Probably not. Some airbag suppliers started using ammonium nitrate as the “inflator” of choice about 20 years ago which was more powerful, yet cheaper, than the old sodium azide inflators. The problem is that once the combustion chamber starts to degrade in high-humidity environments, it can’t handle the higher…

“Package layout” makes me wonder if there was a structural issue in the back or they needed more battery space near the back seats, so the midgate was a no-go. The original Avalanches required significant structural enhancement with the flying butresses in the back on the Suburban body. Too bad, I think it would have…

Trump will never serve a day in custody, ever. Trump. Will. Never. Serve. A. Day. In. Custody.

Kansas City is at that fine dividing line between rust bucket hell and pristine. It’s difficult to find classics around here that aren’t missing rockers and floor pans, but the frames are usually okay. You almost never see restored cars on the road after the first snowfall, though. Too much risk of getting road salt,…

4th gear: you will not find a more protectionist nation than France. Having a logo that resembles in any way a logo from a native company, especially Citroen, Peugeot, or Renault, is going result in fines and banishment. Polestar should be concerned about even sharing letters in their name with any of those three if…

Oh. I fondly remember my HHR...

Never let facts get in the way of Jalopnik’s agenda or Farley’s (weird) hatred of all things GM. Fact is that GM beat Ford and every other manufacturer other than Tesla to getting a mass-market EV with real battery range to production. The Hummer is a halo vehicle and will never sell in sufficient numbers to return…

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…