Everything with an internal combustion engine that won’t be fun to drive with a manual. This would include heavy vehicles (>1.5-1.7 tonnes empty) and vehicles with a very disconnected driving experience.

Lets flip this. What cars should have a manual?

even $24K Golfs

I suspect Oz has wildly less income inequality than the US.

Even more brands for Stellantis? I thought the idea was to discontinue a few, like Chrysler.

You van buy a new Eclipse at the local Mitsubishi already. AWD and turbocharger included. It is a crossover though :(

If you want Cadillac to be the standard of the world, you have to think of what the world wants. When you were to build this with a V16, the rest of the world might have been impressed... In 1995.

Not just in the US. Alfa moved its focus from Europe to the US roughly a decade ago, and the results in Europe are what you would expect; a massive loss of market share. Recent Alfas used to somewhat common. Not anymore.

We are talking about Dodge here. Surely Italian production will reduce panel gaps and might even improve reliability.

Inam bit familiar with Matthias Schmidt, but based on his highly Germanic name I doubt he's speaking for Italy.

I think it’s Jalopnik that is touting Italy, not Italy itself.

First you’d have to define which kind of vehicles would qualify. Would an electric bicycle qualify for the identical subsidy as a Nissan Leaf? That’s the point here as well. Like an electric bicycle, the vehicle from the article is not considered to be a ‘car’ in the traditional sense. Which is why it did not qualify. 

The problem is that this vehicle is not seen as a ‘car’. It does not have the same requirements for taxation/safety/inspection/insurance and whatnot. Which is why it does not qualify for these car-specific subsidies.

That looks like a work truck. The US mostly does lifestyle trucks.

In Jalopnik speak a hatchback is small and crappy, and a sedan is a not-tall car. Until it isn’t. At least I get that impression from some writers. It is quite weird.

The US market is not a very import one for VW. Their volume and profit is achieved elsewhere. Additionally, these VW EVs are relatively new and haven't had a lot of opportunity to sell yet.

You should always drive in the right line, regardless of speed. You only move left when there is slower traffic ahead and it's safe to move left.

That doesn’t happen. Big rigs only overtake other big rigs during normal conditions. And since they both have speed governors limiting them at *roughly* 90 kmh, the speed difference between the two while overtaking is always glacial.

Diversity is... diverse. There are lots of ways someone can experience being disadvantaged. By having a specific ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation, religion and so on. Just because someone ticks a specific box they were born with (like ‘white’ or ‘male’) does not automatically make them entirely unqualified…

Good on Ford. However, I do take some offence to this: