He’s calling for regulation, not nationalization. Big difference.

It's not a family car. Back in the day, they called it a "2+2!"

Plenty of owners like that, all around the world. 

I don’t understand the reliability comments on these. We’ve got 41,000 completely trouble-free miles on ours and I have a co-worker who has done 210,000 in his 2012 without issue!

Why would you *not* insist on a manual transmission in a Miata?

You are. Anyone who can afford an Evora isn't in the market for a Fiat. Troll.

See here is your problem. Your using logic. This is an Italian car, you don’t buy it because it makes sense. You specifically buy it because it does not make sense. And then you grin from ear to ear every time you turn the key and scoot down the road wth purpose to be a menice to society.

This annoyed me greatly in 2015.  But at least Fiat had the mercy to bless the US models with the interior updates.  The gauge cluster and infotainment got the much needed refresh just like the Eurasian cars.

Ha! My wife has a black Turbo and hated the “mouse eyes” (headlights) so I took it to a vinyl shop and had them put a black “brow” across the top of the headlights like you did. There is a really cool aftermarket hood that did the same thing, but the vinyl was $20 versus a few hundred for an aftermarket hood and paint.

A Fiat should not be kept on a ridiculously long oil change interval. 5-7k is pretty normal and easily done. Brake pads replaced as needed. Spark plugs at 34k iirc. Cabin filter every couple of years. Maintenance on a Fiat 500 is nothing special, not even on Abarths. You do not need to spend half of every weekend in…

It's not our fault that "long reputation" is leftover from the 70s when ALL cars were unreliable piles of garbage compared to modern cars. Maintain a modern Fiat properly and they will be just fine. Hell, mod a modern Fiat properly and it will still be just fine. My daily driver Abarth has been brought up to 202whp…

I must be missing something, but these sound like Automotive PETA equivalents, not badasses.

Back when BMW and MB sold on substance, this kind of thing would be unthinkable. Now it’s par for the course--bougie badges beget bougie bullshit. A light-up grille is much easier to develop than proper suspension damping.

Replacing all petrol cars with ev is like replacing a diesel semi with a petrol one. Can it be done? It COULD. Does it make sense? Not even a little.

Most people live in cities and drive maybe 100-200 miles a week. An ev makes sense. Especially if you have a place to charge it AND live in a city that has a high…

1- the low end of that estimate includes a BEV charged by renewables. And ICEVs have much more room to improve on efficiency than BEVs.

5 minute fill-ups are not misleading at all. I said fill up the car and nothing else. Nothing about food, which I could sit in the restaurant or take it to go and is a variable I left out. It doesn’t change charge time and range. This is why I think something like a Hydrogen electric car is more viable the charging up…

There are 3 problems with EVs replacing cars in the future:

I have no problems with the concept of electric cars, but they tend to have one or more issues.

Of course EVs are the future. I’m perfectly fine with the large majority driving them, and I’d imagine that my wife’s next car will be an EV. However, I have little interest in them from an enthusiast driving standpoint, so I hope that Jalopnik remains committed to talking about “old” ICE cars once full EV adoption…

Don’t listen to the naysayers. It’s only the cityslickers on the coasts who remain averse to taking road trips. The person who buys a new car today will still have that same car in 11 years.