Because it is a poorly engineered car. Read more

It still looks like Hello Kitty strapped to the roof of a bullet train. Read more

I'm always a proponent of seconds chances, given the gratuitous amount of stupid shit I did when I was a teenager and now being a relatively well adjusted taxpaying member of civil society. However, I'm not big on fourth chances, especially given the circumstances. Maybe when he's 30. Read more

I don't grammar check my internet comments; I feel like it is a waste of time. Of course, so is commenting on the internet. Read more

You are referencing an infographic with information obtained from a random internet survey, and then using that information to be a condescending internet dickbag. I assure you, based on actual automotive company research that I have personally been a part of (and lots that I haven't), aesthetics is a huge criteria… Read more

There is a huge amount of energy involved when a car hits a stationary object at 5MPH, so having the car bounce off without damaging more than a cheap consumable bumper blade is going to dramatically negatively affect the safety ratings from crash tests (low speed frontal, offset frontal, deformable barrier, Ped Pro,… Read more

Looks like Hello Kitty strapped to the roof of a bullet train. Read more

I got Scott Speed to sign my American flag at that race. Of course, nobody knows who he is, so it's not so much F1 memorabilia as it is a flag that some dude named Scott wrote on. Read more

Bonus Round: Name these 8 Italian cars.

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My girlfriend goes to Pepperdine and I've never noticed any exotic cars there. Shitloads of 128i's, but I think it's a little too conservative for people to be driving really audacious cars. Read more

You're suggestion is that someone with access to the email accounts of three Tesla employees, including the CEO and a Vice President, compiled these emails, sent them to GCR where GCR agreed to temporarily write a story smearing Mr Drucker (only to change it later), and then had whatever firm runs the TeslaMotors… Read more

I don't see how you can read these documents and come to the conclusion that someone is trying to smear Mr Drucker. It seems like you're taking some random pieces of evidence and coming to an entirely invalid conclusion. I would say, after reading this, that it is likely one of Mr Drucker's friends forwarded the… Read more

I see Mercedes is also pursuing the elusive half B-pillar integrated into the front seat.

Could be worse. You could live in Oklahoma. Read more

He added a plate under the sheetmetal to distribute the force. Making snarky comments can come in handy, but not when you don't bother to read the whole post. Read more

Has anyone bothered to calculate the loads on this? I used some quick math, and assuming 8.8 bolts and a 4g bump, this should be more than sufficient to carry the loads. Read more

You didn't need a physicist for this. I suspect an Sophomore Engineering student is overqualified to debunk these commercials. Read more

If you read the source of the above report, you'll see a list of very positive things about Tesla, but of course Ray cherry picked the two negative things (which were actually misquoted, listen to the conference call). Read more

Ray, I listened to that Tesla earnings call, and double checked it this morning. Green car reports entirely misrepresented what Musk said. He said he didn't want to give cars to journalists until they were as close to production as possible, not perfect. He also said journalists would get to drive the cars at the… Read more