Well Jensen had it first, so...

I always thought the Ssangyong Musso (means “rhino” in Korean) was a cool name for a pretty capable and tough Mercedes-powered SUV:

The Terras are only about $160/ea. Not bad. 

I would guess it’s probably a few thousand, if not ten thousand (or more)cheaper.

Sparco? OZ?

We paid a total of $58 for two nights, with the required Michigan state “recreation passport” which any resident should just fork over the $11 annual fee for.

I present my Subaru Outback 3.0R. It’s not particularly fast, it’s (really) not cool, but...

Truck chassis aside, I suppose the AWD PT Cruiser with a lift kit and some AT tires wouldn’t be horrible offroad. I never realized they had basically zero overhangs until this thing threw that into sharp relief.

I find one of the most satisfying aspects of a project car is finding the little hidden gems of genius the original engineers put into the car. In the midst of cursing Mazda for burying my Miata’s factory amp behind every possible console control, I found the extremely handy passthrough that runs underneath the…

The pretty decent Grand Tour game, for one. For a game based off an automotive entertainment TV show, it’s pretty good. 

Eh, that’s not necessarily true. On the the gen 1 EVs with only about 80 miles of range, you can probably get by with 110V only (I know plenty of people at my work that are fine with occasionally charging at work, and topping off with 110V at home), but for newer EVs with 150+ miles of range, fully charging a car on…

And with a DC fast charger, it’s pretty much exactly the same in an EV. Sure, you could wait the 30-40 minutes for an 80% charge, but if you just need to get home, the ~30 miles of range you’d get from a 10min fast charge would be plenty. 

Even if by some miracle it did come to the US, you can be sure we’d only get the 260hp version and MAYBE the plug-in hybrid. They haven’t offered the hot version of the 3-series wagon in the US for ages.

Except you can’t fill up with gas at home (unless you keep a large tank for yard equipment), but you can easily charge at home. 

I have an EV, and know over 30 people at work that commute in them as well, ranging from long range Teslas to the tiny Chevy Spark EV. None of them have range anxiety after about a month or so of ownership. You fall into a routine and it becomes totally normal. I rarely check the range in my Leaf anymore. I know it…

My biggest complaint is that the retraction mechanism on the chargers is strong and abrupt enough to pull my shoulder out of its socket. Is someone going to solve that problem?

Depends where you live. We have chargers everywhere in my area. 

It’s really not that hard. Do you forget to fill up with gas?

I didn’t see anywhere in this article that qualified what “rich people” actually means.

I can’t wait for mainstream EV pickups regardless of who makes them. Tesla, Rivian, Ford, whoever; doesn’t matter to me. They make so much sense for fleet vehicles like landscapers and contractors.