ALL RISE FOR THE HONORABLE JUDGE JAILBIRD!!!! (Bird... Bird... Bird...)

You should drive a Leaf sometime. They’re a lot quicker than you think. 

BS. Insurance companies aren’t stupid, and know full well what 2+2 sports coupes are. You’re aren’t fooling them with a tiny backseat.

Yes, the Elise is ALMOST the perfect answer, but I know one of the biggest complaints against the Elise is poor AC. You might be able to get around that a bit by driving with the roof off, but that doesn’t help with Florida humidity...

No, but Rivian and Bollinger at least had real driveable prototypes. Bollinger has kept posting various updates and videos of them thrashing the prototype offroad, and how far along their production version design is.

Of course, and Jalopnik staff are well aware of this as well, so they should have added a note about that.

350 mile range and you think it will be $40-$50k?

Can’t tell if sarcasm or not, but Volvo isn’t exactly the paragon of reliability these days... 

I’ve seen it happen plenty of times in my area. It’s rude and annoying, but has never caused me to run out of charge someplace, so I move on. 

I drive a Nissan Leaf, and I’ve seen this happen a LOT at public EV charging areas, since most of them are in prime parking locations right by a front entrance or something. All of them have signs saying “EV charging only” or something like that, but plenty of gas cars park there. It’s annoying, but it’s never caused…

Notice the lack of a hood scoop, however. If this thing has a turbocharged boxer engine under that hood, I’d be very surprised.

I completely agree. The CVT tuning in the first gen XV made the already-gutless 140hp engine feel downright dangerously slow. I could hardly merge onto freeways safely.

Speak for yourself. I’m an engineer, and I prefer plastic whenever possible. Better chemical resistance than aluminum or stainless steel, great thermal properties when you select the appropriate plastic for your use case, easier to machine and weld (lower fab costs), etc.

Name one manufacturer that uses all-aluminum coolant reservoirs these days...

Should have gotten some Primitive Racing skidplates then. ;)

It’s not a minivan. A minivan is even more practical. Like I said, the Ridgeline is really good for 90% of what Americans ACTUALLY use a truck for (i.e. getting groceries and maybe getting a bag of potting soil every now and then), so Honda nailed the market segment on that front.

To be fair, nobody is forcing you to lift the Jeep.

Tom mentioned it quickly, but should have highlighted Turo more.

There are some awesome twisty coastal roads outside of Nagasaki like this. Lots of elevation changes and curves, and great views of the bays and ocean the whole way.

No.