Pressurized gas chamber bomb?

Have you seen the current Corolla and Civic? They’re pretty dumpy.

Your children will have 0 respect for you and laugh at you behind your back if you buy a Hyundai.

I mean, it’s an overpriced Kia Rio with a lift kit—it’d be more of a miracle if it wasn’t terrible.

The CVT never knew what I wanted it to do.

God, you know this site is on its way out when rage-bait like this only gets 70-odd comments—I remember the days of 700-odd comments, 100 of which were annotations of the lead image.

Wait, so you’re telling me these ‘help me buy a car’ posts come out long after the prompt has been submitted and the car has been purchased already? Well, there goes my immersion :P

Lots of jobs back then just involved calling people and filling out paperwork. I’m sure you could do that at home. Even better if you had a fax machine!

Meh, this site is on its last legs anyway. I fully expect them to nerf comments entirely by the end of this year. It’s been a good run.

Trolleybuses are even better. Dead-reliable and no big battery as a degradation liability. Sure the powerlines are unsightly, but at some point they add charm and only really need to exist on dense routes. I guess I just find it ridiculous that certain cities are getting rid of their trolleybuses for battery buses in…

I’ll do you one better: trash trucks and mail vans. I absolutely hate being woken up by the CNG scream of the sanitation guy flooring his Peterbilt from house-to-house at 5 AM, or the racket of a LLV cranking and failing to start after being shut off at every house. Even if you’re not looking at tailpipe emissions, ICE…

I guess so, but around 30 seems to be the norm with most manufacturers. Anyways, are ULEZ zones that large? I would have thought around 20 miles of EV range would be plenty to get out of any city center.

To be fair, the O’odham name for Tucson is Cuk Ṣon, pronounced closer to ‘Took-sun’, so calling it ‘Too-sawn’ is actually a Westernization.

All of them? For sure the Ecoboosts have some foibles, but they can be bulletproofed with a little preventative maintenance, right? That 365 hp Flex has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

True! What’s old is new again...

Good. I’ve never understood why they’d hide them only to include fake ones. Even as a kid I appreciated our Odyssey for making its hidden tip as covert and functional as possible without drawing attention to itself. This is how you actually hide an exhaust pipe.

https://www.idtechex.com/en/research-article/will-solid-state-batteries-eliminate-the-need-for-ev-fire-protection/29300

Mostly I was being provocative, but liftbacks have long been a separate bodystyle in the European sector (Rover SD1, Citroen CX/XM, pretty much every large Renault ‘sedan’, Ford Scorpio, etc.) Through the 2000s it was pretty common to offer a liftback and a sedan separately.

Sure, but 43 miles seems like range overkill on a ‘performance’ PHEV. Most PHEV crossovers barely do 20 or 30, and I’m sure many of those are used in ULEV zones. 

But why? It still doesn’t explain why there are lighter PHEVs, full EVs, and even hybrid pickups despite this supposedly riding on their ‘all-new’ CLAR platform that’s supposed to incorporate aluminum and CF to be lighter and stronger than ever.