More like a hybrid. I own the first gen and I’ve heard the new one got a new transmission so the new one might not be like this, but with mine when the battery drains down the engine turns on and starts charging the battery. The wheels are driven by the electric motors and the engine sits there as a generator. It took…

The only problem with the concept behind this article is that at this point the Prius is pretty far down the scale in terms of efficiency these days. The Volt just won green car of the year and compared to the plugin Prius goes a good 43 miles on EV than the current PIP and will still go almost 20 more than the new…

I don’t love it enough to spend 15k+...

It looks virtually the same as their current models. Whoopee.

Eh... whatever. I’d rather watch docile cars myself.

Seeing all of the weird cars you tend you post I’d thought you’d be absolutely ga-ga over this thing. Honestly I think its a great idea. And if priced at that level- even better. Also- its a prototype and not a ready-to-produce model. So of course you’re gunna’ see stuff like a bent dipstick and so on. Surprise…

I seem to recall that the battery in these are air cooled. If so that’s the quickest way to degrade a battery than anything.

But Lexus didn’t exist as a standalone division. Lincoln did and made lots of really glitzy, gynormous, luxurious land yachts in the past and that is the legacy many associate with the Lincoln brand. While the strategy of “doctoring up” Camrys might work for Lexus the same isn’t really true for Lincoln: when I see a…

That makes sense given that it seems that I seem to see an awful lot of newer Mercedes where if the car hasn’t been washed in a long time you can see this sort of “smudge” of carbon residue coming up around the rear bumper.

I haven’t been a huge fan of Mazda styling but this looks pretty sharp. Remove the badge and it looks like an Audi actually

Well they were put together in the EU anyway so maybe there were no import fees

... Because it's a Chrysler...

And that’s probably one of maybe 2 total crossfires in all of the EU too. Must be a unicorn sort of thing to see over there,

Bunnies!

Personally I think vodka tastes like crap. Not sure why I wanted to mention that...

I don’t love it. But if it had an Audi badge everyone would be ooohing and awwwing. It has “badge disease”.

I don’t have questions but instead armchair commentary. While I can’t back this statement up with specifics to me there is hardly a single model that Nissan sells in the US that actually excites or interests me. There is something about the overall design language of their models that feels tired and uninspired. My…

I am not going to bother reading your post as I am quite sure it simply repeated what you believe to be true and what I have repeatedly told you I disagree with and do not, and will not believe as being true. I am not going to repeat myself.

You are basically more or less repeating yourself. I’ve looked at the budget many times and the current share of the pie for defense is in and around 55% of the total. If your entire argument is about having a permanent industrial military complex- the kind that Eisenhower warned about- as being the one way to the…

I agree with the sentiment of others here: the grill on the Lincoln looks like a jaguar grill. That said, it's not a bad looking car. In fact I actually see a fair amount of newer Lincolns here and around the Bay Area and people here are pretty snotty about their cars. So they must be doing something partially correct