Jalopnik has had several articles over the years that I read as having a theme of something like “making cars is hard.” This appears to be a fairly accurate statement.

Exactly, its the experience, the complete package in terms of what a car can be when you have no obligations. From the looks to the noise the engines produce. How are they going to differentiate themselves from other fast EVs that drive and sound almost exactly the same? can you really justify a premium on looks and…

Can we start an online petition to have Val Kilmer, Michael Ironsides and Anthony Edwards do an ad campaign?

IDK... i dont haul a ton of stuff around, and i dont want an enormous truck, but sometimes i do haul stuff that i absolutely dont want inside the car. i dont mind the idea of dropping the tailgate for larger shit either.... right now I drive a sedan as my daily, but also have a 92 chevy half ton for other shit... I…

I just hope it comes with stability control as standard equipment. Nobody wants to spin - flat or otherwise - in their new truck.

I’m ready for the Small Truck Guy excuses now:

Two door trucks are a dying breed, relegated only to small percentage of commercial sales. I too, would prefer a two-door, but there’s no way they’re producing anything but four-door short beds.

How many actually see a trail regularly or any other form of truly rugged driving? Most of them are just cool looking family vehicles that see the occasional camp site, so that market is probably too small to appease. 

Counterpoint: it’s literally slower than a Camry.

The Camry is basically a rocket ship today compared to the dented, beige turd that springs to mind when we hear “Camry.” I mean, it hits 60 in ~5 sec. Does that mean a GTI, Veloster N and WRX are slow turds? Or is the more expensive Camry pretty quick, and that’s fine?

I’m almost 40 and married and will absolutely consider this as my next car. But whatevs.

I bought a F type R for this very reason.

I’m more impressed to learn that a Crosstrek is capable of getting to 60MPH

They’d already shown us with the first series of V8 Vantage what it looks like when you machine a late 60s Mustang out of a solid ingot of money; here they do the same for a late 70s Trans Am.* And I mean that in the very best way, as in, “if I hit the Powerball, we shall see if this car is for sale.”

“The letter, which was published on a radical left platform”

The irony of “environmentalists” setting a fire, likely using gasoline, to sabotage an electric car company. They just created more pollution, not just in burning the cables, but in the new emissions required to ship and install replacement cables.

11 radiators and the engine ALONE weighs 490 kg.

To be fair, unnecessary fires aren’t great for the environment either.....

When I first saw one I was amazed at how small the thing was, I’d seen all these pictures and videos and in my head had scaled it up to the height of a regular car, but it isn’t.  In my opinion the thing looks much, much better in the metal than it does in photos.

It’s the kids that do it, you (rightfully) would feel bad about spending that kind of money on a luxury when it could be spent on their college fund or something to make their lives better. While you could afford a truck, it isn’t a priority for you so the cash outlay makes no sense.