Hello, everyone, and welcome to Letters to Doug, your favorite weekly Jalopnik feature wherein I devote an entire…
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Letters to Doug, your favorite weekly Jalopnik feature wherein I devote an entire…
Wait! Is this the first comment where someone says I’m writing about it too much?
MARK YOUR CALENDARS EVERYONE, JUNE THIRD!
OK, so the Ferrari earned this comment after about 45 minutes. It took six months for the Skyline. Hasn’t happened yet with the Hummer. Oddly I write about each car roughly the same number of…
When will RCR be doing some sort of bad Asian accent during a review of this car? Also, will you let other people drive it? If so, can I drive it? Can you talk to Santa about getting me a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. Are you Santa? What happened to the mailman after dad came home early that one time?
I saw a couple of “DeMuro 2016” comments here, which gave me a vision of a country where drive thru’s and toll booths are exclusively RHD friendly, bluetooth is illegal, and the Liberty Bell’s been replaced by a cracked H1 engine block.
Because then Ford and Chevy would make sure that you aren’t allowed to go 10 years without buying a new car, and all Jeeps would be illegal to drive.
I live in a state with no vehicle inspections whatsoever and I can’t even begin to explain some of the heaps that I see rolling around. Several cars with no working brake lights whatsoever, which is truly unbelievable. Emissions tests, yeah whatever, but working brake lights and stuff that keeps other people safe…
Because 10th amendment?
Because America...
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Absolutely, unequivocally, categorically bat shit fu**ing crazy. It is absolute calamity with a huge economic disparity in what you see on the road. Brand new G65 AMG next to an old beat up and un-maintained VW transporter van that is over-filled (they use them as public transport). So you get the dudes in the shitty…
Let me tell you something. I’ve worked for two different dealerships, and I’ve worked in sales operations at a corporate level for a major automaker. If I found out that a dealer wasn’t allowing test drives on a car that cost the same as a base 3 Series, I would be absolutely livid.
OMG!! It isn’t “someone else’s letter” It’s MY LETTER. THANK YOU DOUG! I <3 You (husband don’t read this!)
My guess would be this is because domestic midsize luxury SUVs (of which there are precisely two) are laughably outdated and nobody buys them.
Except Lexus won’t sell me the TX, because it doesn’t exist. Acura has been putting a third row in the MDX since the 2001 model year. That is fourteen years. Where the hell is this phantom TX? Where was it in 2001?
Here’s a better question: Why does the RX even have a second row? Has anyone ever toted more than one other person in one of these things?
Oh H1s have bolt-in third rows? I didn’t know that. I assumed the cargo area would still be full of tear-stained “Romney 2012” signs from the previous owner.
And yet, it still seats one more than your Hummer.
I like the styling as well. Even if you think it’s ugly, it has a huge presence on the road, and is a huge reason to buy one over one of its German rivals. Also, no third-row seating means either more wiggle room inside or a smaller, lighter CUV. Strap yo’ kids to the groceries and soccer balls if you run out of seats!
I can’t believe I just read an entire article about the third row of seats in a car I will never own.