Well, nobody seems to be willing to ask, so I’ll step up:

She is a wonderful young lady who my son met in second grade, and they have been in each other’s hip pockets ever since.

There’s a certain minimum size to the batteries, you nailed that. If you want to fit a decent amount of capacity aboard that will dictate a certain volume; to make that fit without encroaching too heavily on the interior of the vehicle, you wind up with a longish-widish flat pack that, once you’ve made the vehicle big…

I don’t see why not, the US has been taxing the lower- and middle-class earners for a long time. They sneak their way in.

It is most definitely not my cup of tea, but this is cheap money for a lightly used, high-zoot (if we can apply that term to a Ford product) sport-ute that appears to be in good shape.

Worse, they came up with the name first and then decided it needed to be an acronym. “Bi-drive,” I mean - c’mon. The “recreational all terrain” presents itself, but if they’d gone with the less goofy Four Wheel Drive, it’d have been then FRAT.

You aren’t wrong.

Mine.

Want to encourage more people to stop buying big, inefficient trucks? Make EVs look more attractive?

No you didn’t:

No sarcasm.  Manual everything, please, and let’s leave off the Apple Carplay while we’re at it.

On top of an already high 8.7 inches.  Foresters come with a lot of clearance, standard.

The streets are tiny because when they were first laid out in the 13th century, there were no cars or buses and a goat with a small cart wasn’t much wider than a person.

My dad’s VW spent enough time in the shop that he became pretty disenchanted with the engaging drive.

I’m not on board with the “Prius is boring” meme, but it isn’t exactly exciting, either. It’s no canyon carver but it goes where you point it and stops when you tell it to - far more important than going, frankly.

In years it’s old but in miles that engine is just a toddler. They don’t make big power - unless you’re Power Nation on YouTube and have a turbo laying around - but what they make, they make forever.

If you can’t stand the idea of a hybrid, consider a first-gen Scion xB, if you can find one:

Prius V:

‘Round about 2005 Subaru adopted a flying vagina design motif a la Edsel and was met with approximately as much positive reception as the Edsel was in its own time.   I think it lasted all of two years before they dropped it for something more conventional.

Too much gimcrackery. I’d like a manual five speed, locking diffs and a 4LO range in the transfer case, please. And not one bit of it automated.