- people will continue to complain about range anxiety even though they are driving less than they ever have and their current car has less range than several of the EVs on sale today. Meanwhile, the grownups in the EU will continue to drive the global demand for EVs.

I’m not sure I get the hate about the Charger. Yeah, it’s old, but what about it being old makes it worse than the newer competition exactly?

Lol, that got me.

I mean, I get your snark, but at the same time, how often do you see new cop cars vs new school buses, new city buses, new garbage trucks, new snow plows, new fire trucks? Seriously, as soon as the new Explorers and Tahoes were out, it took like a month or two to already see the local & state police with them. Why do…

I mean, yeah, it’s pretty old. But it’s still a great car overall. It rides well, has tons of configurations/options, pretty modern features, and still even has fairly competitive safety ratings. What is a competitor that is better?

Eh, the Sienna does have a the HUGE compromise of not being able to remove the middle row. For a lot of people, that might not matter, but I think it is probably a big deal for most people and they won’t realize it until they already own it. My vote is Pacifica, my only complaint with the hybrid is you gotta give up…

Dang it, I shoulda googled it before going off the top of my head.

Yeah, I get that it could be an issue, but I highly highly doubt heavy passenger vehicle EVs are gonna be the straw that broke the camels back. It’s gonna be from big rigs. A really really heavy EV is like 8k lbs. A standard big rig tries to get as close to their standard max of 80k lbs as possible. Wear on roads is…

Assuming it and the suburban go for under $100k, I’d much rather have this over the new $65k yuppie-mobile Sprinters that get a $30k instagram van life make over.

Totally a big part of it. 

To be honest, even $5k worth of wheels, tires, and lift kit would be generous, at least at dealers when I was living in Houston. Every dealer in Houston seemed to offer the same 3 options of ugly ass XD wheels that retail for like $275/wheel, on some cheap ass 35"+ tire like Atturo Trail Blades (some rock hard Nittos…

Yeah, my example was poor. But why typically happens isn’t someone swapping from a truck to a more fuel efficient truck; but instead sticking around in the same fuel economy bracket. So instead of 23mpg sedans, people drive 23mpg SUVs. You don’t get a net environmental benefit, people just consume more in the sense…

It can also mean going up from a full size sedan to a full size truck though. “Both get 23mpg on the highway” and like you said, you’ll drive the same as you always have. So where is the environmental benefit here?

Increase the cost of the good you want to decrease the use of. But, that tends to be regressive, so you can even implement a cap & trade policy with a refund. The refund is equally split between everyone, so an average user gets a refund at the end of the year in equal value to the increase in out of pocket cost they…

Also, usually when efficiency goes up, so does usage. If someone typically goes from driving a 15mpg vehicle to a 30mpg vehicle, you can almost guarantee they will drive a lot more. Sure, it’s probably not a 1:1 ratio, but there are way more effective ways to reduce climate effects than solely targeting effecencies.

This looks just like a 3rd gen gussied up which, as you already know, is already essentially a 2nd gen gussied up. I swear that is the same cab that nonTacoma people love to complain about since 2004, just ever so slightly modified at the C pillar. And while I still do like my 3rd gen a lot (besides the shit…

I just want to see one of these parked next to a car I’ve seen in person. These are proportioned like a hatch, but I’ve been told are sized like a CUV or even SUV. So what is it?

I remember my dad complaining as a kid that the blades were kind of a pain to find. Not something the local AdvanceAuto had in stock all the time. But yeah, it was awesome.

It’s a shame the car’s nostrils are so reviled, because from any other angle it looks pretty damn good.

Not only that, but you should probably normalize based on Tesla’s demographic. I’m assuming Tesla owners are typically more middle aged, wealthier, and better educated than average; how does that correlate compared to other middle aged, wealthier, and well educated drivers? Let alone, Tesla’s are substantially newer…