An incredibly high powered pick up, with no weight over the rear wheels?  That doesn’t sound like a good winter vehicle to me, at all.

You’re not sure who actually needs an expedition raptor?

But why would they redirect on the last two films? This is it - they’re going to go out on the same tone that they’ve developed into.  I liked Tokyo Drift quite a lot - but that’s not what the series is even remotely about anymore, and going back there (or, God-knows, to 2F2F) would be incredibly jarring.

The Honda Element is an inspired choice. The chief drawback of that car is it’s mediocre fuel economy. Replace a thirsty engine with an EV power train and you’ve really got something. And, as noted, it’s interior design is basically built for including vast expanses of batteries without significantly impacting…

Are you really not comprehending what I’m saying?  Seriously.  I acknowledge all the math - I’m saying it doesn’t matter because not every government decision needs to be made to extract the greatest possible benefit at the greatest possible efficiency. 

You know someone not sharing our world view doesn’t necessarily make them a troll.  But hey - that’s the low hanging fruit response of the internet world, now.  

The Government can do many, many things at one time. The fact that this is not, and never will be, a major avenue for vehicle electrification is irrelevant - it’s still advances the cause in some respect and it attempts to address a specific concern for specific people.  Gov’t can’t - and shouldn’t, just be in the…

None of this is about ‘simple math’. Governing and policy making is about far more than the immediate, objectively verifiable, consequences of a program that can probably best be described as a trial program to determine how viable and expansive a market might be for EV conversions.

Yes, I agree it’s a problem.

Sometime you do things because it encourages a certain type of behavior that, eventually, will make a difference. Unless you’ve done detailed policy analysis on this proposal and what it’s impact will be - I don’t see how you’re qualified to make a claim that (a) this won’t, ever, make a measurable difference, and…

Why do you think it’s a waste? There are legitimate reasons for the state to be encouraging EV conversions - and yeah, it’s the domain of the rich right now, but for a lot of people this may be enough of an incentive to bite the bullet and do it - particularly where they have a favorite classic that they’ve been on…

Any big luxury land-yacht. I’m thinking particularly about the old Chevys and Cadillacs from the late 50s and early 60s. Big, smooth, cruisers that demand lots of torque and unfussy acceleration on long straight roads. They’re all about calm, relaxed, high speed luxury and that meshes perfectly with modern…

This is exactly it. I love classic cars. Owned a ‘71 MGB that was so analog and purely mechanical that electricity was actively afraid of it. It was definitely not a car I’d take on a modern highway, where it would wage a traffic war against modern SUVs, sports cars and pickups doing 125+ kph in the right lane.... but…

Sounds like we’re getting a pretty good deal on the Turbo S equivalent.  But may no ‘Premium Plus’ trim?  Or maybe we are, and we’ll also get a decent deal on that.  $60 - $80 k on a Mazda still rattles me a bit.  But, my mind is stuck in a world where that price range was where BMW M5s, and Porsche 911s sat (so the…

Isn’t one argument for continuing to ban ‘last tango in paris’ the fact that it quite literally was the filming of a crime - namely the sexual assault of Maria Schneider - based on her comments, and frankly Bertolucci’s own comments, after the fact?

While acknowledging that pricing conversions are not as simple or straightforward as converting from USD to CAD - were we do do that - this is, somehow, a $90 000 CND vehicle. After taxes, fees, and the like, we have now entered the world of the $100k Mazda.

Why hello, there.

All very fair - I was going back and forth a bit between the posts discussing this dive being trivial for a navy diver (agreed... to the extent we can know), and this being trivial for an open water diver (disagree almost without qualification - since search and recovery is inherently tricky) and just making the…

You’re telling me that buying a Miata is something that a man does because he’s worried about his virility or masculinity? I have trouble seeing that. 

Definitely well within the expertise of a navy diver - but definitely not an easy dive because it’s shallow. That’s my only point. Some of my hardest dives (on the west coast, actually) were the shallowest - it’s where buoyancy is hardest to maintain, where currents can be strongest, and where vis can be the most…