Does the Subaru Brat count as an off-road vehicle

He just didn’t have the right Brat.

Oh, hey, I’m not greyed after that mild commentor revolt I started yesterday. That’s something I guess.

Something something German something 

Using your Dyson hair dryer to open your Tesla’s door = peak influencer.

“NOooo the air conditioning is on! Jesus,  Ernesto!”

I think a lot of people get in to it after buying a new car, thinking they’ll make up the car payment + some profit, and then sell it in a couple years. Obviously being in good condition is key to this strategy.

The said they wanted the full Wrangler experience...

Never thought I’d see the day when I’d vote NP on anything with 300k, but here we are.

Truck Nutz is so obvious I’m surprised it wasn’t in the prompt.

These are much better than a Citation.

If you actually read all the ‘negative’ articles about Tesla on Jalopnik, you’ll note that almost all of them are caveated with positive statements about the vehicles engineering, capabilities and the impact of Tesla on the broader automotive market. But they don’t spend 12 paragraphs repeating that because there’s…

As a regular Mitsubishi apologist in these parts I gotta say, WOW, Mitsubishi went all in and smashed face first into the ugly grill wars with this concept. The rest of the vehicle looks fairly nice and exactly what buyers want right now, but that Ralliart is a face that even BMW is laughing at. They some how found a…

Vista Cruiser for me!

EVs and, to a lesser extent, hybrids are newer vehicles. They have not reached shitbox status yet. We won’t have a clear picture of their fire risk until then.

A quick perusal of the linked story indicates that the fire numbers were not adjusted for vehicle age.

Oh, we do have the bridges inspected. They’re usually flagged as dangerous and then just nothing happens.

The answer is always…

Don’t use the average new car price, because high-end vehicle sales distort the numbers.

The median new car sale price for 2021 is about $38,000. That is to say, 50% of new vehicle sold in 2021 cost LESS than that amount