That’s incorrect. Tesla refused to have dealerships. The Dealerships for the companies listed fought against Tesla being able to sell cars directly instead of through dealerships.

lol ok. Ford sells 2500 of them a day, every day, but ok.

the article talks about how Prius cats are worth about 8x the ones on trucks and SUVs.

i’ve found it shockingly easy to not have an opinion of Markle. is Clarkson a sort of British William Shatner? he seems like a guy that got really lucky and has no obvious reasons to complain about anything but is shitty about everything anyway.

Edit: eh, i just remembered that Shatner’s wife drowned in their pool.…

“...according to Kia, you only get 287 hp when driving in Eco mode.”

I know it’s heavy af but this line is still crazy to read for an aging GenX. What a time to barely still be alive.

the question is whether anyone wants it. need’s got nothing to do with this.

you know what’s weird? as far as i can tell, there’s no rush. there’s no pressure on Chrysler from the public. nobody expects or needs anything from them. yah it’s also weird that it’s still around at all and they only have a minivan and an ancient sedan, but Dodge and Jeep and Fiat (in Europe anyway) are carrying the…

yah i think they had to wait for everyone that remembered the Airflow to die. David Lynch in Louie said something like, “If you want to make a comeback, first you’ve got to go away.”

yeah renting, or trying to buy a home right now is just as shitty as trying to buy a new car, for basically the same reasons. but if you owned by 2020 and don’t plan to move and your job situation didn’t get upended by the covids, a new car for $1k a month might not seem like the worst thing to do to yourself.…

i agree. i’d get a good vinyl wrap and try to find another owner that likes gross chrome wheels to do swapsies with. i’d much rather have the v12 too but 300hp in a car this size should still be fun. $7k is a price. not very nice but not very diceless.

i saw the Tonale at the L.A. Auto Show. it looks nice, i especially liked the wheels. but i have a maybe unreasonable hatred for the big red brake calipers that are clearly marked Mopar.

i know you’re joking but that would annoy the ever living fuck out of me.

oh ok. if you’re saying the Prius is kind of the default hybrid or that Prius is synonymous with hybrid i totally agree with you. making a car look kind of cool instead of weird and ugly, and more than doubling the horsepower without hurting fuel economy sounds legit to me, i wouldn’t call those gimmicks. but i would a…

eh i disagree with you. i don’t think anyone is buying a Prius to signal anything or for the name anymore. people buy it because it gets really good mpg and because all of the other cars with CVTs shit the bed at 100k miles.

i saw their display at the L.A. auto show. they looked kind of cool but also cheap/fake. like those cardboard box TVs you see at furniture stores.

yes.

best selling vehicle in the US for 40 years in a row, but please, keep trying to tell me it’s not average Americans that are buying it.

i saw a couple of these at the L.A. Auto Show. they didn’t open the back. as far as i could tell it’s a liftback and there definitely isn’t what i consider hatchback entry or space back there. i think it looks really really good, but it’s a commuter for sure. not designed to haul much or seat more than 2 on the…

the VW ID4 has this feature too. one pedal drivingish B is pretty great when i’m in stop and go traffic.

you’re just wrong. you don’t know what working class is. you won’t even google it, that’s all it would take. waitresses and plumbers are both working class. working class isn’t defined by gender. it’s not defined by race or ethnicity. it’s not defined by age. and crucially, crucially, it’s not defined by whether…