Can’t decide between the XM or the iX - both entirely revolting.

It is definitely van time. Nothing else will give you that much interior space which can easily be switched from seating to cargo capacity while also providing a low step in height for the large dogs. They’ll have a harder time climbing in and out of vehicles as they get older, so plan ahead for that with a vehicle…

they sound terrible too.

Oh please, give it a rest. DSG is a million times better than manual, especially in heavy traffic.

No you didn’t. 

EVs are appliances.  What’s next?  Our refrigerators will start making vroom-vroom sounds?  I’d rather let ICE + manuals die a dignified death than go this route.

Half of new manuals are totally nanified. It is almost impossible to stall a new mini. If you do manage the herculean feat, it just restarts itself.

As much as I welcome our brave Orca comrades to the resistance, I can’t help but feel that their days are probably numbered. They don’t seem to realize that they are not the alpha predator on the planet, and are really beginning to annoy the actual alpha predators (rich people).

I know towing isn’t hauling, but my full size Ford gets around 30% less mileage when towing the camper. Pulling/carrying weight takes more energy whether it’s from dino-juice or batteries.

I’m certain that Britian will respond by immediately giving back almost everything in their museums that they “collected” over the centuries...

Until they are better than a horse... (100 years ago)

I worked in the electricity distribution industry for almost 20 years. People who think EVs are going to take over overnight are clueless.

Older cars were often considered safe for their time, but new cars are so much safer, it’s not even a contest. But for some reason, there’s a certain subset of people who continue to insist that old cars were safer before crumple zones, airbags, anti-lock brakes, etc. I was simply pointing out that new cars are safer…

Ford GT40. The original [then] 40 year old design needed virtually no tweaking to be reimagined as a “modern” car in 2005. And now 18 years later (Christ, has it really been that long?) it could still release today and look perfectly fresh. Honestly the 2nd gen (2015) GT, as lovely as it is, probably won’t age as well…

The mid 2000s audi A5 aged extremely gracefully. Partly because of it’s design and partly because most every other car company started barrowings from it’s design.

Part of what makes this interesting is that car design really hasn’t changed as much as we all thought it would while watching Minority Report or Demolition Man. There are easy “timeless” choices that litter the comments right now that I don’t think hit the mark of “unexpected.” There was one very good Volvo choice in…

There’s a lot of obvious answers, but one that sticks out to me whenever I see them is the W203 C-Class, especially the C55 AMG. It’s a simple design, not hard lines that are still attractive but place it in firmly in the 90s or older. And not overly styled, just a good looking car.

I remember seeing a stock Jaguar XK8 convertible a while back and thinking, you know what, that car still looks good. Sure it looks a bit “of it’s time period”, but it is aging well. Personally I prefer the coupe, but i don’t think it’s design has held up as well as the simple lines of the convertible.

The Pontiac Aztek.

I am a former employee of Saab Cars, USA. It angers me to no end that auto journalists now go on and on about how much they miss Saab in the marketplace. This is the same group of folks who made fun of the car, or tore it apart for those things that made it unique. There was a reason for all those things you made fun…