I’m 100% on board with bringing back meaty sidewalls and “normal” shifters.

I can understand changing the shifter design if it offered some kind of tangible benefit, but as in the Honda example, it takes up just as much console/dash space as a handle, but is more confusing to use. The dial ones are even worse.

I’ve…

I’d say a resettable software glitch isn’t much of a problem relative to a battery fire...

Most traction control systems are designed to cut power to stop a wheel from spinning. This makes sense if you’re trying to get yourself moving from stopped, as it gives the tires better odds of gripping the road surface.

However, when driving up a slippery hill, you want momentum to help drive you forward even if a…

“Network Interruption” and steering....JHFC....those two words shouldn’t correlate together. Yet, here we are.

Well crazy timing as I just ordered a Mach-E GT having never driven or sat in one. It’s not for lack of trying: I’ve called every dealer in a reasonable radius for a test drive, but all dealers have are incoming customer cars, which obviously they aren’t giving out test drives in.

Specifying such a large battery is simply someone trying to kill the requirement for EVs, by making them unreasonably expensive.

...pack in a 94 kilowatt hour battery...

You can order full Broncos at MSRP with no markup pretty easily, the problem is the order backlog given the issues with the hardtops, chip shortages, etc. 

My dad ordered his Bronco in November at MSRP, but probably won’t have a build date until late next fall. 

I love AMC weirdness. They seemed to be a lot like America’s version of Citroen.

The Nash Metropolitan had covers over both the front and rear wheels, giving it a sort of boat-like look.

I also noticed that adding the $10k 300mile battery pack forces you to add the $9.5k 312A equipment package, so get the the 300mile battery pack at all, the bare minimum you’re going to spend is $74,169.

If you were like me and hoping for a modestly equipped XLT, but with that larger battery pack in the low $60k…

Plus, the Maverick really brings it when it comes to colors:

What ever happened to using your brain and observing the actual weather and road conditions in front of you?

Oh right, this is 2021 Jalopnik, how dare someone be held responsible for their own actions? 

This is a really dumb article. You’re basically saying, “Rivian and Hummer put bigger gas tanks on their trucks, so those are better.”

I actually use this tactic on my own cars, in case they ARE stolen.

The AirTags are really easy to hide in an inconspicuous place in your vehicle (behind plastic trim, under carpet, basically anywhere near where a phone can pick up the signal) and you don’t have to pay a monthly fee for tracking like you do for the 4G…

I agree about not paying ADM, but I don’t think you’ll see many discounts on EV trucks for quite a while, even if we didn’t have the chip shortages.

Automakers aren’t going to be able to scale their EVs anywhere near as quickly as their ICE vehicles as the EV supply chains are still pretty new. With demand what it is,…

Yeah, but it’s Ford, so any small town with a post office is going to have a dealer. I was able to find several in the area with no ADM after my original one tried to pull a $6k ADM on me. 

Yeah, I asked the dealer tied to my reservation, and they said they are adding a $6k ADM to all Lightning orders. Then they tried to justify themselves by saying their ADM was the lowest in the region, and made up enormous $10k+ ADMs at other dealers.

I don’t think even the sales rep knows that yet. I can say I’m not going to place an order unless I can get in writing that I will be paying MSRP. My dad did that on his Bronco reservation. 

I got a call from my local Ford dealer yesterday that the Lightning order books will open in January, and they were confirming if I would turn my reservation into an order as my Day 1 reservation was at the top on the list.

If this spurred the development of hybrid and fully electric RVs, I think it’s a good thing. I’ve always thought RVs should have PTOs that directly power a generator rather than having a totally separate ICE just for the generator.

Couple that with larger lithium battery packs and solar arrays, and you quickly…