He’s the used car salesman who hems and haws and has damp, gross hands that he keeps patting you with while his manager glares from his office

Answers from the owner of a 2013 Volt:

I still have this book. I’ve lovingly carried it with me every time I’ve moved and it always occupies a place of honor on the bookshelf. The dust cover is a little frayed around the edges but in remarkable condition for how damn old the book itself is.

I just now stumbled upon this take. For what it’s worth (I’m white and therefore lack a grounding in the experience that is being black in American culture) something about your commentary just feels right.

“fOr wHeN tHe wIfE lEtS mE oN tHe gOlF cOuRsE, aM i rIgHt fElLas”

“generous 10% tip” is pure poetry right here

I’m somehow not surprised that Candy Mountain is actually located in California.

“Your soul is an appalling dumpheap, overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable...mangled up, in tangled up knoootttttssssssss-”

EVs have a weight penalty but they’re not enormously removed from their ICE counterparts. Since road wear increases with the square of vehicle weight, the majority of wear comes from commercial trucking and other vehicles well above the weight of consumer vehicles.

I read the headline as “EVs will leave a hole in Texas.”

Mercedes divorcing me was the best thing they’ve ever done.

So there’s no room for Trump to pull them further right.

Reminds me of one of the best lines from Flintlocke’s Guide to Azeroth:

May I humbly proffer:

“I’m holding out for a Don’t Tread on Me sticker in which the snake’s pattern is a thin-blue-line flag and maybe the snake is arranged in the outline of a Punisher skull.”

Honda did the same thing with the Clarity. It’s maddening. 

“Diesel Kiki:” quaint, Miyazaki-esque, with a touch of nostalgia for a world that has passed

“take it how you want, but that sure reads that she would like to stop air travel”

Now I’m curious! I haven’t driven a Leaf, but our household has a Volt (1st-gen) and a C-Max (hybrid, non-Energi). I’ve noticed “L” mode in both seems to simulate engine braking, like you mentioned, but the Volt’s is more aggressive than the C-Max has. (Not sure if the Energi’s “L” mode is tuned differently or not.)

Real men drive the FWD model from 1769!