Has the whole car even made it to production yet? Lucid Vapor...

Fun fact: the tailgate was supplied by Checker Motors. My Dad worked at the plant where this vehicle was assembled. I can thank whoever bought this for the fresh set of Reebok Shaqs I wore to high school in 1994.

Oh, I think the ENVI team WAS serious. I think the engineers involved were definitely serious about keeping their jobs and developing platforms to compete with what was on the drawing board everywhere else, but Chrysler management saw it as a way to get green money and satisfy future CAFE requirements. I’d be curious…

Skinny tires, FWD, pushrod V6, low miles, this is a good winter beater if nothing else.

“Installation” may be a strong word. Most of these installations are probably plugged into existing 220v outlets in the garage for welders and power tools. If you can install a ceiling fan from Home Depot, you can install an EV charger. Most of these people probably aren’t excavating anything or running wiring from…

I can’t believe anyone still dresses up for Halloween after the age of 11, unless they’re a teacher or something. Your choices by that point are getting much more limited for appropriateness, and no, as a white man, I still don’t think it’s appropriate for white people to dress up as characters portrayed by Black or…

Production ready might be being kind. ENVI ended up being a prop for the 2008 bailout loans provided by the Bush administration and was shut down by Marchionne after Fiat bought Chrysler out of bankruptcy. The Circuit was a concept EV based on the Lotus Evora just like the Tesla Roadster, the Wrangler EV was a 2 wheel…

Funny thing about that, Chrysler made those promises before they were hoovered up by Fiat, and I think it was before the first Challenger SRT was even on the market. FCA had some pretty good small car platforms, but they were developed mostly by GM and didn’t make any money in the US. In fact, the Obama administration…

It’s a feature they’ve had for 40 years and every Ford owner I’ve known LOVES IT. Unfortunately, it was not offered on the Mustang and I managed to lock the keys in my trunk one crisp Friday evening, and had to pay a $100 lock out fee to my super to let me back into my apartment. I don’t know if they have done…

Considering General Motors developed the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle with Boeing, the rover design motif works well here.

I was really hoping the MV-1 would succeed so that people would have options other than essentially salvage-rebuilt minivans for a safe and reliable vehicle. I know it’s difficult to manufacture a vehicle that will accommodate wide-ranging disabilities in the population, but there has got to be a market for safer…

Of all of the worst takes I’ve seen from Raph, this is probably the worst of the worst. Especially quoting from “LeftVoice”? And he wonders why nobody returns his calls or emails anymore?

I’m amazed that you were able to register the vehicle. Most vehicles donated by manufacturers to schools have strict no-registration requirements and the vehicles are required by the manufacturer to be destroyed rather than sold. FCA ran headlong into that issue a few years ago when some high schoolers were killed…

1. Rear brakes on a 2015 Mazda 5. The little teeth on the wheel cylinder compressor from AutoZone does not fit the holes on the wheel cylinder, so you have to compress them by hand with a set of needle nose pliers.

I don’t think Bollinger is a fair comparison to Nikola or Lordstown. Tesla is not even in the same league as those three, as they have proven themselves as a volume manufacturer. Lordstown has GM backing them up with their suppliers, and Nikola has some money from GM, but they will likely either pull out or do a…

This is a fine classic automobile that could be a good way to start a small collection. You can drive it to local shows or trailer it fairly easily with the low weight. You will likely get your investment back out of it when you sell it unless you try to do a full frame off resto, which really won’t do much for a…

Hot take: This car will never come to market. Lucid doesn’t even have a plant built yet and they’ve been spending other people’s money since 2007. Some other company might purchase whatever’s left in 2025, but this car is pure vaporware. We’ll never see it in 2022 or any other year. Nobody spends 15 years developing a…

Honestly, it depends on the task and the status of my bank account at the time of the project. I tend to go the cheap route if I’m only using the tool once or sporadically, and invest in more expensive tools when I need precision or reliability.

This needs to be FCA/Stellantis’ next throwback project. Forget the Pacifica (which really isn’t a bad minivan) and bring back the Voyager and Caravan in true breadbox form.

Everything about this car screams “Project Car”. I think the Esprit is probably the best looking Lotus ever made and the price is probably in line with the market for something that needs basic maintenance, but the interior, wheels and skinny tires, and aftermarket engine mods makes the car worth about $10k less in my…