Anyone else think that the name is not going to help? VinFast? Really? I understand the concern that Westerners won’t respond well to native East Asian names, but there’s gotta be something better than “VinFast”. Almost as bad as China’s “Human Horizons”.

I walk to work at the local hospital in metro Portland, OR, and crossing the street people are turning onto isn’t “crossing against a green light”; the pedestrian crosswalk signals for me to walk at the same time as people are given a green light to go straight or turn right. I don’t know if that’s an issue with how…

I bought a hybrid ‘20 Sonata for the same reason. Lots of space, very comfortable, (to my eyes) beautiful styling, and great fuel economy (usually >50mpg). 

If you compare a hybrid Camry to a regular Highlander, it’s $1300 a year. Don’t tell me that’s not an appreciable difference, to say nothing of the huge difference in MSRP (28k to at least 31k). Lower maintenance cost, cheaper tires and brakes, cheaper insurance...it all adds up.

Echoing everyone else, we’re the highest per capita CO2 emitter among large countries by far, and our single largest source of emissions is light duty vehicles.

Not to mention the gas guzzler tax STILL only applies to sedans, and only kicks in at <21.5mpg. 

I think that’s part of the problem. People don’t realize how much more fuel efficient cars have become over even the past decade, and so expectations lag behind potential; a modern Sentra should pretty easily crack 40mpg on the highway. Consumer Reports has it at 44mpg highway, and a Civic, Elantra, Corolla, or any of…

I think you’re right that people for whom a front bench is a priority, they already know they’re not going to find one in a new car. Nonetheless, I’d love to see one in a car like this. Overseas reviews seem to suggest this is definitely a long-haul comfort car, and it even has those front seat leg rests (at least in…

If there was something intrinsically wrong with Hyundai/Kia security measures, then it shouldn’t be just in Milwaukee that they’re being disproportionately stolen. Anyone have theft numbers for all makes in various cities? They’d have to be compared with marketshare/registration logs to know if they really are being…

Was going to say, it’s probably as much as anything else that owning a non-hybrid Wrangler would be way too expensive. Not to mention, I think, that Europeans are a bit less obsessed with looking like offroad warriors on their way to a Tesco, Carrefour, or Aldi, so a Wrangler can’t hang its appeal solely on that angle.

Gotta say I love the spot this must put some of the GQP in. “Hmmm. Mexico bad. But unions ALSO bad. And EVs also bad. But cowing to demands from Those People is Worst. But don’t want to agree with The Evil Liberal Socialist Dems.” As I’m nominally one of the Evil Liberal Socialist Dems, I’d say the full credit ought…

One component of those ratings it took me a while to learn is that they’re in relation to other cars of the same model year; i.e., a ‘20 RDX vs. a ‘20, e.g., Civic. More problems than have occured for other cars of the same model year=worse rating. I have to agree, though that there doesn’t seem to be enough…

I have to think they’re going to end up making the contrasting panel an option, like Audi ended up doing for the R8. It might’ve made more visual sense if the car had rear haunches to emphasize, but...it’s got no hips. Another issue for me is that the headlights seem either misplaced or mishaped, or both. At least…

The YF (your second picture) debuted in 2009, not 2014. I can say, of the current-gen Sonata, I wish they’d all come with the hybrid/base grille. It’s a lot less gaping:

Why is the closest school 10—or 5, or 3, or 2—miles away? Building for pedestrians isn’t just having narrower, slower streets, with sidewalks on both sides; at least as importantly, it’s having things within reasonable walking distance. There’s no good reason American cities are as spread out as they are.

We could still absolutely have built or rebuild our cities so kids could safely walk to school. I grew up in Manchester, NH, and almost all of New England that is newer than about 1920 is absolutely hostile to pedestrians.

America keeps running into these issues caused by how awful it is to not own a car here--many…

It’s a long chain of causation I’m positing, but entirely plausible, maybe even straight-up probable—how many more people will die in car accidents who might’ve taken a train if it offered better service, but don’t because CT NIMBYs (and CTDOT incompetence) stand in the way? Most people in this country seem to take …

You say that as though you think that catenary-powered trains don’t run anywhere where they have snow, like, I dunno, all of northern China, Europe, and Japan, South Korea, Russia....Also, third rail doesn’t work for genuine, sustained, >125mph running, which is why they use constant-tension catenary wherever high…

Yeah, the NIMBYs all along the corridor have nothing to do with it....

Pretty sure the answer to that is still yes. Even stationary wireless charging is pretty rare for that reason. Genesis’ GV60 will have it optionally, and I’m pretty sure some plug-in Audis do, as well, but, it seems like a solution to a none-problem--a gimmick, more than anything else. Really, how hard is it to plug…