Cars have always been a commodity.  And certainly a mass produced one for the last 120 years.

How does that make him right? A car having “soul” doesn’t make it better. You might like it more. It might be more fun to drive. You might even spend a lot of money on it. But those are hardly realistic metrics for quality. 

My ex’s Dad had one of those - but the wagon, with a massive CB antennae on it. Drove all over Southern Ontario in it listening to lectures about how great cottage country is, and why the GTA is the ‘real Canada’. To this day seeing one triggers what one might call an emotional response.  Fortunately not many remain.

But he wasn’t really saying that right? He seems to be saying it ‘wasn’t ready’, or that it wasn’t (yet) working like it should or that he didn’t trust the operations crew. It doesn’t sound like he felt there was a fundamental design flaw that would inevitably lead to the subs destruction and that the thing should…

I’m genuinely kind of surprised that:

Someone needs to take about a hundred of these to some small south Pacific Island and arrange them in lines to really confuse archaeologists 500 years from now.

Interactivity with your readership isn’t a bad thing - and there are new articles uploaded all the time, too. in terms of formatting, I guess you could just have one long list that requires scrolling, but I’m not sure I’d find that any more useable than clicking.

I mean, he keeps calling with driver assist package “Full Self Driving”, or whatever. So, it shouldn’t be surprising.

I don’t understand the dislike for slideshows.  How did these people manage when you had to turn actual pages?

I mean, she has real life experience.  It shouldn’t be surprising that she can jump start a car.

I can only imagine that Elon, as the son of a South African emerald mine owner, and expert in monetizing the genius of others and marketing it as his own, is deeply threatened by Taylor Swift - a Billionaire that has actually earned her money with her own hard work.

Such a tough question. I get the idea of doing it in something small and sporty - but I think versatility is more important. You could conceivably come across all sorts of weather (case in point, on our last road trip - WRX as a car - we went from +30 C in eastern Washington to around 0 C going over the Coquihalla…

The answer is a new Subaru WRX - I think one’ll come in around $30k US. It’ll do everything he needs it to. We have one - and a 5 year old - and it just did a 2000 km road trip with ease. It handles a SUP or two with a roof rack, and the rear cargo area is actually really big - takes more stuff than a lot of…

Live here - and incredibly stoked to see it up close. I’ve only ever appreciated it from a distance at it’s original location up island. Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to see it come in - but it’s going to be a hell of a cool display on land.

The only part I might disagree with is FWD. I can think of a few good FWD sports cars that fit the proper definition. The Lotus Elan M100 springs to mind. As does the Alfa Romeo GTV.

Acura TL?

I’ve said it before on here - but it’s worth repeating. The Honda Element.

Yep - if someone happened to be able to snag the new Prius Prime - I’m jealous of them.  Would have been my next car, but for the year+ waiting list.

Nothing a little antibiotics won’t solve.

Was going to say exactly this.  Say what you will about Subarus - in my experience, they’re all over the place where people are doing genuinely ‘outdoorsy’ things - trail running, hiking, surfing, SUPing, mountain climbing, etc.  And for all the reasons you mention - they’re agile, reliable, capable vehicles with as…