I’ve owned 3 CRXes and still own one, and used to run a regional CRX club. I have CRX shirts, mugs, toy cars, and a crawlspace full of a disassembled one in case I need parts for the one I still have.

This makes me feel better about my CRX. I've got an 84 with only 40k miles. It's road ready but I can't sit in a car anymore due to a bad back.

I recently bought gasoline in California and have a strong hunch that if something capable of such high mpg were anywhere near being smoggable and roadworthy, they’d have kept it.

While I agree that making cars at scale is hard, I’d argue Rivian handled this pretty well.

I am one who managed to escape lol.

It actually came with a paper shredder. Now we know why. 

I have to disagree with you on this one. The Nautica package was a significant upgrade over the next level down package. The interior was handsome and the seats were very comfortable. The exterior was not so great though. That yellow line looks like urine and white wheels are dumb, especially on a FWD vehicle that…

The 1988 Trump edition Cadillac Brougham limo. Released at a time that nobody was buying limos, it was basically a grift. Trump didn’t order the large batch he was supposed to and instead just bought enough for personal use.

On the road with recent service done - maybe a different story. But as it sits it’s a ND for me and I don’t need to worry about smog. What I do need to worry about is care and maintenance on a nearly 40 year old car that was handed down to a high schooler. As a former poor high school student turned poor college…

Oh, come on! It’s nearly forty years old and not old enough to be an antique, or desirable enough to be THIS MUCH.

No A/C, rough around the edges, not registered in eight years, not smogged.

I’ve been saying it for 11 years (I leased a Volt in ‘11): people will find EVs desirable for exactly the reason you mention - it’s the ultimate in smooth, silent operation.

I don’t think Ford ever planned to actually sell volume at the $40k mark. They did it to match Tesla’s cybertruck price, and now that they have done it for a while, will increase the price to actually make it profitable. It’s all about perception. 

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Not gonna lie, a maverick ev would make me kinda hard.

There are plenty of “truck things” that don’t include frequent long-distance towing. Plenty of work trucks that don’t tow, or tow only within a 25 mile radius, for instance.

$39K 2019 Cybertruck is $45K today after inflation, and then you add in the $7500 tax credit that Tesla deceptively auto-adds to their MSRP, and now I’ll personally hold Elon to a $52K base cybertruck!

The Lightning Pro was originally priced thousands less than a comparable gas F-150 (even before tax credits).

“Would McDonald agree to allow their outlets to sells souvlakis, or chinese meals, etc.”

I agree. However, there is also an issue of how the paperwork is written.