You must mean the most important vehicle in the Back to the Future franchise. The producers spent three entire films of a movie franchise focusing on a time travelling Delorean, and totally missed the star of the show.

I don’t live in or near Chicago. I’ve only been there twice, and those two times, the difference in temperature was 115 degrees or so. When it was 23 below zero, having parked outdoors overnight, I started my car which had a manual transmission. The lube in the tranny was basically frozen. I had to back around the…

Im getting strong Gen 1 Neon vibes

“Turkey fascinates me, because it may be the most expensive place to buy a car in the world.”

Former CA smog check guy here. Unless these parts have gained approval from the California Air Resources Board then yeah - the cold air intake, down pipe and possibly more would make it fail emission inspection.

The decision to headline this article anything besides GOOD NEWS is an indication that fun is dead at Jalopnik.

Sounds like great news.

You are also describing real estate.

I think the real key here is that they designed this platform to be a phev with rotary range extender (which they hope to expand to other vehicles on the new platform in future) but

They just announced that the rotary range extender is on hold indefinitely. IMO a PHEV with 100+ miles of electric range would be an absolute game changer - there’s still nothing out there with much more plug-in range than a 2nd gen Volt.

I mean, “turn better than 22 mpg on the highway, cruise the interstates at 80mph plus, haul a voluminous amount in the rear with the seats folded, allow sleeping in the back with the seats slid forward” isn’t a very high bar. Modern Jeeps are good offroad, except where they are too big., I’ll give you that.

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I ended up with a Wrangler as a rental in San Diego - literally the last car at the lot - and I was just appalled at how it drove. My god. It’s a fucking farm tractor. It’s somehow bouncy, too soft, and too firm all at the same time. In real world mixed freeway/city I was lucky to hit 17mpg. It was god awful loud on…

Based on the couple women I know that make no pretense of taking them off road, they’re the best 4-door convertible on the market.

This is probably the correct answer.

You’re almost right. It also excels at allowing you to PRETEND that you run trails, which is the reason most people buy them.

Now, I’m not talking about it’s offroad prowess which stands for itself -- and is often how the press tests it as well. Reality is people pay stupid amounts of money for something they will never take offroad, just for looks. 

The Tacoma is a dog ass terrible pickup, the cult following is just that- a cult. Gutless engine, bad transmission tuning, big time dive & squat from the suspension, cramped cabin, awful infotainment.... but at least they’re expensive.

I’d also like to throw all Teslas in the ring. In my experience, they drive just…

Why are those seats making me hungry?

Counterpoint: it doesn’t