220 miles and a home charger would prevent me suffering from any form of range anxiety.

The 2 door blazer was rated the worst car for crashes on the road at the time. In a side impact serious injuries and death were all but assured. They were literal death traps.

you conveniently elide how much safety has improved. Im not saying i love how cars look today and i very much admire many cars from my youth but they were also mostly all death traps. 

Except that weight is not at a complete loss. Generally the bigger battery allows more regen and thus more efficiency. And also it allows faster discharge, thus quicker car.

I’m convinced that there are 3 types of VW’s:

The Model 3 isn’t a racecar it’s a mid priced EV.

A few years ago my response would have been “yeah but how long can the Tesla keep it up?” I remember being really disappointed that the Model S couldn’t even do one hot lap of VIR without going into limp mode.

I’m with you, too. I actually started a lengthy reply to the OP that was excessively cranky but decided not to post it. My biggest problem is that the guy isn’t even in a relationship yet, and he’s thinking about what car he’s going to pass down to his kids? Meanwhile, the bloggers are suggesting cars that are…

We were involved in a crash Thanksgiving weekend that if it weren't for modern safety equipment my kids could have been injured and almost certainly would have been orphaned. I'm side-eyeing the fuck out of anything without a recent 5 star crash rating. Do I really need two 70s era pickups?

My GF plugs her car in every night when she gets home. He office is about a mile away from her house, so she rarely ever has the gas engine running day-to-day, even when she has to run errands around town. Oddly enough, she uses more gas in the winter because it’s the fastest way to warm up the car and get heat. She…

But on another note, holy shit, the racing world is about to be turned upside down with Model 3s running circles around highly modified cars soon. They have SO much power (and now power dynamics that hugely aid the driver in the form of “track mode”) they can compensate for the weight and lack of refinement.

OK it wasn’t just me. The flares and wheel setup are bugging me, and I can’t put my finger on exactly why. The flares don’t work for me and there’s something else about the wheel fitment that is bothering me.

A $1200 Miata is a good car to learn to race with. As you learn the cornering and braking race line technique you will be able to blow by most cars on the entrance to the corners. It’s embarrassing getting passed by a $1200 Miata on track day!

They could bring in the current-gen GTE with minimal effort but I’d bet market research showed it would be unprofitable even at the minimal cost it would take to certify.

VAG already makes this as the Golf GTE in Europe, which they’ve decided not to bring to the US. I’m willing to bet that the next generation won’t make it here as well — the small numbers that the Golf E compliance car sells in indicates that Americans probably don’t want electrified hatchbacks (or really any…

I work for a major battery company. They recycle batteries on site. It’s a pretty interesting process. They take the batteries and run them through an industrial shredder, separating the lead, plastic and acid. They’ll take the lead to the smelter and reprocess it into large ingots to go back into the production of…

This is literally the dumbest thing I’ve read in months.

If the Golf Alltrack is a wagon, then so is this (and I refuse to call my XC70 a crossover, so it’s also a wagon):

I like it, and that makes me sad.

2 mpg is a 12% improvement. a 2 mpg increase on a Prius would be insignificant, but on gas-guzzling trucks, 2 mpg saves a lot of gas.