I always felt that way about Suburbans/Yukon XLs/Escalades with the big engine - but they’re downright pokey compared to this.

Get out of here with all that logic and reason!

Then again, pretty much all new cars are pricey these days. 

That VW id.7 wagon looks nice. Of course, we’re not even getting the sedan, much less the wagon...

Another way of looking at that would be that the Blackwood was the initial mutant cell that’s responsible for triggering the runaway cancer...

I was thinking the same thing - he’s got a 2021 Pilot. The reason to buy something like a Honda or Toyota, as opposed to some cheaper and/or more exciting alternative, has always been long term low cost of ownership and piece of mind. Selling/trading in after only 3 years pretty much negates much of that benefit.

Makes sense, being produced by a company run by a notorious edgelord...

If I was a betting man, I’d guess that a cheap Jeep electric crossover would sell very well as long as it wasn’t dogshit.

So the Lyriq is a nicefied Blazer - I’m assuming this is a nicefied Equinox? I really wonder whether this is just a return to the bad old days of blatant badge engineering, or whether the Cadillac upcharge will be justified by better materials and better equipment.

Incelmino? 

9,119 lbs curb weight, 1,500lbs payload, $75K for poverty spec and over $100K for the “nice” one - oh, and 4.5 seconds to 60. The weird thing about this? It’s a natural evolution of current ICE-powered full size “half-ton” pickups. They’ve been getting bigger, heavier, more powerful/faster, ever more luxurious, ever…

Dude, you’re at a crossroads, and a change of scenery, road tripping, and connecting with family and friends is a great plan. Now add something that will provide a bit of flow, challenge, and fun to your life. Road tripping long distances in a “fun” car isn’t all that great - interstate are boring and don’t lend…

RVs are sold on price and features/gizmos/bells/whistles to people who think they’ll be using them a ton, but end up using them not a whole lot. So you get lots of compromised solutions that are all about looking good on the spec sheet but don’t stand up to the actual rigors of use. The result is that most RVs, after…

Most Jeep buyers rate those things really low when they test drive, because they’re all enchanted with the rugged image, and they have these ideas about how they’ll actually use the vehicle. After a few years, a lot of them find that they never actually do all the things they thought they’d do with their trucks, so…

If it’s accepted, that means it’s no longer a problem, no?

There’s an exception to that - used vanpool vans. As in, full sized vans used for employer sponsored van pool commuting. I bought one of those from Enterprise (which seems a few notches above Hertz on the ‘running a reasonably well sorted business’ category to begin with) because I could trace that very van to my own…

I saw the Hummer truck in the wild the other day, and damn, that’s atrociously big/bulky. Driving around our little town, it looked garish and huge and over the top in a way the (not exactly small) Lightning simply doesn’t. Mind you, pickups in general have gotten too big, but man, that’s a different level right…

I’ve talked to a few R1T and R1S owners. They all love their trucks for how they drive, how they feel, what they can do, and so forth. And they were all a little bit worried about Rivian’s viability (although they all seem to think that because Amazon’s an investor, ultimately, they’ll be fine - I’m not sure about…

There’s also the bit where Tesla, like most tech companies, has a bunch of people on H1-B visas - for those folks, the visa is tied to that particular job with that particular employer. Which is a bigger issue, as there’s a fair bit of exploitation stemming from that system. But would explain why a bunch of people on…

I believe that one gets a pass because Volvo (owned by Geely) also manufactures some cars in the US and exports from here.