As much as I love the shooting brake style, that greenhouse addition over those massive rear fender flares just looks dinky.

And that’s the point of flooding the field with lies. It’s not to make you believe the lies. It’s to make you doubt everything said by everyone else.

The associated email isn’t a problem for me. That’s what burner accounts are for.

The Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL has a Dymaxion on display. Very cool to see one in person, but it’s smaller than I imagined it to be from pictures.

It can get complicated in large cities that have multiple rules restricting when and where you can park. Chicago, for example, has both snow season restrictions and street cleaning restrictions. And then there are hourly changes about whether you have to pay to park, and some neighborhoods where you need a parking…

If he couldn’t make the trip for some reason, at the very least he could have found a buyer’s agent to check out the vehicle and arrange for shipping to San Diego. And put the payment into an escrow account pending verifications.

There was a great link from one the posts here (probably in the comments so I can’t find it) about CDK pursuing the corporate goal of becoming not just ‘Too big to fail’, but to become ‘Too big to jail’. Excellent read about the steps CDK took to first become a near monopoly through acquisitions, then fail to…

I take it farther back. If you deny the results of elections without any substantiated proof, you no longer get to participate in elections.

A potential solution for that is to go somewhere that remote work is all but impossible because it lacks robust internet access. Caribbean islands and rural locations are examples.

My problem with vacations is that they’re not really vacations from my work. I’m just pushing work to before or after I’m gone since no elves come in and take care of my work while I’m gone. I haven’t had an actual vacation since I moved from hourly to salaried employment.

Absolutely. The wife and I visited Beaver Creek in CO in the fall one year. The aspens were in glorious color and no crowds at restaurants. The cherry on top was a classic car show where rich dudes brought out their exotic toys, something they would never do in winter.

Battery swapping was proposed by A Better Place, and tried out in Israel. It was not successful. As others have pointed out, it requires some level of standardization among manufacturers, which is possible but not easy. The concerns about battery quality was a non-issue for BP since their model had you renting…

No one works harder for their money than someone who marries it.

How hard is it to look at the title of a post and determine that something political is being discussed, and to skip over that post if you don’t want to be presented with a political opinion or statement on an automotive blog?

I agree, the best buyer for this car would be Ford, just to put it in their collection.

I applaud whoever it was that got this post approved, misguided and strange as it might be

One problem is they generally disconnect the system once they’re ready to push back

Seriously, do they not have an English speaking consultant around?

I always wondered just what happened to make him withdraw. Was there an incident with someone? Did something with the cancer treatment trigger it, a la Howard Hughes?