People tell me the Hindenburg was a tremendous, tremendous, beautiful, uh, thing. Just tremendous. And beautiful. Many people have told me this.

We’ve gone from American hot rods to Japanese SUVs? The moons really gone downhill in the last 50 years. It’s a good thing there’s no clouds on the moon to yell at.

This one does it better.

I am sure Toyota will spend a lot of time designing the logo for the grill.  And I might be literally right.

that would have a lunar-surface cruising range of 10,000 km/6,213 miles.

so I have outlined all the stages we need

They’re trying to live up to their slogan:

You go, Toyota!

This seems like an extreme oversimplification of how any of this works.

They just need to resurrect the Top Gear Hilux and send that. Heck, it could probably drive the whole way there.

Toyota is one of the few I would trust for space cars. Some other brands, not so much.

Soccer moms would be all over that if they made an earth version.

I guess Toyota is taking their Space Cruiser nameplate quite literally these days:

He says it often, but he is one of the only people who does. It was done as a form of brainwashing, to make his supporters think every thing he did/does glitters like gold.

I’ll take that bet. EVs may not work for you (for good reasons) but 80% of the global population lives in cities. China alone is buying 160K EVs a month. The EV market CAGR is ~50% per year.

In their early days, having an endlessly optimistic (and wealthy) hypeman with bonkers ideas was a good thing for them. Now, they’re not quite one of the big boys, but they’re big enough that people (read: regulators and investors) pay attention to everything they’re doing, and a guy with bonkers ideas and little…

5th gear: I’m very excited about this initiative. My GTI will be ready to trade in in the 2021-2024 timeframe (depending on how life goes), and their EVs are at the top of my list for replacement vehicles.

That’s why I come here less and less often. Too much editorializing, not enough fact based information presented.  Some of the writers are much better about this than others.

which doesn’t sound excessive if the goal is to have an electric vehicle for each category. Some of their brands don’t have the current output to support 5 or 6 vehicles

5th gear: 70 vehicles across 12 brands is less than 6 per brand, which doesn’t sound excessive if the goal is to have an electric vehicle for each category. Some of their brands don’t have the current output to support 5 or 6 vehicles, so I’m sure it’s not an even distribution. VW and Audi could probably account for 50…