Not to mention the substantial subsidies the oil and gas industry receives from government policy

Their problem is perceptional, to a certain extent. A low volume sports coupe would do something to get their brand image away from the rental counter and subprime lending, at least 

It looks... worse than I was expecting? Like, a lot worse. 

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Yes, I quite like it, but I feel like there’s some kind of auto journalist class conspiracy to convince everyone that this is some kind of knockout car. It’s weird.

In this sense, the helmet law bait-and-switch is classic victim blaming, the cyclist version of when rape survivors are asked what they were wearing, as if somehow any cyclist killed by a driver was asking for or deserved to die because he or she wasn’t donning a Styrofoam dome.

Aaron was great on Chris Hayes’s podcast:

(I also quite like the convertible Murano.)

And importantly, the rearmost pillar is body color on all your examples. Hence they avoid the convertible look.

It looks horrible? The contrast roof and the (quasi) two doors are giving me:

And in the present:

I mean, this is obviously a large oversight but “worst case scenario... coming to fruition” seems a little hyperbolic. Lots of mechanical errors “brick” conventional cars and render them unusable - we’re talking about a faulty storage device here.

I quite like it! It’s oddly French looking. And I vastly prefer the interior to that of the Prius / Corolla / Camry.

The aging population in Japan is no joke lol. I imagine that’s the issue the seat mechanism is targeting primarily.

Porschits.

Those taillights.

The e-Golf isn’t even officially available in all fifty states as of 2019. I think even Volkswagen would be embarrassed for people to think of it as anything other than a compliance car, much less a credible indication of the future direction of the company.

Gives you a sense of how spooked the VW Group was by dieselgate that they were seemingly running in all directions simultaneously to get an EV out the door. And of how long development times are in the car biz that these choices continue to reverberate for so long afterwards.

Land Rover also significantly inflated the price for this generation Range Rover. They used to be kind of good value if you squinted a little bit. Now it starts from $90k and was only slightly less when it debuted in 2013. Even the new generation Cayenne is still around the $65,000 mark.

*lest they kick you for revealing the extensive commonalities.