I wouldn’t pay 5 grand for a Mitsubishi direct from the dealer, let alone one as old as I am.

Fiats gonna Fiat.

Now that we know Infiniti is pulling out of Europe,

Attractive, but I feel like for 50kEUR you could really have a custom-built bike that looks better.

Driving a heavy clutch sucks in traffic, and I have often worried about premature wear. I’ve owned several manual cars and I get it.

Plenty of drivers, if not a majority of them, don’t pay attention to their surroundings and are far more responsible for pedestrian deaths. If you can’t be attentive enough below 25mph to avoid most pedestrians, you shouldn’t be driving.

You really think knife crime is a big problem in Derbyshire? This isn’t exactly East London.

In Polestar blue, no less. Lovely.

This was a stupid design (as some tech specialists have explained in detail above), and it’s irrelevant to play the whataboutism game. Tesla is bricking cars due to a shit design, and that’s fair game to report on.

The only Nissan that shares a platform with Renault is the Rogue, which is a Nissan design. Also, Renault is in an alliance with Nissan - they don’t own them.

They’re super rare even here where you can buy them. I’ve only seen 4, and two of them were in the opening parade of the Tour de France. It’s a pity, they’re even better looking in person.

Paris only has a ban in place for diesels older than 13 years. I’ve seen Ram pickups both there and here in Brussels.

I’ve never seen an F-150 here in Belgium, but I do see a Ram every now and then, and very occasionally a Jeep.

Ford doesn’t sell all that well in Europe anymore. In the 90s, they had over 10% market share in the EEA, now about 6%. Most non-premium brands have also declined at the same time, but Ford doesn’t sell any luxury cars in Europe so they can’t make up the loss.

They’re lovely, though I still prefer the hardtop with a two tone paint scheme and weird spaceship taillights. 

My grandparents had two of the damn things, and they loved them. They’ve been unreliable garbage heaps. Between the poor driving experience and the awful build quality, I wouldn’t go anywhere near them.

Gas here is around 1.40 EUR/l, which comes out about $5.80/gal, and I still see plenty of AMG Mercs and high performance cars around. For a certain economic stratum, it doesn’t really matter.

Lol, like the UCS is the only analysis on the subject.

The rare earth point is mostly overstated - batteries don’t use much in terms of rare earths, and many of them are nearly 100% recyclable. UCS has a good explainer: https://blog.ucsusa.org/josh-goldman/electric-vehicles-batteries-cobalt-and-rare-earth-metals

It doesn’t matter what gasoline infrastructure cost - the electrical grid has basically universal coverage in nearly every developed country. Any alternative to BEVs has to compete with that. Building charging stations in houses (or apartments, or street-side - enough people live in houses for now to get adoption…