The MKT is the best choice. Big, luxurious, ugly (makes it cheap), and most important — it will double as a hearse when necessary.

Or the Lincoln version, the MKT.

Ecoboost Flex. Should be a little more fun than a standard van and easy ingress/egress. Have your mom try the seats first. 

Have it. Love it.

Not if you want to lock both your keys and your phone in the car.  Presumably to go skinny dipping.

I have this feature on my Focus and my wife’s Explorer. Very handy to have, as I’ve unintentionally locked my keys in the car at least once since I’ve owned it, and do lock my keys in on purpose when I don’t want to have them with me for some reason. My kids know the code as well, so they can open the car if they need…

I don’t know your situation, so this might not apply to you. I know a few people that proudly pay cash for a car instead of financing, and it just doesn’t make sense. Financing is so cheap right now. We’re talking like 2-3% from your bank/credit union, not as an incentive on new cars. Much more than the 2-3% financing…

‘24 payments left at $650 a month (rolled in equity from trading another lease in too soon’

You missed the bit about notifying the highway patrol?

Well, what sort of standards are these cars built to?

They did find out and ran a software update “over the air”.  HA!!!!

Once Tesla hears that you didn’t pay for the optional convertible package, you’ll be getting a bill in the mail.  

“Daddy, the top came off...”

First - it was JFK, not JFK Jr. that told Americans we were sending men to the moon. Learn your grade school history.

Seems to be more and more common the past few years, doesn’t it?

Yes. Star for you.

~2 million EVs were built last year, worldwide.

All great questions. This article should be a thought exercise along the lines of “what would happen if the ban went into effect tomorrow?”

Instead, we have from-the-hip word vomit with absolutely zero critical thought put into it. Like most things Raph and Erik spit out, this take seems to be nothing more than being…

Doing what they’re doing is a far more complicated policy decision than you’re identifying - with plenty of complications and problems that make 2035 an aggressive deadline. Just a few of them: