:-(

False premise. The Bolt is more like an electric optioned-up Trax, but with way more power.

First, every EV maker has had fire issues with batteries. Second, many ICEs have had the same issues, including Ford’s “cars can catch fire even when off..” problems. Dont even get me started on the rate in which EVs catch fire vs ICE.

Good.

Considering that petroleum fuelled vehicles are basically always on fire (there were over 200,000 car fires in the USA in 2018), the couple dozen Bolt fires are being blown WAY out of proportion.

It’s pretty incredible that they can sell an EV with 260-ish miles of range for that price. This is barely over half the price of the average new car, for a perfectly competent vehicle with better range than basically every EV in history up until a little over a decade ago.

They’ve determined the cause and a fix and LG is paying for it. 

It is the Tesla that need to spend on R&D to bring up their vehicles on par to Ford’s vehicles.

Exactly.

Sometimes sure, but I feel like in the vast majority of cases a card is faster. Regardless of the total, I pull out my one card that’s always in the same spot and either insert it myself or give it to you to insert; once I get it back, I’m done unless I have to enter something like a tip. With cash, first I need to…

Every time gas goes down, Americans buy up gas-guzzling SUVs, then when gas prices go up, they complain about the cost of gas.

Business absolutely CAN refuse cash. It’s a myth that taking cash is required.

That’s what I’m afraid of too. Car manufacturers seem determined to follow the SAAS development model pushing not quite finished products onto the market because “We can fix it live.”

Try this with a hotel and you are gonna get nowhere fast.

Those Opels were designed from the get-go to be Buicks.

1st: My fear is that other automakers will copy Tesla instead of giving people things Tesla doesn’t. 

WTF... do I like Buicks now? This thing is gorgeous. Hopefully they can fully realize it. 

The only fake vents are the ones on the hood and the ones behind the rear wheels, the rest are real.

I tried to buy one in early 2019. Then the dealer tried to mark it up $3k and add a $5k “lifetime warranty”. Add in the general scummy demeanor, giant sweaty manager blocking me from leaving and I wasn’t buying anything Kia after experiencing Dan OBrien’s bullshit.

Eye of the beholder and all that but the ‘07 and earlier CTS V hasn’t aged well inside or out. And while $21,500 isn’t egregious, it’s definitely too high compared to what else is out there in these model years, assuming you really want a first gen anyway. ND.