Here’s today’s puzzler: Wealthy Americans are more than willing to spend upwards of $150k on a fast, practical wagon. Why can’t anybody get them to spend $30k on a kinda fast, practical wagon? Is the venn diagram of “people who can afford and buy ultra luxury cars” and “people who like wagons” just a perfect…

Yeah, if I remember correctly, he contributed to the “Tesla Deathwatch” blog (and got egg on his face from Tesla not only surviving, but doing much better than they predicted), so there seems to be some kind of long running grudge against Tesla for some reason the colors all his commentary. If Munro might be biased…

What’s worse is that they probably can’t fix it. The unibody is probably slightly out of spec. As we all know, a mm here, a mm there, eventually you’re talking real gaps.

Neutral : Dodge. It's what they're doing anyway. 

Bannon bilked Trump followers. Trump pardons Bannon. Followers rejoice. Irony, schadenfreude, and cosmic justice all in one package.

It is literally both of those.  It is metaphorically neither of those.

I’ve just realized that one of the reasons the Porsche looks so good compared to all other EV’s is that they’ve always been designing cars with next to no front grille.

There is very little on a Porsche lot I’d consider buying these days, but given I had the cash laying around to plonk down on anything with a Porsche crest, you can bet it would be this.

if I leave my car running but take the key fob with me, the shifter is locked out, so that concern isn’t a huge deal depending on the car. 

Fun alternative fact.

In the US market? The Fiat 500 and 500 Abarth. Appreciated by enthusiasts, but generally underappreciated by everyone. I’ll even include the 124 Spider as a bonus answer.

No matter what one might think, the answer to this question is not and never will be the Pontiac Aztek.

They’re relatively cheap for the size and features you get, and even the V6 is quicker than the average midsize sedan. I just read something on Road and Track from Jack Baruth where he compared the Charger and 300 to an Accord back in 2018-ish, and stereotypes about quality and resale aside, they’re actually pretty…

You can count me towards the .01% of readers that found this interesting.

https://jalopnik.com/what-its-like-to-drive-the-crap-out-of-and-drag-race-a-1832935564

I think we do have to consider priorities, though. I want my 401K to be reliable, steady growth until I can start withdrawing at retirement... where much of Wall Street feels like a gambling version of musical chairs. Buy cheap, pump the short term numbers, sell out before the chickens come to roost. There are two…

there are two main factors pushing autonomous vehicles:

The guy who works for a car site and willfully subjects themselves to the misery of air cooled VW ownership hates cars?

You’re blinded by your hate of change and progress that you can’t see that people can like cars and also understand the myriad issues that come with them.

I would trade my gas daily driver for an EV…

“Can someone help me understand why the heck there’s such a big push (billions and billions of dollars) for autonomous cars?”

To be fair, not every light on the BMW’s dash is illuminated.