Gotta disagree on the styling. Toyota has historically gone in waves of “trying to look American” in their styling. The most obvious start of this was the Celica that looked like a Mustang, but more recently they had the eagle wings-looking grille on the Camry in the late 2000s and the Tonka-truck styling of their…

If they want to make this an EV, fine, but I get the complaining. I do wish if they’re going all-in on EVs that they would at least make one supercar that’s a swan-song to their flat-6. Make something like a new 911 GT1, mid-engined and crazy light to show the pinnacle of what the engine can do.

If I was in the market for a new car I’d offer you my 3-pedal 2014 BMW 335xi. 135k miles but in great shape and hasn’t ever let me down. If you are good with RWD those are much easier to find and given the market on mine is about $9k trade value you could easily find a 2015 with maybe 60k miles for $20k or less.

They basically tested it where you’d get the absolute minimum penalty too. Sandbags probably didn’t go above the bed so there’s minimum aerodynamics change. Compare that to moving furniture or other large items that stick up and I bet it would be an even larger range penalty.

Except that if you’re driving in a way that requires precision fast shifts that a cup would get in the way of perfect execution, you probably won’t have a cup there. Normal daily driving I’ve never had an issue with a cupholder there, just reach around a bit.

Honestly they check so little from what it looks like in the article, why do they need an inspector that’s going to try to fleece you for unneeded repairs look at it? I’m no mechanic but I know how to measure tire tread and see if there’s brake pad life left.

Just wait until they hear that people put aftermarket wheels on their cars. Oh the horror! Just make them sign a waiver that they aren’t responsible for any damage using top speed mode with non-approved wheels and you’ll be fine. I mean how many are actually going to do that anyway?

It’s the people who have absolutely no attention span that never use cruise control because they claim they’ll fall asleep or get distracted or whatever.

I had hope that our local JLR dealer’s awful customer service was because they didn’t have another to compete with in the state. Then another one popped up on the other side of town, and boy was I wrong. Now we have two JLR dealers with awful customer service.

I’ll never say never (except with Tesla), but here’s my very-likely-never brands:

I did the Ring of Kerry outside of peak tourist season which was awesome even though it was foggy/rainy for a lot of the drive. I want to go back and spend the entire trip on the west coast driving most or all of the way up.

Wild Atlantic Way.

15 minutes if there’s a free spot. If there’s a line at the gas pump, it’s 3-5 minutes per person in front of you. If there’s a line at the charger, and you’re lucky it’s all Ironiq 5s, that’s 15 minutes per person in front of you. It’s probably not Ironiqs though, more likely Bolts that take what, 40 minutes to get…

1. Range, but also flexibility. We bought my wife’s car with 38k miles in January 2022, it’s almost to 70k already, my daily I’ve driven about 12k in the last year and the convertible another 5-ish. When your parents and their cabin are both 5 hours away, and a quick down and back 200 mile round trip to the in-laws is…

The economy didn’t force them to buy a new car.

I hate these types of articles, they never show all the information and are deceptively pessimistic.

Get the wagon that’s probably the most readily available with a manual. VW Sportwagen. The 5-cyl or 1.8t are both plenty of power without being too fast, and they’re decently fun but can carry a decent amount of crap too.

Tech has nothing to do with this conversation. If you need 7 seats you need 7 seats. The cheapest 7-seater EV that you can realistically use those 7 seats daily like a minivan is the Model X which starts at $98k. A midrange Tahoe is ~$70k. That savings would pay for over 100k miles of gas.

Typical daytime yes, but commutes are most often morning and evening, and particularly in the morning it’s closer to the low temp for the day which does regularly get down to below -10.

And most people won’t ever buy a minivan, but even the starting price of a Tahoe is far enough below the X that gas savings won’t make up the difference.