oh no, do people like something that you don’t?

price alone suggests there’s actually a significant fanbase for these. people like different things! you don’t have to dig Hondas, that’s fine, but stop acting like nobody else does either. They’re wildly popular.

I’m intending to sleep in the 740 Turbo for a few weeks in July; I’ve heard the wagon has fold-flat rear seats. If not I’m screwed...

I’d kill for one of those road blankets, they look wonderfully warm and comfortable.

100% this. Don’t spend the money to run it in two plants. Just run it in one.

Oh, you’re falling behind because the ramp to production hasn’t gone to plan?

All good, just go to three shifts. Run 24/7, round the clock. No problem.

Oh, you’re still struggling to make enough parts?

Just skip scheduled maintenance to catch…

In fairness, my 1992 Ford Falcon GLi had 200hp...

Now that is a game of chicken.

Now that is a game of chicken.

I guess so. It was a desperate atmosphere.

Can confirm a lot of die-cast parts at a certain major automaker are single source. Serious parts, like inverter housings in hybrids.

Excellent post.

Pre-airbag only.

That looks amazing.

Having grown up in Australia, I loved this - particularly the photos of the forest and the Caltex. Not often that I see my country up in lights, so to speak! Digging that regional Australian gothic.

This. It’s like the gauge cluster in the first Tesla Roadsters, completely ruins the car.

It needs to be something awesome. While it may look gaudy in photos, I imagine sitting in there and feeling all the bespoke machined aluminium and real carbon fibre it’s another thing entirely.

Ah yes, we call this the Anti-McParland approach.

Ha! Nah, I don’t really go in for that kind of thing. I’m drinking instant today, it’s swill but it gets the job done.

Say what you like about Elon, he’s not cool.

God, I know right.

I thought Grimes was cool. Not now.

It’s super weird but my ability to detect sarcasm has gotten wayyyyy worse over the last couple years. I’m probably having a realllllly slow stroke.

Absolutely. Someone who is stressed out, busting their ass paying a mortgage and looking after a couple of kids and trying to sell another five i30s this week is in no way going to have that cool, relaxed, professional demeanour that someone pulling in fat commission checks on luxobarges can muster.

If the studs were I could buy that. Nuts not so much.

In a vacuum, sure. But Uber lowering the effective “wage” so low makes it impossible for transport services paying a fairer wage to compete, thus making conditions worse for all workers in the sector.