Me? I’d go for a Volvo or Subaru wagon and make it into a bit of a safari car — roof rack/basket for camping stuff or kayaks, knobby tires for a bit of trail capability, add some lights and maybe a push bar to the front end, etc. Outfit the interior with a 12V fridge (maybe powered by a solar panel on the roof?). It’d…

Yep.  I just view it as billionaire funded research into automotive/material engineering.

I mean children exist, they aren’t all that aware of their surroundings all the time. It’s not that bad of an idea to have extra noise at low speeds.

LMAO, Tom woke up and chose violence today with this rec. Is there proof anywhere of someone LS-swapping a TourX? Won’t deny it sounds like a riot, but it also sounds like something a lot more complicated than “assume someone will charge 40 grand to do it”.

Chrysler, there’s no reason for this brand to exists anymore. They only have the aging Pacifica that could easily be sold as a Dodge, and that fossil they call the 300 that is probably already out of production.

I’ve been behind the new Santa Fe and it has the ugliest rear I’ve seen in some time

Can’t even get a peaceful transfer of power in the crane world.

The Nissan Altima. Not because of anything that’s the car’s fault as it’s a perfectly serviceable car...

Oh boy do I have a video for you.

So yeah, sounds a lot like something we’d do in the US.

This is standard industry practice. Every new car review you’ve read happens this way, only we disclose it up front.

In my experience the only journalist I’ve seen on a press trip who paid for airfare and lodging was WSJ. We don’t have WSJ money, so we accept Audi’s invitation and disclose it up front.

I didn’t love…

LOL.....hahahahha. If you think “serious conflicts of interest” are going to matter to those in the Trump Admin, boy do I have some bridges over the Pacific to sell ya. The 1st go-around was CoI, one after another. In this one it will likely be a mandatory thing. As will breaking rules/laws, followed by Trump pardons…

“We continue to be stuck in a reality where it takes longer to do the government paperwork to license a rocket launch than it does to design and build the actual hardware,”

As much as I hate to ever defend Musk

This vehicle is antithetical to VW.  There is no such thing as a $70k “people’s car”.  VW has always offered style at a premium but within their own models that uniquely styled vehicles have never been significantly more expensive than the platforms they were based on.  The new beetle certainly had unique styling and…

Driving my non-lifted, stock-tire-sized 1997 GMC 1500 long bed, two tone Silver on dark red with matching dark red interior:

I’d probably use many of the same reasons you did…except for the environmental friendliness comment. An EV is so wildly more efficient at converting stored energy to motion that it easily offsets any challenges in production. At this point, you have to be willingly holding onto misinformation to believe otherwise.

I would buy a challenger/charger/300C. Or a manual Wrangler.

This critique seems to be lacking in hypothesis and resolution. There are some elements that suggest that this is not in fact a critique but a bad faith argument in defense of Musk and his grift.