oooh I walk past this EVERY DAY! and I had no idea that it was a stick! 

I’m all in at $2500. But for this price? No thanks. 

What!? The Bolt and Volt are/were fantastic. GM as usual, has moments of greatness and and then ruins it all. I have a couple of examples...

Uhm nope. Highway yes, but this is Southern California. A huge % of that 400,000 miles is going to be in significant stop’n’go traffic so understanding the wear on components (that haven’t yet been replaced) would be a good learning opportunity. Toyota bought back a 1 million mile Tundra for the same reason...although…

Tesla should really have bought it back from them at the end. It would be an excellent study for their engineers to see how everything has held up over time and miles. 

I imagine the tax breaks are going to be the key advantage of this. I’m woefully ignorant of the overly complex company car tax rules in the UK now but my understanding is that EV’s are soon to attract a bill of £0, which over a large fleet, combined with other government incentives, I’m sure will mean this will find…

Dear Mr Uchida. Here is a plan. It’s better than your bullshit cut costs plan. Please read carefully.

So Nissan’s ‘grand plan’ is to basically cut cut cut. Uhm, their model line up is hardly fat and juicy as it is. They’re pretty much only holding on in North America thanks to the Rogue and THAT’S only holding on because for some reason people are rocking up at a Nissan dealership, realizing the lease price for a new…

I’m not spending any money on it?....yet anyway

Respectfully, I disagree.

A Merkahaawahhaaaat? Nope. This is a Ford Sierra. End of discussion. 

I grew up with manuals. (I’m a Brit) For 15 years of my driving career, I’d never even driven an auto. My current car is the only auto I’ve ever owned. I will not own a manual car (for daily use) again. Why? Because I grew up in deepest darkest Mid Wales where mashing through the gears in a shitbox compact with barely…

I’ve always been a big Volvo fan and having just returned a 2020 XC90 rental (dunno what Hertz were doing with one but I grabbed it!) I’m now convinced that an XC60 T8 will be my next car. Yes it’s expensive, yes it’s overly complicated, risky from a maintenance perspective and no it doesn’t lease particularly well…

Jag have a similar issue to Cadillac. Interesting and quirky cars that can often be very good but a confusing naming convention, pricing strategy and very questionable quality control. The E-Pace needs to be MUCH lighter with more power as does the F-Pace. They need a 3-row SUV because everyone does these days for…

Fun piece! But it makes me a bit sad. I sit here, looking out at my own 2018 Highlander XLE which is totally impractical for me in every way (huge 3row SUV when I have zero kids, no intention of ever having them or even know anyone who has them, a measly 16mpg in LA city traffic….) and wonder, just what the fuck was…

Well Lexus does sell LUXE ‘minivans’ in other markets but they’re not really very big. Think Nissan NV200 but with leather seats.

I meaaaan, to each their own but WHY? 

*cough* I can’t believe this is my suggestion but here we are.

The problem is, as with a lot of cars with giant, HUGE grilles is that they look *WAY* worse without the front license plate. Stick with me, I know it’s a weird concept to suggest a car looks better with a license plate stuck on but seriously, BMW’s latest designs and all recent Lexus’ look far better in ‘normal’…

I don’t understand. The system is widely regarded as being very good. One of the better ones out there. It’s a technology that a lot of buyers (maybe not Jalopnik readers, but a lot of ‘normal’ buyers - you know, the ones that buy RAV4's and CRV’s) DO want this. GM has clearly invested a lot in developing the product.…