I have plenty of issues with Tesla, both with the company and with the vehicles they sell, but even I will give basically unreserved kudos to them for how they have handled the Supercharger network.

Does Toyota still sell any stick shift vehicles capable of putting a child in the back seat?

To be fair, you could probably fit your car in the bed of my truck.

$5.59/$5.89/$6.19 here in the Midwest. Luckily they seem to have relaxed the $100 credit card limit before you need to reswipe. I haven’t found the new limit yet, but I’m sure I will once I need to fill my truck and its 48 gallon tank up again. 

Remember, the median age of a new car buyer is in their mid 50s.

Maybe stick to HVAC then?

and can turn on the vehicle, start the HVAC system and open the windows to prevent suffocation.

It’s presumably easier to hide it this way. How many price increases has Tesla passed through the last year or two? I’ve lost track.

What an odd thing to say.

Watch out, they will probably put you in the grays for this heresy.

Translation: “We see those fat markups dealers are making on our stuff, and we want to be the ones gouging the customers”

I do wonder if the nostalgia for the Blazer name is maybe not what we think it is. Most car buyers probably think first of the thoroughly mediocre S10 Blazer of the 90s-00s rather than the K5s of a half century ago. In that case, the current offering is exactly what I’d expect a successor to be.

It’s not unlike what happened to Chevy’s old off-road darling, the Blazer. What was once a big, heavy, body-on-frame ‘froader is now just another compact crossover

As a Ford owner, I already know the “post warranty experience” is going to be stuff like oil change and tire discounts they provide in the points-based system in their app. Only valid through dealer service departments of course.

The idea, which becomes worse and worse every year, that corporate Twitter accounts should, nay, must weigh in on every social issue of our time is both meaningless and idiotic.

Very sorry to see you go, your enthusiasm and passion for cars always shone through in your writing, which is sadly rare in this business.

I wonder if California has a good record with developing rail infrastructure?

So the plan instead is what? Just let more trucks idle on the crowded freeway instead? I’m sure that will do wonders for air quality in the community.

Instead of paying to check a bag, we should now have to pay to stow a bag in the overhead bin.

That, and you can’t have much fun in a 17-feet-long vehicle that carries eight people.