TLDR;

“We don’t know much about the car, what kind of power it makes,...”

So, has Nissan’s variable compression engine made any difference to sales? Did anyone care at all? 

“Take the issue of “young people,” for example, who very much aren’t interested in motorcycles these days (in America, at least)...”

Imagine what went wrong in the first 30K miles that prompted the owner to trade in. I bought my Tacoma with 25K miles and thankfully have spent nothing on repairs over the next 40K.

So Germany is stuck with a whack-load of Chrysler diesel minivans! Ha that’s the best retribution for dieselgate!

It is surprising that springs haven’t sagged over 30 years.

So you’ve seen bright yellow, fake traction bars on front wheel drive cars before?

I think I saw Popular Science magazine cover stories which made the same points.

1st: What if all AVs looked like penises? That way an AV entering a tunnel would literally look like a flying fuck!

Just playing devils advocate, he’s in farm country, likely with little traffic on a weekday. Probably just shuffling it between local properties. Does no one have a sense of humour anymore ;)

Now if only they will start designing pickups based on the Eurovan platform. 

Neutral 2. Nice. I think those 701 ‘pilen’s are going to be future classics. Unfortunately, I don’t think many units will be sold (at least at the current MSRP). My local Husky dealer is heavy into dirt and says no-way to the street models.

I’m kind of surprised that this wasn’t the headline of the story. Amazon must be sitting back and waiting for the best deal after the ICE vehicle apocalypse. They can have their pick of the litter of factories ready to start pumping out electric vans and cars.

Thinking the same thing. But...where are the doors??

I had two different Jettas as rental cars out of Chicago, O’hare.

“buy them for like $800 at auction, we’d clean them up, replace what needed to be replaced and sell them for $3,995 all day long”

“its interior will be one big screen”

Good to know. I almost exclusively use an independant mechanic who will fix things, rather than just replacing entire assemblies. The Mazda dealer wants to replace a $1700 rear diff to fix an ‘irreparable’ broken wire in the actuator solenoid.  

That trailer hitch still looks nicely painted. Unless its newly installed, I’d expect 10 years of road salt to destroy the hitch finish.