ASS isn’t meant to improve fuel economy. ASS is meant to reduce idle emissions.

Start/Stop technology, and the inability to permanently turn it off.  You have to disable it every time you drive your car (at least on Toyotas).  It is annoying as fuck and I’m not getting any better gas mileage than my old car of the same model without the “feature”.

Because Pontiac was ditched before we started actually having useful discussions about appropriating the names of oppressed minority groups to sell products?

Here’s the thing.  Big tires?  roof racks?  slight lift?  These are the things that are easily and cheaply solved in the aftermarket.  You know what these models NEED and can’t be provided by the aftermarket?  Transmissions that don’t pull power, overheat and die after 50,000 miles when used off-road.

If the company doesn’t make it, that’ll be a Swiss miss.

Prices have already come down something like 80% in 5 years, and more efficient panels are developed every year, so yeah, it’s not far off! 

I think one of the problems with being a 53 year old on this site is actually remembering when shitboxes like this one came out.  They were shitboxes then, too.  I do not recall anyone thinking that the world needed a Chrysler/Maserati collaboration and we were right.  It didn’t.  NO DICE at any price.  Some things…

“Because, for reasons I cannot begin to understand, people are buying crossovers instead. Even the best crossover is a kind of “worst of all worlds” compromise that’s too dumb to really live, too profitable to die — a warning to future generations about perverse incentives. The Honda Odyssey, on the other hand, is to…

I’ve always equated minivans to fanny packs - very useful and utilitarian, and I wouldn’t be caught dead with one. 

I spent almost 20 years in the distribution side of the auto electric business. The German components, especially from Bosch and Siemens were the junkiest stuff in the American market, and far from being complex or over engineered, in fact just the opposite. Bosch starters lacked simple things like gaskets and o-rings…

No, it’s more brittle than regular plastic, and lasts approximately 1/10 as long.

This is one of those concepts that is “fine” if you play its rules, but will be indescribably maddening if you need it to do something counter to its logic.

This is design hubris.

Nah. Plug-in hybrid with a little 4-cyl to keep the batteries from fully draining. Then you wouldn’t need nearly as big of a battery pack.

This is really bad advice.

PHEVs are fantastic for a particular use case, but lots of people don’t fit in that use case. I spent $50 on gas in all of 2020 for my PHEV Pacifica.

Never have I been so angry about being an American. 

If the ad disappears, we’ll know it Cayman went.

Even better here’s the reply I want from a dealer:

Your guess would be wrong.