Nah. Too big, too tall and too heavy. It’s a crossover. There’s nothing wrong with admitting that.

Yes, they both have wheels.

When critical thinking isn’t something you are known for and you live in a bubble, an echo chamber, where that trope is repeated you might start believing it.

It’s the media bubble some people are surrounded by. A media bubble that questions established science yet parrots economic and societal theory that has no basis in reality.

In the UK. Tax included. So, cheaper than a Golf GTI in the UK.

The previous reviews on Jalopnik were about generic crossovers and work vehicles. Articles you can sadly skip without reading. They finally review an enthusiast vehicle, and now you complain?

One reason is that car prices outside of the US tend to include taxes.

Aren’t trailer brakes a given over 1k lbs? The quoted European tow rating is for trailers with brakes. Without brakes it will be around those 1k lbs (maybe 1.5k lbs), in Europe.

I can understand that. Luckily the safety aspect is generally not a problem in public transportation in most Western countries that are not the US.

Commuting in a traffic jam is not ‘driving free’. This slogan is not about commuting in an urban environment with (in europe) faster and cheaper available alternatives to traffic jams. It’s not about being boxed in by horrific crossovers, crawling forward at 5 mph.

Had this been the US you’d have a point. But it’s not the US. Poor people are typically not commuting by car to the city center of a city like Madrid. Not in 2019, but also not in 2000 or 1990. They tend to have faster and cheaper alternatives.

It’s amazing how some Americans think that their cities with their third world infrastructure is somehow representative for the developed world. It is not. Other countries have more history and culture (and thus less space for cars) and far better public transportation.

The Applause was pretty quick for what it was, in that era (early 90s). It weighed less than a tonne, empty. At the competition the base engine tended to have far less power, while weighing more. Even with the loest tier engine *upgrade* the competition tended to be slower. Sometimes with the second tier engine…

IF they truly improve efficiency by 20%, then $100 every 50k miles is an amazing bargain.

I visited the US for a few weeks in 2016 and had an Impala (old model) as a rental. Horrible car. Anyway, given the long straight roads something that is comfortable and nothing else makes sense. And when everyone else is driving some kind of huge tall vehicle, you feel less secure in something lower and more sensibly…

GM waved the white flag in Europe in 2017 and is currently easily outsold by Tesla. Chrysler never really participated and Fiat is throwing all their eggs in the North American basket, so they are nothing but a shadow of their former self. With evaporating sales as a result.

They will get pissed when the market share (1 million units a year, 6.5% market share) in Europe evaporates. That, however, won’t happen within the next few quarters, so the share holders will be happy today.

The automakers are stuck between a rock and a hard place when consumer desire does not match the requirements of regulation.

I am very curious what Ford will do in Europe. They are huge in Europe. They are the 4th best selling label, after VW, Peugeot and Renault. And they’re very close to the latter two. https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/q1-2019-europe-best-selling-car-manufacturers-and-brands/ (other manufacturers have multiple…

The upside is that Wilders, the guy on the right, has no chance of holding office. The other two though, it’s as if the US and the UK are playing a game of “hold my beer!” A race to the bottom.