I've rebuilt a T and worked on a couple of them for local owners (I'm 40 btw) and they're both good and bad cars. They definitely take some getting used to when it comes to driving, but most of the materials were actually good quality for the time. But having also rebuilt a Model A, it was amazing just how much of a…

It was a way of getting around that didn’t have to be fed whether you were using it or not and didn’t randomly emit poop in the general direction of your face when in operation, so there’s that.

And the standard control layout that we went on to use is not the one Ford tried to push with the Model T. It was a bad layout that was counterintuitive even at the time. It was just so cheap that people were prepared to overlook it.

The Model T I can at least sort of see - it wasn’t popular because it was good, it was popular because it was common and cheap, more or less from the start (absolutely makes it important and influential though). Furthermore, the Model T was wildly outdated by the time it was discontinued, so not good *by the standards…

You’re right, decorum is more important than action. It was very rude of me to suggest that Washington or Nashville should do anything to help their constituents. It’s natural that they should leave people to their own devices while they process their emotional trauma and I’m being very unkind suggesting that they…

Even better than 1 Miata..? 39 Miata’s:

Citroen

It’s a Citroen SM. (1970-1975)

Isn’t it (left to right) Citroen SM, 80's Maserati Quattroporte, Maserati Gran Turismo, late BMW 2002, today’s XJS?

Going to get that all fixed up in time for the Olympics in 2028, though. Right? 

That was certainly my very first impression.

Yeah, like same size, overall shape, and stance, plus a lot of similar details like the C-pillar and the lower doors. Do we know for sure this isn’t just a lightly-re-skinned Rivian???  I like the Scout front end better.

Oh man, I attended the first drive of this thing, hahaha...

It’s in the Bay Area. So it’s at least worth something to someone to tinker with. A technical college or high school, perhaps?

Drive it more.  

You mean NP, right?

They picked this specifically to get a >95% NP on the books. $3k for a travel car that you can put another 50k-100k highway miles on? I’d buy it right now if it wasn’t already sold.

The 05 Phaeton W12 had an MSRP just south of 100 grand. The Arteon is 45-50k depending on spec. VW hasn’t limited themselves to budget cars in a long time. And frankly no VW is a “people’s car” anymore - the demand constant thorough maintenance beyond what most Japanese cars require, they eat oil like it’s canapes at…

The other major consensus happening in these comments is, regardless of hybrids, the obvious solution is EV for the day-to-day and ICE for road trips, towing, etc.

This is so fundamentally obvious that it’s a huge thorn in my side... My wife and I are driving 16 and 13 year old cars respectively and are very much in…

I have a 110 mile per day round trip and have for the past 3 years done it in a Chevy Bolt without issues. I have taken it on several work trips for training and customer visits. I think people drastically overestimate their needs and perceived inconvenience. Additionally, I don’t get the rated range because I drive…