that’s easy. I resided in a tony suburb of New York City for 12 years where they take enormous pride in their diversity. Because I did a lot of volunteer work in the schools, I got to know a LOT of parents. For them, a “road-trip” went as far as D.C. or Boston, or maybe the Cape (Cod). That was it. You’re talking…

Comparing Uber to mass transit is an apples to oranges situation. But if you must compare apples to oranges, let’s at least put both fruits in similar boxes.

Tally up the first five years of losses for any mass transit system. Adjust those numbers for inflation. Now, just for fun, extrapolate how many years the mass…

Under 15 minutes with a fuel replenish and a range that’s equal to a ICE at a price that’s competitive to an ICE-powered vehicle.

No they won’t. 

Don’t listen to the naysayers. It’s only the cityslickers on the coasts who remain averse to taking road trips. The person who buys a new car today will still have that same car in 11 years. 

I remember when 8-track tapes were the solution. But they were replaced by cassettes, which were replaced very briefly by DAT which was replaced quickly by CDs. Today’s batteries in today’s electric cars are cassette tapes.

Wut? It’s a blog post about an article from Automobile via Motor Authority? 

No. We’ll always have insurance. Robot cars will not be infallible. Pedestrians will still step off curbs, trees will still fall on cars, robot cars will have to make a choice to either hit a pedestrian or a light pole. Insurance will always be with us, and so will the lawyers. 

C-max sounds like a pill to take for prostate issues.

The Honda e is the only electric car I’ve seen that guns my motor.

My brother still has my mom’s 1975 Cutlass. It takes as much floor space in his garage as his F150. 

Well, since I’m a car guy, and I’m old enough to be your dad, and since my parents bought one of these in 1975 for my mom to drive, and since my brother still has this piece of junk, please, allow me to share some Oldsmolore.

My parents bought a 1975 Cutlass Salon from an Oldsmobile/Volvo dealer in central Illinois. It…

I love this. It’s all things Saab. Weird color? Check. Weird interior color? Check. Inca wheels? Check. Weird provenance? Check.

I’m really glad I don’t live close enough to see it up close. I don’t need another car. 

“Brazilian Corolla” sounds like a hair cut you haven’t heard about until you go to a strip club.

I’m old enough to remember Perot’s message. His choice of VP candidate turned out to be unfortunate as Admiral Stockdale’s opening statements in the VP debate came across as loopy. However, a Perot/Stockdale ticket makes today’s crop of politicians seem bat-shit crazy, which they are.