You're giving Raph far too much credit with a response of this detail. 

We should combine some of them. New York and New Jersey will become New Jerk

Raphael Orlove: “Non-EVs should be banned now.”

You do realize this is literally, LITERALLY, how we buy anything else, right? If shit’s cheaper on Amazon than at Target then Amazon it is. Walgreens isn’t hiding the price of toothpaste because you might go snitch on them to CVS. 

Normal manufacturers do not make cars that are intended just fall apart after ten years. They get superseded by the next great thing, sure. But they don’t have important components that are designed to fail in that time frame, aside from consumables—which the MCU is not. As I said, the average age of a registered car…

“Excuse me, how much is this box of Cheerios? There was no price on the shelf.”

Isn’t that what’s become of Jalopnik?

I remember when Jalopnik used to enjoy and encourage car culture 

Agreed, and also as a fellow designer, I blame a few things for the recent trends in WTF automotive design:

The monolithic design with few, very precise lines demonstrates character and gives the car a modern appearance. The BMW iX is bold and yet clean and elegant.

I don’t cruise but I do travel. Giant cruise ship disgorging thousands of tourist locusts for 4 hour feeding frenzies has destroyed beautiful places such as Venice, the Greek Isles, and coastal Mexico. Just make it stop.

Their death toll per capita is quite a bit lower than the US’. It has worked, even if the virus is hard to get rid of.

The Honda E does not sell as it’s an inferior offering. You can get a bigger EV with 50% more range for the same (or less!) money. And where Honda is a niche manufacturer in Europe, its competitors are not. So, it totally makes sense that it has flopped.

200km WLTP is abysmal. I went for the VW Id3 Pro model with 520 WLTP, well aware that I will probably have to take 10-15% off that range under normal driving conditions. Still, that’ll give me more than 400km which is more than enough for daily driving and most of my overland drives. 200km is just too little. And the…

The Honda e isn’t selling well? I’m not really very surprised. Range seems to be the big factor when people are shopping for an electric car, and many just won’t consider an EV with poor range, regardless of what their daily driving habits are.

Take that $46k price with a grain of salt. A GTI starts around ~$44k in Germany but starts around $28k here. So that means $46k truck would really be closer to $29.5k here, which is right in line with the Colorado/Ranger/Tacoma once you step beyond the 2WD bare bones models everyone on here says they’d buy, but no one…

Nothing to do with light pollution, it just doesn’t comply with the vehicle lighting regulations (probably white light must not be visible from behind the car) . The light pollution story seems to all stem from the Daily Mail who are well known for making up shit just to incite anti EU anger in their readers.

The Daily…

It is true that it does not have US style freedom. The US style freedom is kind of a ‘F you, I’ve got mine’ freedom, while the western/northern European freedom is more about access to education/healthcare/democracy/pension/social mobility and whatnot.

He failed on brake issues and headlight issues. Both important safety issues. He also failed because the inspector was unfamiliar with the quirks of American cars, but this was ‘fixed’ without having to change anything. He also had a huge coolant leak.

German cars seem to be built with the assumption that the service schedule will be meticulously followed including every “replace x at x Km” and “adjust y at y Km”, and I’d trust a German mechanic to do exactly that so it won’t fail the TÜV.