I’ll take your word for it that you legitimately need a larger vehicle. That said, I’ve never understood the American penchant for gloating about wasting money.

Is it because you think a lot of the market segment looks similar?

One can hope that much like it happened with station wagons and minivans, as Gen Z ages they will come to look upon SUVs as dad and mom cars and reject them outright.

I’d consider an BEV if not for the PHEVs out there. It seems to be the sweet spot, for now. I currently drive a Prius for low TCO. I was hoping the Voltec platform would continue, but I guess I might be looking for a used car soon and I haven't bought a used car as a primary vehicle in 25 years. I think the Mitsubishi…

Neutral: The minute I can switch I’m gonna. There’s nothing I enjoy less than pulling into a reeking stretch of concrete to handle toxic, flammable liquids in order to pay a large corporation to help destroy the environment.

Neutral: I really don’t want a full electric vehicle. I feel the Voltec platform was the next step in evolution (unfortunately not in a vehicle that excited the masses) and would like something like that in a pickup truck that can haul 1,000 lbs and tow 7,000 lbs.

Not today it doesn’t!

I’ve had a VR headset since July. I haven’t regretted buying it for a second. I haven’t had that “whoa!” moment in videogaming since I first upgraded from an NES to N64 and booted up Mario 64(Parents wouldn’t get me a SNES for some reason). Since then, every other piece of hardware in the form of GPU’s, new Consoles…

So pumped for this!

Well, what they actually want is practicality and a car that doesn’t require a team to get in and out of.

Because they’re *standard* tests. They are repeatable and typically based on worst case scenario and rated based on that. That an impact with another vehicle may be less severe is irrelevant. There are many cars on the roads, semis, and infrastructure objects that do not have crumple zones. If they designed for the…

Humans aren’t infallable, they will still make mistakes regardless of how much training they have.

How do you suggest we “increase driving standards”?

I mean... how would you go about “making drivers better”? 

Donald Trump, however, wants to replace NAFTA with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement

2nd Gear: Good. I am rapidly becoming an old, and even I think the EV revolution can’t come fast enough.
My wife knows I will have a Rivian in a year or two, but I may need to start with a Volt. It did take some time to get to the realization that I am on my last ICE vehicle, but my daughters are 5 and 7.
I owe it to…

EV’s are debatable on environment benefit

The main separater there is the massive amount of subsidizing that is steered to the oil industry without public recognition.

No one’s talking about the fact that the new, all-electric Porsche Taycan delivers the equivalent of 90 miles per gallon in the city.

2nd gear