There are nearly 3M EVs on the road in the U.S. Are 3M drivers waiting until the battery tech improves?

It allows “strong” plug-in hybrids, capped at 20%. What’s a strong PHEV? One that goes 50 miles electric per the window sticker and when you “punch it, Chewie,” the gas engine doesn’t kick on.

The irony is how Toyota kicked GM’s ass during the previous automotive paradigm shift. BYD and Hyundai/Kia are about to do the same thing to them.

A plug-in hybrid pickup with 50 or so miles of range would be pretty sweet. The new CARB rules encourage that.

Exactly this. We can debate the BEV versus PHEV split, but at the end of the day, Toyota has been fighting the switch to plug-ins around the world.

Just don’t rile him by asking him to spell ‘where’

You should do a search for under $2K cars and see what comes up. There won’t be anything close to as functional and in similar condition to this Explorer. I don’t love it. I don’t even much like it. But REALISTICALLY, the current market is how you base the value of something. Not assuming cars are worth what they were…

You could say, “no sir, I don’t agree”. But your approach is one way too I suppose. Was just my thought, I don’t see a bunch of these listed so not too easy to compare.

Towing is a major difference between the two. For sure, though I’m defending the general idea of   SUV shape and construction with 2WD (which might have been 20-25% of some models back in the day), not the value proposition of today’s NPoND offering.

It seems a little high, particularly because I imagine a big audience for this truck would want a 4x4. But for someone south of the snow belt it’s a clean and classic looking truck. I’m actually surprised by how much it looks like a classic considering similar ones are still on the road around here (mostly forest…

GMC's existence was to provide Pontiac, Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillac dealers a line of trucks to sell. It made no sense to have completely different styling other than minor grille and badge differences. In recent decades GMC has become a more upscale choice for people not wanting the Chevy brand and later models…

The Geo/Chevy Prizm branding is even more interesting when you consider that the 84-88 Chevy Nova preceded it and was also built at the NUMMI (now tesla) plant along side the corolla.

I had a 1987 and it was probably one of the highest quality US built/US badged small cars at the time.

To be fair, that generation Dakota itself wore a pretty ugly, ill-fitting suit itself.

Anybody still remember the Mercury Capri?

Remember, this article is about rebadges that we forgot existed. Mercury Villagers were quite popular and sold very well, despite being an obvious rebadge.

Funny thing is that, if memory serves me right, the Chevy Aveo in its turn was a rebadged Deawoo Kalos . So a kinda rebadge of a rebadge, whoa dude...

The Saturn Astra, while it had similar styling cues to Opel, wasn’t a rebadged anything. It was very much an alternative to the 2008-2012 Malibu, and shared the most with that car. The Pontiac G6 was also a close relative, although the Malibu was closer. All three cars shared the same Epsilon platform and 112.3-inch…

While its true that GM’s GMT360 platformed SUVs received like five different versions

VW actually used a rebadge for their european minivan too - the Sharan was just a Ford Galaxy (and also a Seat Alhambra) one of my friends mum’s had one and I loved riding in that damn thing. It was like a spaceship compared to my mums Volvo 940

My absolute favorite rebadges are the ones where there is next to no effort made to differentiate between the models. Like, just a grille-and-tail-lights job, because changing the headlights costs too much money to federally certify.