Speaking as a Polestar owner, I think this is a Mercedes of some kind.  GLA, maybe?

Run flat tires on all the cars is a recipe for Altimas Rogues going 90mph on four flat tires.

The 100K figure was just me remembering incorrectly, having been incensed by this when I first heard about it, and then incensed again when I got this year’s renewal bill from the state, where they admitted that they didn’t even know exactly what the amount would be, somehow.

Nevertheless, as you say, at $0.20 per…

Texas already is. There’s now a $200 per year extra charge for registering an EV, ostensibly to replace the taxes that driver isn’t paying on gas. But, if you look at how much those taxes actually are, you’d have to drive something like 100K miles a year in order to actually pay $200 worth.

One assumes that flednoncon is in the US, and in that market, the prices actually are pretty close. The Model is probably cheaper, actually, after tax credits.

It’s priced similarly to other EVs, except for Tesla, which is like $10K less, and offers an arguably better ownership experience for multiple reasons, to include availability of charging and reliability.

You don’t get any sick Insta likes on the easy trails, though, bro!

Valid. But, especially if he’s working on someone else’s research, where he’s not even going to be first author on the paper, he shouldn’t have to provide his own vehicle.

Speaking as someone who does superficially similar field work in Texas, what he really needs to do is to talk to his supervisor about getting access to university vehicles. The importance of this cannot be understated - looking official opens a lot of doors at field sites that would otherwise be 100% closed if you…

It looks like they have a design cue to harken back to that inside the light lenses.  They could maybe stand to make it more obvious, though.

Yeah, but that torsion beam rear axle is a slap in the face from the company that brought us “Zoom zoom!,” and Miatas.

Maybe the older group is oil sheikhs, and the younger group is their kids?

Is the average age of any brand’s buyers in the 25-35 range?

In my area, the Big Altima Energy drivers have all rolled their negative equity into Rogues now, and the Altimas are, ironically, generally clean and well-behaved.

Don’t all those Hyundais and Kias that keep getting stolen have push button starting, but no actual RFID key system?

This sounds promising! I thought the last two or three (since Origins) got too far away from what made the series good, went way too hard on the Witcher 3 -style RPG elements. If they’re backing off on the RPG-ness of it, that’s awesome.

I would too, but I really hope they don’t end up looking like that.

I like, generally, where they’re going, but I’d be a lot more interested if this were an electric Boxster that well-heeled plebes could entertain the possibility of owning.

And who doesn’t have a forklift at home?

It’s done that way so they can have the adjustable “sport exhaust.”