This is the kind of progress the segment needs - Taycan-type tech in a $40k vehicle.  Not another $100k+ toy for the wealthy.  

Yeah the Kia looks pretty sharp, but I like to see out my rear window. 

“Tell us some stuff and we’ll put it in a slide show!”

I’m not saying they can’t be enjoyable, I’m just saying that isn’t a reason to go find a food truck (or wagon).

Donuts re-warmed in a toaster oven certainly doesn’t sound that great.

Rob - 1987 should be 1997.

I grew up in Upstate NY, where we got lake effect snow all the time. You don’t need AWD. I didn’t even have snow tires and did fine. One caveat is a set of OEM Firestones I had on a Honda that were just awful. I couldn’t get going in an inch of snow on a slight incline. Ditched the Firestones though and I was back in…

They do. Moved here from NY thinking taxes were lower. Then I got to pay every six months to have a Civic garaged here. Really discourages me from buying a new car too because my taxes would go up.

Screw the diesel dually, I changed my mind.  Eldorado it is!

Oh come on, I’m sure someone shopping for a Bentley Mulsanne is going to come across this and be absolutely interested.

Reminds me of one of the pieces here where I think Ferrari obtained a carve out from Italian EV mandates...or something like that. The Jalopnik writer was appalled, like Ferraris aren’t a picoliter drop on the bucket of emissions.

Johnny Tran has a $100k electric conversion under the hood of his S2000.

Yeah I’ll give no-name tires a pass on some $3k beater car. This is a a $50k car, that used to be a $150k car, that can go almost 200 mph.

The number of people who 1) Can spend $50k on a “toy” and 2) Would spend that $50k on a 14 year old Bentley has to be pretty small.

Well I was about to say Tire Rack doesn’t sell crap like these, but then I check their site and see they sell Nexen, so maybe standards are slipping over there.

I had to zoom in to figure out what I was looking at when it wasn’t “Michelin”, “Goodyear”, “Pirelli”, etc.

I mean these are the opposite of effort to begin with.

A buddy of mine back in the day wanted a RSX w/ a manual. So he got one, even though he didn’t know how to drive it. He figured it out pretty quickly although of course hills took a while to be comfortable on.

Are they going to give me three years for $1 on top of my PS Plus sub? I mean that is what got me to try GamePass - why not right? Now I’ve been paying to extend it.

Instead of sheets of plywood, lets measure how many bottles of NOS can you fit in the back of a flareside pickup.