Where the forester really shines (and I say this as the owner of an outback), is the 100% normal roof rails onto which you can put your decades old Yakima or Thule crossbar rack and accessories, which is great when you’ve got canoes and kayaks and paddleboards. Additionally, while I LOVE my outback, having a little…

To be fair to toyota reliability, a friend just bought a Tacoma for his son as a first car- it has over 300k miles on it and it took them about a week to freshen up and make into a good first car. Not many vehicles you could buy with that many miles that still run well.

The F-150. in a perfect world, it would be the best selling truck in the country, a small category of vehicles populated by vehicles that are used for work.

I mean on paper, sure I guess. In the same way that SBF was worth 8 billion dollars until suddenly he wasn’t...

For most of it’s exstence, Tesla has gotten by by being the leader of a market that most auto manufacturers let them have, because it wasn’t worth it to them- they love it when someone else can be that…

Tesla’s vehicle designs are aging and honestly, weren’t that great to begin with. They were good, in that they were perfectly acceptable car shapes when everyone else was making electric cars that looked... weird (I’m looking at you BMW i3). And they have a good charging network. But... Tesla superchargers aren’t the…

If your faith is on such shaky ground that someone cheerfully saying “happy Holidays!” to you throws you into fits because they aren’t specifically honoring your particular holiday, maybe you don’t actually have any faith?

OK, that’s cool. And the improved all electric range would be absolutely perfect for the kind of driving I do- I’m either driving 450 miles or I’m running errands at home.

It’s a good and well intentioned start, but it doesn’t change the underlying problem- we don’t consider the parent who stays home with the kids, or the kids, when we design our transit systems.

She was a stylish west coast fashion industry person, not a car enthusiast :) - She wanted the look.

Crazy rich people story. when my aunt got engaged, her husband to be bought her one of these as an engagement gift. And my aunt, bless her magnificent sense of style, thanked him very much but let him know that he had bought the wrong mercedes convertible. She had always wanted the old style, gorgeous, yup, that’s a…

OK, so you’ve moved here from somewhere that had public options for mid-priced long distance travel and functional public transit for local stuff. So owning a fun car wasn’t really a problem.

Figure that range has to do with China seriously building out their charging infrastructure. They’ve built a crap ton of public chargers, which is easy to do when your government can just say, “you are going to build a crap ton of public chargers.”

I do outdoorsy stuff that involves roof racks so my Outback is about as tall a vehicle as I can deal with anymore- loading a 70 pound canoe up onto an SUV sucks, and tying them down isn’t fun either.

Because automotive performance is more than just “stuff big engine in big comfy truck.”

I had a 76 cutlass supreme and I will point out 2 issues that a driver of modern cars wouldn’t know about:
1: Those doors. They are soooo long that they make opening them in a crowded parking lot difficult- like, you can open the door but what you end up with is a tiny crack that slowly widens someplace far behind…

Less a type of car than a look, but here goes:

Except for one thing: our middle aged Gen Xer hates the trunk. She can’t fit that cool MCM chair she found at the thrift shop in the trunk, it doesn’t hold her bike and it gives her nowhere to sit and change her shoes after a ride. She ends up with a crossover because that crossover makes it easy to go to IKEA with no…

4-door hatchbacks need to make a return. Not wagons, not tall wagons, just good old 4-door hatchbacks. I think the sedan is dying for a reason, and that reason is, trunks are stupid and inefficient. SUVs and crossovers get bought because we all need a car that will do everything and that big ol’ hatch makes them crazy…

I mean, that’s the new mercedes AMG thingy...

I mean, we pretty much did get rid of them. And what’s left, leaf blowers and yard tools are getting phased out pretty quickly.