I mean, I guess I can concede that your experience is different than mine. I also pay the most attention to the vehicles of the people around me, and the parking lots at work are filled with black trucks. Somebody gets a new truck? You bet it’s black.

Alabama. The thing about car culture that I noticed here that is different than anywhere else I lived has to do with color. I’m a big proponent of buying cars in colors and not just black/silver/white but something I noticed about Alabama when I moved here two and a half years ago is the alarming number of dark red…

Lodi, California (yes, that Lodi, the one in the Creedence Clearwater Revival song): Chevy Silverado pickup, most them fleet white, many of them lifted brodozers. Lodi is a MAGA-cap red aggie town in the middle of blue northern California, only a half-hour south of Sacramento, the state capital. There are only four…

I know right? Remember cow catchers on trains? Pedestrian catcher?

Our Subarus would just eat light bulbs for some reason. It seems like every year. I have no idea why. It is basically schrodinger’s cat of filament technology

Not coincidentally, the Q5 was one of the few Audis you could consistently get at a discount through the pandemic.

Easy - So. Cal, Tacomas and Teslas. Literally every other car is one or the other. My immediate neighbors have 2 of each, but that’s true everywhere around here.
I once counted Tesla’s during a 25 minute drive, and also tried to count Camry’s and Accords to compare and the Teslas far outnumbered the combined number of…

Here in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) it seems to be the Golf GTI, either gen 7 or gen 8, as long as it has a loud can with pops and bangs. All murdered out obviously because street cred. When they are a bit higher in rank it will be a latest gen Audi RS3, same pops and bangs ofcourse.

We call them the 24/7 street…

I have no problem with dairy, but pouring milk all over your face is pretty gross. Unless you like your face to smell like rotten milk, that is. 

The majority of US almonds are grown in the central Valley in California.

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Chrysler: a car brand that will soon be selling only one vehicle from a dying segment. Time to stick a fork in them.

I’d think that instead of a an all-new, from scratch vehicle being developed, it’ll be more like ‘let’s rebadge whatever large thing Stellantis is pushing out under the Peugeot brand in Europe’. And that platform has been under development for some time.

...short list made up of “legacy and new names.”

That’s great. Starting from scratch they should have a new product ready for production by 2030.

Their product planning for Chrysler and Dodge has been very poor, Dodge is lucky to have the Hornet so it at least has something for people not looking for a thirsty leviathan like the Durango or a fairly niche full-sized sedan and coupe to look at, Chrysler has a van, a nice van, but just a van does not a enticing pro…

At this point they just need to do a Plymouth to Chrysler and kill the brand, slap a Dodge Caravan badge on the Pacifica (Dodge needs product too) and shut it on down as that is literally the only thing they have left after 2023. The Airflow was looking like a fairly production ready effort so it made some sense to…

It seems to me that the best time to be doing all of this was like 5 years ago.