EV owners still go to the gas station though. Watch a popular gas station on any day and you’ll definitely see a number of EVs stop there. They just aren’t buying gas unless it’s for lawn equipment or something.

That is the nature of a fraud, in much the same way that an embezzler always assures themselves they will pay the “loan” back.

Really, it’s not like a Ponzi scheme where you can use some of the money coming in to keep older suckers at bay.

I’m sure he thought he was a genius.

Anything can be made given enough money and time.

It all started because SUVs were considered trucks, so were an end-run around CAFE. Once the ball started rolling, the marketing money started flowing. The guys at the top know exactly what they are doing - they are making money.

They certainly don’t sell when they don’t actually offer them for sale anymore. To pick on BMW as an example - an ‘11 X3 won’t do anything that my ‘11 328i wagon won’t do, and the wagon has more room and rides and handles better. But BMW made MUCH more profit on each X3 sold because they built them in South Carolina…

Footprint-based CAFE should mean wagons are fine now for CAFE purposes. The problem is the sheep have been brainwashed into “big and butch = better” and are willing to pay waaay more money for the butch, so even couple remaining proper wagons like the Volvos and even my beloved Mercedes wagon have the mandatory…

There really was this one shining moment in 2018-20 where the legacy American luxury companies all had something novel in the TourX, Lincoln Conti, and Caddy CT6. If I was shopping for my next car right now, I’d be all over any of these if it were CPO. But I probably won’t be in the market until the newest examples…

This is a car I would have cross-shopped after a long series of Subaru wagons of some variety. Alas, they were discontinued before I could.

I HOPE it’s peaking now. But I have a feeling it’s still going up.

We are in Crossoverification now!

“beginning of SUVification”

The missing windshield means that it is a bird away from causing a major accident. While driving thru Audubon Wisconsin at dusk, I saw the face of the large owl just before he completely spidered the windshield of my I4 hemi power 73 VW Westy. Perhaps their creation shouldn’t even be driven on public roads in the…

I refuse to drive anything that wont pass the broomstick test.

A car for people with more money than sense of self-preservation.

One shunt from the back and he’s either dead or paralysed. Or beheaded if it’s hard enough.

Yeah...about that. “Enemy aircraft bearing civil markings and marked with the Red Cross have recently flown over British ships at sea and in the vicinity of the British coast, and they are being employed for purposes which His Majesty’s Government cannot regard as being consistent with the privileges generally…

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but this seems a bit of a romanticized idea of their mindset. Just considering that most airmen that ended up in the water, from either side, were on their way too or from dropping loads of bombs on cities full of civilians. Judging only by how I would feel about it, I’d hazard a guess…

Days of Thunder > Top Gun