Car enthusiasts need to broaden their conception of what “desirability” means. My future Radwood dream cruiser? An ‘18 KDM Grandeur hybrid with the cork interior trim. Who else—really, maybe ever—has used CORK—a very sustainable wood source—to trim their mid-premium large hybrid car?? Or has even made a mid-premium…

That’s my experience, as well. I’ve managed to repeatedly get a car-reported 65-80mpg on my ‘20 Sonata hybrid—on a warm day—on my 55mph, 6-mile mostly-highway commute to work, because the engine will turn on initially to reach temp, cruising speed, and then, if you know what the throttle load that’ll kick on the…

It’s just a shame that this--and the related Sonata N-Line--don’t come with limited slip diffs. I’m honestly shocked they didn’t add one in with the recent refresh to these cars; they’re great, but every review complains about massive torque steer.

If anyone should be required to buy an EV, it’s the sort of people who can afford an S-Class. “Where am I supposed to charge my car?” In one of the stalls of your 4-car garage, probably. “What if I need to drive somewhere I can’t charge?” Take one of your other vehicles.”I can’t afford an EV!”. Sure.

I think what we’re long overdue for is automakers just trimming back interior space consumption considerably. Especially with the proliferation of screens (love it or hate it), the amount of space actually needed to cover up behind-dash components has shrunken quite a bit; same goes for the gradual shrinkage of airbag…

it’s a unique family tradition, gotta hand it to them

Seriously. I’m not sure what makes Americans at least seem to be so uniquely irrational about out our car purchases. If people bought what they needed for 95% of their driving and minimized total cost of ownership, the top-selling cars would be the Prius, Leaf, Kona/Niro EVs; Civics and Corollas would make their way…

You have 5 stars for not reading where it says, “they have fifteen”. Underlined, because there’s a link. RTMF article. C’mon, people....

Jesus Christ am I ever tired of this almost definitionally psychotic mindset. Not everything needs to turn a profit. You’re not a bank account, or investment portfolio, or corporation, or brand...you’re a PERSON.

She could wear a facemask and sunglasses? Especially these days, where that’s pretty normal, and most airlines have fairly private VIP-ish areas, it’s not actually hard to avoid the public. Celebs in East Asia have been doing it for years.

Seriously. At this point, my first thought was, “Can we please get this guy some protection? Before he ‘commits suicide’?”

That’s the real “conspiracy”: we get in the pod (car), we eat the bugs (well, factory-farm $2 drive-thru hamburger), we make more and more money for our bosses and less and less for ourselves (even though our bosses aren’t actually happy, either), living lives evermore alienated from each other. Only it’s not a…

....If you actually watch the video, both Misha and another Ioniq 5 N driver there (apparently just coincidence) ended with about 50% charge left, neither having used any braking regen, so ~100 miles of range left. Maybe you shouldn’t talk out your back-end on things?

They’re mostly the same under the skin, sure, but I don’t think they’ve ever just been badge-engineered, maybe except for the 2nd gen Sedona/Hyundai Entourage. There aren’t interchangeable exterior panels (or likely interior pieces) between any of their models, otherwise. They’ve just made the smart decision to…

Hyundai’s that parent company to Kia in the same way it’s the parent company to Hyundai, in a sense. Hyundai only owns about a third of Kia, and while the ownership structure is more complicated than that in actuality, in practice, they operate independently when it makes sense. Just so happens that sales in most…

I have a ‘20 Sonata hybrid, and like the guy with the Palisade, I use these systems religiously. The point is not that you then can sit there on your phone doing whatever else, but especially in heavily-trafficked areas, you also don’t need to be completely transfixed by what the people around you are doing. You still…

Everybody has their comfort belief schema. It’s thinking that yours is the only valid and true one—which isn’t exclusive to religious belief--that is a shortcut to madness.

It’s specifically because government isn’t involved in these things enough that prices go up. Pair that with poor cost controls in both the private and public sector, and we end up just writing blank checks for the managerial and proprietarian classes to pad their wallets with. The way you fix this is by direct public…

I think part of the issue there is that the Kona is a bit small for the U.S. market. Compact CUVs don’t sell nearly as well mid-size ones.

Oh absolutely! The point is that they can make some people happy, and so whether you—or I, or anyone—am the kind of person who would be made happier by having kids should be a personal choice. However, whether or not you think there’s a positive phenomenological connotation to having kids—i.e., that the experience of…