Nah, I’m saying that most people who need trucks for work won’t be too upset about changing to EV. And the folks who are upset aren’t actually using trucks for anything more than blue collar cosplay.

As a borderline old man I get what you mean. My girlfriend and I had a conversation a while back because she was sort of upset about the fact that my daughter kind of off the cuff calls herself queer- her problem wasn’t with queerness, it was with the fact that she lost friends to AIDS, she remembered their struggles…

To be fair, he’s earned his arrogance- He survived the AIDS epidemic, he saw being gay go from being criminal to barely tolerated to accepted and fine, he saw gay relationships go from criminal to “go ahead and get married”- that kind of stuff leaves scars and those scars can very easily present as arrogance and…

My former father in law was a retired dairy farmer. He owned 2 cars- a first-gen toyota yaris 2 door and an old as hell f-150.

I mean, these were the same people who bemoaned emissions controls, catalytic converters, airbags, ABS and unleaded fuel.

It was back in the 80s when cassettes were king. I had an ammo box full of casettes (they fit almost perfectly and looked soooo cool). Put them on the roof of my mom’s new car, which I was borrowing because suburban punk, got in the car, and drove off.

Oh fer fucks sake, you live in texas. Just buy a used beater truck. Spend 10K on something to haul parts and drive through water and if it gets ruined, it’s practically disposable. Then spend 50k on something nice.

But, it’s not being blown out of proportion. A company is essentially beta-testing their product in traffic, and overselling it’s abilities to do what they promise it can do, and is extremely combative when it comes to fixing the problem. Thus, it deserves attention from the NHTSA that it’s getting and hopefully this…

And only 27 deaths were attributed to the Ford Pinto’s shitty fuel tank design over 5 years.

You know, at this point most organizations that fucked up would be issuing an, “oh my god we are so sorry, we are going to open a commission into why this community wasn’t listened to, gonna try harder next time, seriously, our bad on this, etc.” statement.

Something from VW is more complicated than it needs to be? Color me shocked.

If you are, like me, a mountain biker of a certain age with an only semi-outdoorsy girlfriend, this is kind of ideal. And you can tell by the giant swing away rack that this is the kind of person who owned it before.

Figure this is a far better choice than a wee little RHD import Japanese campervan and the style…

Assuming you mean eastern new york, As Western new york is only about 90 miles top to bottom... But even eastern new york is only 300 miles long, so if you go from NYC to Burlington VT, you’ve still got Albany to fill up in and a town like Burlington is gonna have fast chargers.

OK, calling bullshit on this as someone who regularly (like 4-6 times a month) drives 450 miles in a day.

450 miles is a 7 hour drive with no stops. And while I can drive 450 miles without refueling in my current car, That drive still usually takes me 8+ hours.
Because I still have to stop for food, stop to pee, stop…

The fourth Gen Subaru Outback. Mainly because it followed the best looking of the bunch, the beautiful 3rd gen outback.

gen 1, 2 and 3 were all definitely wagons. Gen 4?

Sure, the 4th gen was bigger and more in line with what consumers actually wanted, and sure, sales basically doubled when they went for the new bigger…

OK, hear me out- you want a 2 door money pit? check.
Comfortable all day at 85? check.
A stupid amount of cylinders? Check, available with a v-12 that only increases its money-pit-itude.
A dedicated and eccentric community? Oh, checkity check check on that one.

Plus, you can probably get one for anywhere between 12 and…

Someone without a babysitter. Someone without day care. Someone who just got out of the hospital days ago and needed to go grocery shopping.

The fact that your kid has never been inside a store is great and I am happy that you’ve been in a position where that’s possible. You have to understand that unfortunately, most…

My current car, because if I wasn’t really interested in impressing these people when I went to school, why would I care now? I don’t need to put on a show, I’m proud of who I am and where I am in life even if that means I’m driving a boring Outback instead of something less practical and more showy.

Or, it’s just that the effort to reward calculation doesn’t work. Like, do I really want to travel several states to see people I don’t remember because we haven’t talked since I went to college?

I wouldn’t be surprised if Tesla gets out of the car business altogether and switches to making batteries and charging systems for other companies. Might explain why they’ve been so lax in updating their current cars.