Say what you want but the Rav4 Hybrid is pretty much the perfect family car for like 90% of Americans. Has the “Rugged looks” but is not super hardcore with compromises, 40MPG combined, spacious, Toyota resale and reliability, got all the tech and safety features you want, and is quicker than the gas only version.…

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Please excuse me for some Borscht Belt-grade humor here but while Elon might spend all his time complaining about metaphorical snakes in the form of shorts, what he might actually be hindered by are literal snakes

You know the old saying, if you want to make a lot of money, get into auto racing...wait.

How the hell did you go through that much analysis without even mentioning the one DIRECT competitor to the Miata (minus the convertible-ness): The Subaru BRZ / Toyota 86.

The Miata’s price is not a problem. Its lack of colors is the problem.

Counterpoint: Miatas are low volume and have less vehicles to spread development costs across on their unique platform. Mazda is not exactly swimming in cash. Miatas have no direct competition in the small RWD convertible department.

That was the answer today too, but it was phrased more diplomatically.

Trading in a KIA on a BMW to save money.

What a world we live in!  If anyone had suggested that 5 years ago, they would have been told they are clinically insane.

lol.

Perhaps it’s on me for expecting better critical thinking from Jalopnik, but I cannot possibly express how disappointed I am that this is the party line this blog is taking. Toyota and others are not taking Trump’s side per se, they are advocating for a single Federal standard for safety and emissions. If you fragment…

This hurt to read, but I can’t find the lie. 

Aren’t they all built here? Or was that rhetorical?

now it’s a work related tax write-off

I feel like the tape residue makes it 100% beater status.

The existing automakers have agreements with their franchisees that protect the franchisees from their supplier directly competing with them by selling cars in their states. The franchise laws reinforce that. Ford, GM, Honda, VW - they all have franchise contracts they can’t get out of - meaning having someone else…

4th gear: I am in no way defending airbag companies here, but we are getting to the point here where the oldest airbags are several decades old - wouldn’t you expect that these old airbags wouldn’t always operate properly upoN deployment at that age?

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The answer is actually displacement taxes outside North America.