What’s more convenient then plugging it in every night when you get home? Are you regularly driving 250-300 miles a day? If so, then yeah, it’s not for you. 

If losing a rotary is inevitable, an Inline 6 is at least an acceptable consolation. I’m not a big rotary nerd, I just think they sound cool and I appreciate things that are different. But I also recognize it might just be a concept that will never pan out to the extent that piston engines have.

This must be a GM thing because my ‘98 Grand Prix did the same thing. I don’t use cruise control to this day.

Neutral: I have experienced “unintentional acceleration.” It was in the late 1990s after I’d only been driving for a year or two. I hit Resume on the cruise control in my 1989 Bonneville within a couple mph of the set point, at which point it floored the gas and just kept accelerating well past the set point. When I…

As long as someone isn’t trying to pull into the spot on the other side it is totally fine.

Thanks for the crash course. This story was bang on. Talk about making an impact in automotive racing safety!

This is definitely a good point - and while EV tech is evolving super rapidly I’m definitely still leaning more on the PHEV side of things for this very reason. It’ll give me EV capability for most of my driving, give me more range when I do need to make a longer trip, and in general is a tried and tested formula that…

Appreciate your message! Yup, that’s basically where I’m at…either something new for ~$25k or so out the door, which is too rich for my blood, ~$15-17k lease return on a Volt, or something around the $10-12k mark like your car. As much as I would like some more modern amenities like Android Auto on a newer car I don’t…

By the time I read everything, only about half of the car pictures had loaded, but 13(!) individual ads loaded for a pretty fancy woodchipper. So I am left thinking that a woodchipper was the most important thing of the last 15 years.

All good considerations. I basically did the same thing you’re doing... I really liked the Clarity specs, but for me it came down to styling. I tried the Ioniq but it was too small. I couldn’t find a good deal on the Hyundai Sonata plug in, used or at the dealer. I really wanted the Outlander plug in but the peddle…

Your post is very relevant to my interests - I live in OR too and have been looking in to a PHEV purchase sometime over the coming year or so (lease on my 2016 Spark EV ended a few months ago).

I have a 2020 Fusion Plug-in Hybrid (they dropped the “Energi” for this year), and my out the door price was similar to yours. The tax credits make it cheaper than the standard Hybrid from my calculations. I got 1000 miles out of my first tank, and should save $1k a year on gas.

PPS - I had a 2014 Fusion Energi for 4 years, and which i sold for $12 or $13k. My 2019 is nicer, with a larger battery, so I’m banking on $14k after 4 years, or ~ $12k depreciation. $3k per year is not bad, and I’m saving $100 per month in gas costs compared to a 25 mpg sedan. So that takes it down to around $2k per…

I am the proud, unabashed owner of a 2019 Ford Fusion Energi titanium... though maybe a little less so after the article and comments, lol.

Full size, 3 row crossovers are more expensive than other, smaller cars, news at 11...

I would absolutely buy one, you can't beat Toyota resale value. Plus 35 mpg for a SUV that will seat at least 7 is pretty good. 

Come out of your box. You'll never discover anything with knee-jerk reactions.

In September, we got a steeply discounted 2019 Limited AWD due to the impending arrival of the 2020. We ended up paying not much more than the base model 2020s price for a loaded 2019. Yeah, it’s “last year’s model”, but a boring 3-row SUV is what it is regardless. It gets the job done.

I actually know this one because a former colleague bought her new Highlander ~18 mos. back: If you have a two-person household and a single dog and are American, a Highlander is the smallest vehicle that can possibly transport all three lifeforms simultaneously.  

Counterpoint: Honda knew how to make an attractive car. Ferrari did not.