gm sold 20k bolts and everyone on staff routinely says it sucks and is a complete failure for looking boring, but if ford sells ‘even close’ to 50k (i.e., maybe half that? say, closer to 20k?) it’ll be a ‘raging success.’ good take Read more

hi tom miss u Read more

long live kavi Read more

my good pal zac owns a ford flex and it’s an absolute joy to ride around in. love a flex Read more

what a song Read more

bought my ‘96 chevy cavalier for $900, sold it for $500 so i guess that, cheaper than the yugo Read more

I don’t, at all. I think the unspoken point across the industry is that, if carmakers actually wanted autonomous cars to work, you’d have to ban driving. No one wants to broach the subject because it’s much easier for auto execs to coo about the *possibilities* of AVs. Read more

Tag yourself in the top shot.  Read more

Daily shouting match. Lots of tears.  Read more

They’ve been even-keeled about production targets, and that alone makes me think they’ll launch the Air successfully, if a bit slower than expected.  Read more

what if it’s true tho??????? Read more

Dumb screw up on my part. Thanks for pointing it out.  Read more

oh man! i wish i’d thought of that beforehand! Read more

definitely calling him mick henceforth Read more

Fine fine fine fine fine Read more

It wasn’t even a relevant point to my post. Ballaban took a point I made as an example to illustrate that I enjoy driving long periods of time, and misconstrued it to suggest that I believed this was a trip “across the country.” This is not the case. But I think it’s clear I drove “across” part of the country, anyway.  Read more

It’s nearly 50 percent of the length coast-to-coast!!!!! Read more

I want to raise two points.

i mean, fair point. but, damn. a Read more

it happened east of legion, though. why would you over drive the green that badly  Read more