It will have instant torque. It’s probably very easily adequate for city driving, which is what a vehicle with a <100 mile range is intended for.

It’s a tool desgined for a specific job. It’s probably very good at that job. If this tool does not match your specific job, you buy a different tool.

Well, you can make a van as heavy as you want to and it would still be legal. However, as a driver you’d need a different drivers license. That’s the issue. If it would get over the 3.5 ton (maximum authorised mass) limit, you can’t drive it with a regular license.

I visited Venice (Italy) last week, which is just a 7 hour roadtrip from where I live. Which was quite lovely due to the relatively low number of tourists.

People immigrate to the US out of convenience. Because it’s the easiest first(ish) world country they can reach. If you live in Guatemala and want to emigrate without being a legitimate refugee and without having a job abroad, try physically getting to Germany, Australia, the UK or even Canada. It’s a lot easier to…

It’s over 25 years old so it’s eligible for import into the US. It’s not that hard or expensive at all.

Europeans don’t tend to be as uptight about this. Having said that, European market cars don’t tend to have switches labeled with a word. There tends to be an icon, number or letter. Having full words is something American. This van, despite being EUDM spec, is still very American.

I get that sentiment. I would never even consider a sporty car with combustion engine if it has an automatic transmission. But in a truck? Meh.

I would change that into:

people who can’t drive automatics do exist.

Agreed. I had a 1988 Peugeot 205 GTI with 300k, which looked and drove like it could take a lot more. My current 2000 Peugeot 406 coupe has 375k, which is barely broken in for its (base) gasoline engine as I’ve seen multiple with double those kms. And rust? Nothing, despite the salted roads in winter. Costs for…

I live in Munich too. Munich has the worst congestion in Germany, by far. The public transportation is poorly planned. Bicycle infrastructure? Bad. This city has grown like a cancer, with no thought behind it. The infrastructure is an utter joke.

You don’t have to get rid of your car.

That’s the exact same company though. Skoda = VW = Audi = NSU.

That’s why it is available in Europe already. Gasoline is roughly $5-6 a gallon ($ USD, US gallon), depending on the country.

Big cheap crossovers, it’s what Americans crave.

They don’t allow the VW Atlas either. It ist ein amerikanisches Auto.

The Golf is a compact, like the Corolla. The Corolla and Golf nameplates have both been around for roughly 5 decades. Both have been available as a 2 and 4 door hatchback, sedan (Jetta in some markets) and wagon for decades, even when some of those body styles were not available in the US. The Golf competes with the…

Of the two, it’s FCA that is most known for unreliability. Right?

Nissan needs Renault to survive, and would have been dead long ago without Renault.