I’d like to humbly suggest that you replace the author as a regular writer for Jalopnik, which has become dumber, less objective, more reactionary, and less fact-based in the last few years. I would not try to make excuses for Nazis, but to call this car a Nazi-car is reductionist and lazy. Thanks for writing with…

More poorly done clickbait headlines. Prices will come down after dealers realize they can’t sell cars at the higher markups.  They also have used inventory that was expensive   

The sheer, naked, desperate, groping, unprofessional, un-journalistic dedication to ripping apart anything to do with Telsa because their CEO isn’t a nice man is stupid and has dampened my enthusiasm for this website greatly. The FIRST question that needs answered is, REALLY why do we need the traditional car…

It’s over twice the price of the base model civic.  It’s 5000 dollars more than a similar Tesla that’s cheaper to run and will leave it for dead in every scenario that’s not on a track or an extremely twisty road.  I’m just extremely underwhelmed at this price with an economy car with big tires and an engine that’s…

No but it means this is a platform that was designed to be cheap and cheerful and now it’s got a bigger engine with a ton of boost and bigger tires but no awd, no fancy transmission, very little aluminium in the construction, no awd, same infotainment, same suspension setup but loads of squishy dash parts?  Millions…

This isn’t a low volume sports car. It’s a Civic with a big turbo and fender flares.  The very concept of this sort of a car is supposed to be great performance at a discount.

Trying to be sane about things - I think the pandemic shortages have made small batch cars into things that manufactures expect to be fought over.  That led to lots of price gauging - and increased MSRPs so that the company gets more of that premium.  Well interest rates are like 5% higher than then, everything is…

In the last 10 years I’ve had a G8 GT, an S60 R Design, a V60 R Design, an XC60 R Design, a Honda Pilot (2nd kids are tough, man), a Stinger GT, a Dodge Truck and now I have a Bolt because it costs me viturally no money.  As my weekend car I had a 997.2 S then a 991.1 CS4, then a Corvette Grand Sport (C7) and now a…

Yeah, I mean I get it also that Porsche works VERY hard to add cost for the vain-rich but the basics of the car are impeccable. I’ve been lucky enough to have a couple 991s that I kept for a few years before selling to avoid non-warranty repairs. There are cars that are faster in certain scenarios but scarcely cars…

I think all of us who are mourning the loss of “Lotus” as a lightweight, tiny sports car company are a bit missing the narrative here. IF any car manufacture is going to be lightweight there is only one way to do that and that’s to completely reinvent batteries. Good luck with that on Lotus’ budget. Secondly, there is…

Subarus: the only numbers bigger than the ground clearance is the 0-60 time and the oil consumption.

Drive a Porsche.

how many recalls were software vs hardware?

Um... Tesla is doing it just fine... (sorry forgot to bash Tesla and say Elon is a weenie... which is true but still... his network works)

COTD

I got mine because it was as quick as a Mustang GT and I could put 2 carseats in it. :-). But it didn’t have enough grip.

I had a base GT AWD on a lease steal for a couple years. It was JUST big enough to use with my two kids and be fun to drive. There were a couple things about the car that made no damn sense and undercut an amazing car. 4000 lbs, awd, 225 width tires... WHY???? Also, in a car that puts a premium on layout over…

Because they are selling for over sticker. We had a 1.5 year old Telluride SX Nightfall that in a year and a half didn’t lose a dime to depreciation. So I cashed out and bought a Sportage Hybrid SX for the wife and put the $17,000 on my mortgage instead.  I have a M3P and a Bolt.  The Tesla is a fun summer and road…

This needs to happen.  Why do we willingly let a country who is emphatically NOT our friend, have so much data about our young people.  Even planning a terrorist attack is made simple when you can tell when and where people are gathering 24/7 over years.  This is wretched enough when it’s our own companies spying like…

It costs me 9 cents for a kilowatt hour where I live.  My Bolt gets 3 miles per kilowatt hour in winter and 4 in the summer.  To drive a hundred miles in the summer costs $2.25.  Even if you assume maybe 85% efficiency of the power going into the battery actually being stored... It’s still well under $3. In Pittsburgh…