“It’s a storm of their own making”, goes on to list several factors very definitely not of Hyundai’s own making. They absolutely did botch the roll out of Genesis, and they’ve let the whole crap dealerships problem go on for far too long. I still think the entire dealership model in the U.S. has very, very little to…

I’m sure someone else has said this in this long comment thread, but I’ll say it, anyway. Having taken care of people with COVID-19—in hospitals and nursing homes, when they’re still fighting the sickness, and after it’s done them in—I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. I tend to think that premature death (however it…

I’d really love to see Hyundai get into Formula E. I get that F1 is basically too expensive at this point for everyone, but these electric racecars seem like they must be cheaper to develop. I mean, there was supposed to be a Formula E race in/near Seoul (before COVID), it’d be a great way to get people on board with…

Then, if ever such a thing comes to fruition, Americans will procede to fold down that third row seat and forget it’s there.

I still can’t believe they let the FX go. I mean, I can, because Infiniti product planning, but even granting that the styling wasn’t for everyone, it was an aggressive, overpowered (for its time), luxury SUV. They coulda/shoulda kept it as an SUV halo model, at least.

Well, when driving is not an intrinsincally valued activity—that is to say, it holds no more importance to most people than the commute into work or to the store does—it makes sense that we’d want it to take as little of our attention as possible. The more you do something, the less that you want to notice that you’re…

Diesel’s main markets in developed countries has been Europe and South Korea; dieselgate and smog are killing it slowly in those respective places, though it’s certainly still fairly popular.

Second those motions. I think the exterior would be a home run, but the vertical creases make the car look quite busy, as well as making it look shorter by breaking up the flow of horizontal lines. I’m otherwise a big fan of how bold they went with the design, and the design of the interior is luxury-grade (obviously,…

Have to sadly second that, at least for the American market. They do make a lot of sense, but people don’t get them. Whenever I advise people to buy even just regular hybrids, they ask if they have to be plugged in. There’s a huge knowledge deficit about cars for average consumers (generally, but especially electrified…

....I was going to respond to your first paragraph, but then you went all Cocoa Puffs on me, so I’m taking a calculated risk here.

Suffice to say, with basically all American cities being almost entirely zoned for R1 development, it isn’t a matter of people’s desired modes of housing. It is illegal to build anything…

....Okay, but you understand that there’s hundreds of square miles more of roadways and sprawling McMansions in addition to the madness of those freeways, whereas that picture of Sienna contains both the transit pathways (walkable streets) and the residences of the people who use them.

Sure, I’ll chalk some of it up to…

DadJokes, but I’m 97% sure that’s the rationale.

...Uh, that he’s either a hypocrite, or that he’s not intelligent enough to understand what his situation ought to have taught him about the failures of privatized health insurance? I grant the the latter is hardly an evil—people can’t help if they’re born stupid or with poor insight or analytical capacities—but I…

Can’t deny that :(.

I mean, I’m not angry, per se; it’s just very like this place to worry about passing stupid legislation when, e.g., we’ve got issues with homelessness and opioid abuse. I’m leaving, so it’s no real skin off of my nose, but it’s just a waste of time and resources.

My homestate rarely seems to neglect an opportunity to be passively, inoffensively stupid. Nothing too dramatically dumb, but evasion of every opportunity to be that little more sensible is accomplished. Can’t wait to move to OR.

Ok, but the abundance didn’t come first; the cheapness did. It wasn’t that all of a sudden millions of people could afford cars; they were luxury items for the first couple of decades before the Model T came around. Someone figured out how to make a cheap car and so everyone bought one. Same thing with international…

You’ve got that exactly backwards. Things don’t become abundant because we can afford them. Things become affordable first, then abundant. Lots of people wanted to drive a car, but it was too expensive for most people. As cars become cheaper to own, more people bought them. This shouldn’t be a shocker to you or anyone…

Oh I see now; you’re one of those “if you don’t work, you should die” types. And just fyi, food is much less resource-intensive now than it was in the past; lil thing called the Green Revolution is to credit for that. And my point about housing is specifically that we can make it much less-resource intensive than it…

More or less. We’ve all been conditioned to think that traveling tens of miles on a daily basis while exerting minimal effort to do so is somehow normal, but that sense of normalcy is only created by how incredibly resource-intensive that extensive travel has become. Travel like that is a privilege. Now that most of…