You haven’t been inside an 2018+ Expedition or Navigator lately, have you? Or one of the new Rams? VW’s interiors may feel more premium (debateable, but they’ve been improving, as has most of the rest of the industry) but given the choice between a car that has money put towards the interior and not towards the rest…

Yes, they’re long, but they actually fit in a parking space, and the body shape allows for most of the length to be used for the interior. Contrast that to a traverse or enclave where the bumper covers are pointed and longer in the center, which means they’re longer but not actually using the space. Kind of hard to…

Interior volume is actually up, mostly for the rear, oddly enough. Longer wheelbase plus improved packaging over the old FWD-based architecture, I believe.

You’d think the industry would have learned from the derpy-looking forester that headlights should never have longer upper borders than lower. The Edge barely pulled it off because of the grille treatment, but Ford even made the Taurus look worse with the refresh a few years ago, when it looked like theu turned the…

You mean Bronco?

There were other “big”-screen touchscreen phones before iphony. If anything, this trend traces back to Volvo and Aston Martin’s GPS navigation screen that motored up out of the top of the dash which was introduced about a decade ago.

Screens have been protruding from the top of the dash for over a decade now. One of the earliest examples that comes to mind is the unit that (then Ford-owned) Volvo had that motored up and out, which (also then Ford-owned) Aston Martin also used. Mazda and Audi also use protruding screens (quite well, really), and…

I agree that the E-Type is gorgeous. However, my lovely wife would candidly declare it - in her words - an “ugly penis car”, that is to say, deliberately phallic and unappealing by default. Yet a ‘67 GT500 is her dream car. So not universal. 

So, what, then, an AMC? Like the Javelin I mean, not the Pacer or Gremlin, which are polarizing.

If he used “earnest” instead, would that be better and even acceptable?

I barely acknowledge that VW/Audi exist. It’s a pity that other brands are lumped into the same company (admittedly largely to those companies’ benefits, like Lamborghini, Skoda, Seat, and Porsche to a degree) since I’d be more interested in them if they weren’t part of the VAG conglomerate. 

Vinyl print applique. Also thinly-sliced tile.

i8 Roadster, as well. I forget if that has a gas engine or not like some of the i3s.

They don’t come as convertibles, though, like MikeofLA was mentioning.

I like the Leaf, and Focus EV, and a smattering of other EVs and plug-in hybrids. However, they don’t come from the factory as convertibles, which is MikeofLA’s point. 

Pretty sure that’s not a convertible EV, which is the point I was making in response to the Tesla Roadster suggestion. 

I was with you until you started naming the wrong Jeeps. Those 3 are disguised Fiats, and have their fair share of Italian “reliability”.

Perhaps, but I saw a number of Volvos being driven when I honeymooned on Kaua’i a few years ago. 

Oh my... Between this and the Jaguar i-Pace (dumb name, great car), my next vehicle very well may be electric. First one with a full-EV actual-wagon and/or actual at-least-midsize SUV (ground clearance and AWD) would also be very strong contenders.

Neat, my XC90's cleaning up the air.