Brace yourselves for the orthodontics jokes...

We will never know since the CCP suppresses any data that makes them look bad.

Hyundai’s “$7,500 Lease Bonus Cash” is bullshit. I test drove a Kona EV at Vision Hyundai in Rochester, NY and when I came back I talked lease prices with the sales person. I had just read online about the bonus cash so I asked him what the lease would be with subtracting the $7,500. He told me “the $7,500 bonus was…

Good point. Dealing with car seats, especially infant seats, was a lot easier with a sliding door.

I’m “that guy.” If the CEO wasn’t an unhinged genius who I have no intention of supporting financially or otherwise, I’d probably have a Tesla parked in my garage now, and if not I’d have ordered a Y at this fire sale price. It’s not like the class-leading infrastructure is going away, and I’d have this fancy high…

Before anyone starts quoting self defense and “stand your ground” laws, these examples are all straight up murder. There isn’t even a debate over it. The perpetrators are going to prison, where they belong.

“But real charity doesn’t need to be filmed. It just happens.”

I live in California. These things are VERY popular here. So yeah, they don’t really lose much value. I swear there’s so many here that I have accidentally mistaken another one at the grocery store for ours.

I would be happy to take one of their cars and experience it as an owner, but there’s no way in the world I can justify spending hard-earned luxury car money on a Hyundai.

Call me a snob if you’d like but brands mean something. But a brand without a reputation and a consensus of its value and meaning are a tough sell.

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First gear:

Not really any sympathy.

EV’s in the mid-size truck segment are going to fair very well. This isn’t a segment that is expected to do much towing and operating costs are a high consideration among buyers.

Maverick version please.

It feels like they keep lowering the price to see at what point some holdouts in their target demo would bite...but the joke on them is that you’d have to pay a lot of people in that group at this point to drive a Tesla, I know I’m in that group. I still don’t get why forecasts are so rosy and their market cap is…

First of all, if your family “needs a bigger car,” there are far cheaper options out there than a $49K Ford Explorer.

“After he realized his family needed a bigger vehicle, they did something unusual: they traded in both of their vehicles for a Ford Explorer.”

Interesting comments. I appreciate your thoughts and wanted to share some observations.

“Racially insensitive.” No, that is a hell of a lot more than insensitive, that’s the whole kit and caboodle of straight up fuck-you level racism.

I agree with your wife. It has a killer nose, but everything else needs to go to finishing school. Amateurish at best.

Well, to be fair, rear saddle bags are better than front.