At best, it is a gray area that simply hasn’t been legally tested on this scale and outcome will be based on which court it goes through. Just because he says it is for anyone, does not mean he is acting legally by running it through a pro-trump PAC, showing up at Trump rallies, and telling everyone they should vote…

True that it doesn’t necessarily align exactly with that personality. I was more using it to reference a broad swing in what the VW bus was versus what it is. 

The old VW bus was especially known for being cheap and usable. This is like the car version of a 70s hippie that became a curmudgeon boomer executive.

It will remain a failure if Nissan is trying to get $45k+ for these things. Way too many better options in that $40k-$50k arena. 

but there is no great gas station food IMO

Hyundai in Alabama and recent child labor law reductions in Arkansas have been doing their best to prove that true.

It’s called Project 2025. Republicans have never been quiet about their determination to dismantle government oversight so for-profit companies get free reign and their determination to treat their watered-down version of the bible as the new constitution.

The Plymouth Prowler. I was young and knew nothing about cars, so how cool it looked was all I needed to imagine drag racing one of them.

I think those are transformers, based on an Egyptian documentary I saw a while back. 

Airports are usually when I get the best options, but rarely use them. I have a small Enterprise ~1/3 mile from house that I can walk to and I have a good relationship with the manager there, but they’re pretty slim on regular choices. Also, when my rentals are too nice, it can become an annoying conversation piece…

This is exactly the case. It is painfully slow, gets terrible MPGs, and it is very compact. Literally no good qualities. 

If We Can Figure Out How to Make Them

The Ford EcoSport was probably too boring for anyone to remember to put on this list. For reference, when getting rentals, I preferred the Trax, Mirage, Versa, and Sonic over an EcoSport. 

It stretched when you sat down, so more like a conforming leather. 

If Acura and Volvo get to be average, then Alfa should too. The Quadrifoglio definitely pushes that, but the low-level trims of the Gulia are fairly average cars that have a worse reputation than Volvo/Acura.

Doesn’t the V8 have an MSRP somewhere in the range of $70k? Anything over ~$60k and they are quickly competing with the Suburban & Expedition, and I can’t see a lot of people wanted a Grand Cherokee more than those.

I would be mildly amused if it ended up being some guy in one of those cosplay transformers costumes running out and turning into a car that can also roll a bit.

That sounds like some of the little things that could vary a lot from state to state and maybe even at certain counties within a state, depending on the state laws. I’ll leave it to the local drunks/DUI lawyers to deal with that and rely ‘don’t drink and drive,’ especially with Uber (et all) so readily available. 

At least in the states I have lived, refusing a sobriety test is treated as a failure. I’ve seen the online “advice” that if you think you’ll fail the sobriety test, you should refuse it and delay as long as you can for the blood test in hopes that it will take multiple hours to get there so your body has more time to…

I’ll call that an upgrade from just having a person drive a Tesla there, a guy in a robot suite pretending to be a robot, or Elon smashing the bullet proof windows on stage. At least this time the vaporware will remain vapor.