Well a Lucid is the only one that’s rated over 500 miles range, that’s why it’s part of the article. But my response was a legitimate reason why a lot of people don’t have EVs.

Come to the midwest, every other home around me has either snowmobiles, side by sides, a boat, camper trailer, or multiple. And they’re going somewhere every free weekend with one of them. And I’m not even in the middle of nowhere, it’s a suburb of the metro area.

Not a truck, small SUV but it does get about 500 miles highway range on a tank, and ~330-375 with a small trailer regardless of the temp.

I’m not a denialist but I don’t like EVs and don’t plan to have one for at least another 20+ years. This is most definitely not a bad thing, I would just say it’s not all that groundbreaking. It’s got a big battery with a low CoD, and he put it on cruise with no traffic and no other big battery-using electronics, so…

I’ve said for a long time that these are decent looking cars and I miss the days of the cheap sporty coupe. Now everything has to be either truly sporty or practical, but there used to be a time that if you were a single 20-something this was a legit option to have a car that had some personality. They didn’t have to…

IDK about this one, yeah it’s a Biturbo but weren’t the later ones much more reliable? I know it’s still an old Maserati but original Biturbo to normal old Italian reliability is still an improvement. The convertibles are also pretty rare, even more rare with a manual. With how many of these are scrapped, high…

Other than that last one which is just a knockoff of Maybach, they’re trying everything and going weird because they don’t have a heritage to fall back on. Whether that’s a good thing or not is up to you, but I personally like the modernized versions of classic designs. BMW’s got the M-Sport 5-spokes, AMG Monoblocks,…

Porsche 944/928

So noise aside, the batteries are $350 each!? Having gas around isn’t a concern when you have a gas lawnmower and snowblower, there’s always enough to fill a tiny tank in a minibike. And a gas minibike costs like $500, so you could have two of them for less than the battery-less option with enough savings to buy enough…

I would recommend looking at American cars, since Japanese and Korean average heights are lower they don’t necessarily have the same requirements for their markets.

Whether an HOA is a good or bad thing is completely dependent on the residents and board. I live in an HOA and it’s been great, we only have like 2 old couples in the neighborhood and they’re super chill (usually it’s the old retirees that have nothing better to do that cause the issues), and every other house is…

For the normal person that could afford the purchase price of a new entry level sports car like a Miata, there’s still a few hurdles to overcome. First, if you have a family it can’t replace your daily driver, so it’s $30k in addition to whatever you already have, not instead of. And you gotta have the space for…

I don’t see where it said she tried to make payments, just that she refused to sign the new document. Which not signing the new document is her right but it sounds like they tried to repo the car before she even had a chance to make her first payment.

Fake wood would be decent in some applications, but I’m also a fan of the aluminum weave trim:

I know Steve Lehto has talked about a case he won on an as-is purchase that the seller put gear oil into the crankcase to hide the sound of a failing engine. Sure that’s Michigan but I wonder if there’s any legal recourse to be had for concealment here. It would mean a lawsuit but there might be something there…

“In addition to being a bit tore up, the water got into damn near everything, and it almost certainly will never operate correctly again.”

After the whole Whistlin Diesel thing, I was thinking more like the Kirki.

That’s pretty much the standard cost of a tune on a normal car these days, an APR flash on my wife’s Macan is like $600. Yeah it’s cool it would still have warranty coverage with the tune but other than that it’s not really special in terms of tunes.

Ha, agree that microphones can be deceptive. My wife has an Apple Watch and with an infant and a 2 year old she regularly gets “dangerously loud environment” warnings when they get riled up.

Just make sure you have a dealer close by that has decent volume. They’ve been closing a few around the country lately. I just got mine in April before the recall/stop sale of new ones and absolutely love it, luckily there are two dealers in my area and one had been Saab until the end so I’m banking on them to be…