Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. It took how long for fuel injection to be universally adopted, or at least mandated by law? ABS? Airbags? Hell, seatbelts? “Another 3-5 years.” Shiiiii-et. . . . good luck with that one. Autonomous driving will happen eventually, don’t get me wrong, but unless you had to have your parents…

True, but if Elon has a “vision” than those people damn well follow that vision, hence the Model 3's virtually featureless dash with an overgrown tablet in the middle. Or the “falcon doors” on the X. Or the former NUMMI’s production issues due to him trying to reinvent how you screw together a car. Good idea, bad…

Not sure about moving freight that way but we’re on the same essential page: forget people*. Take my utility idea: we could bury all our electrical and network infrastructure in access tunnels where they’d be sheltered and easily serviced. Here in PA, I’d wager downed trees and squirrels are probably responsible for…

If they stripped it back to the initial aim, namely developing earth-boring technology take can churn out tunnels significantly faster than we can now, it’d probably do fine. I’m 100% behind burying critical infrastructure, be it electrical, network, utilities, etc all the way up to the interstates, especially within…

The ‘Am wasn’t a bad first car, especially when bought “new” (untitled/registered GM press vehicle with 3,000 miles) with a steep discount. Could’ve done a lot worse at nineteen, only dumped it because it was cursed. I got hit three times in that car within the space of a year, including one that occurred two weeks…

Yeah, the water’s so murky it’s not even funny. Out of my four “domestic” cars, half weren’t even made in the western hemisphere.

1999 Pontiac Grand Am - Lansing, Michigan.
2000 Grand Prix GTP - Kansas City, Kansas.
2004 GTO - Elizabeth, Australia.
2015 Jeep Renegade - Melfi, Italy.

according to the Boomer-age unpaid intern we have helping me find morning Blip images in our basement pile of documents

There is a Tegra X2:  it just never made it to anything you’d plug into a TV. IIRC, outside the Jetson development board it’s used as the brains for embedded systems in the automotive space.  Looks like Xavier, the current Tegra SoC is headed the same way.

Probably one of the only seltzer-based drinks I can tolerate.

I think you kinda nailed it with the “watery fruit” remark. It’s cold, unlikely to get you completely hammered and you can pretty much stop, pound one and go back about your business. It’s a solid yardwork beverage. Or when you end up stopped at your…

Wow. You’re not even entertainingly wrong.

That might be the only flaw in this plan. That said, it’s an oddball built on an unloved platform so I can’t see them carrying a huge premium outside of the “I know what I got” set. . .

You’ve got problems? I’ve got solutions.

You’ve gone quirk-blind or your delivery people have good taste. I’ve seen a total of, like, three HHR panel vans in the last decade. I don’t think I’ve actually ever seen an SS version in the wild.

Nope.

Hah, I already mend-milded with The Doug and posted the correct answer.

This is your correct answer. This is the only answer.

Exactly. This would be so much more interesting than, say, doing the same to an (Jaguar) XJ. I guess it really comes down to your pocket book. Average schmoe building it up in their garage for laughs; probably not. Got a lot of coin or need content for your YouTube build channel, here’s your car.

I’ll just go ahead and pipe this.

At half that price, it becomes an interesting LS swap candidate, figure on using an LS3/6L80e. . . . but that’s a lot of brand-new motorcycle I could get for less money out the door.

You know, I’d buy that excuse if a DCT wasn’t essentially a dual-shafted manual with a computer and hydraulic pump bolted on. There literally are DCTs that share their mechanical guts with manuals; see the link below about the C635.

https://www.moparmagazine.com/2015/09/repair-boost-1-2015-issue-4/

Like unrestricted open air on top of the dresser in their air-conditioned college dorm? Conversely, mine did some time in crap entertainment centers with poor circulation* and didn’t die. It was a roll of the dice. Congrats, you got a good one, just like I did. End of story.