OK, no offense, but where did this Frank Stephenson appear from all of a sudden? Sure, he seems to have been involved in some important design projects, but “legendary”? Now, I’ve been following car reports since the early 80s, and the first time I heard of Mr. Stephenson was very recently when he started commenting…

I get that tesla has a cult like following with some, and Elon has plenty of indefensible statements, but all car enthusiast circles are just as dumb with the groupthink. I’d take obnoxious Tesla owners that try to make the planet more hospitable over the toxic masculinity truck bro that wants to poison your air any…

This is such a YMMV thing, kind of like the “are turbo braps good” debate of the previous gen. Yes, FE cars (and the ID.R) are quieter, but see them driven in anger and they are far from silent. And the sounds you can hear UNDERNEATH the motor whine—the squeal of the brakes, the thump of the suspension, you can get a…

I don’t think BMW has learned everything there is to learn from Formula E so much as BMW is just outrageously, intensely, staggeringly arrogant. I’m not sure why this is since their cars, while excellent in many ways, are not particularly better than plenty of other offerings at comparable price points.

(looks at state of BMW’s electric car offerings)

No they haven’t. 

BMW says it has learned everything?

But, if you actually read the article, it isn’t a weird complaint, because the series takes place in Montana, where female disappearances and murder victims are disproportionately indigenous women, but the show only shows white victims. If it were set in a different part of the country there wouldn’t be a problem, but…

Not intentionally, but you *are* erasing an important factor in many of those stories.

Its not about A missing white lady, its about many murdered and missing women. In Montana. Where many more murdered and missing women are Indigenous.

It’s true. I’m enjoying the show (though this Tuesday’s episode wasn’t much more than a placeholder), but compare this to Yellowstone and it’s a total white wash. 

No, it’s like if The Wire was about a bunch of all-white gangs hustling drugs on the mean streets of Baltimore.

2nd:

At this point, there’s almost no reason left to not require vehicles to be hybrid at least. Batteries have gotten smaller and cheaper, and the price premium has shrunk dramatically. A standard Honda Insight LX is about $22,631 where the Civic LX is $20,916 (true car average prices). They’re almost identical in…

1st Gear: “The fact that we announced … that we’ll have 30 vehicles by 2025, two-thirds of them in the United States, and a goal to have over a million, it’s not window dressing,”

1st Gear: Corporations donate to both sides all the time, they gotta grease all the bits.

1st Gear: I think we can cut Mary Barra some slack here. Her job is to advocate for what’s good for GM, period. She is going to saddle up with whoever is in office out of sheer pragmatism.

As has been alluded to elsewhere, the problem here is almost universally that people have the settings on their displays set to absolute garbage, so when you try to calibrate software against it you end up with this insane gamma curve with crushed blacks and all other sorts of unsightliness because the default…

There’s nothing wrong with incentives, if they’re used properly and are time-boxed. The problem in the US isn’t the incentives per se, its the toxic lobbyist and corporate political contribution culture that ensures once you have them, politicians are incentivized to keep them. The US suffers from regulatory capture…

By answering the question that was asked of him, and doing so in a reasonable manner?

Obviously the ghetto and the armbands, along with the German or Slavic names for all the characters, are obvious references to the Holocaust. However:

This is a hot take that is not supported by the content in the series, or the story it is trying to tell.