Plug-in hybrid. That’s literally all I give 0.5 fucks about, or can even hope for, from Toyota anymore.

Power sliding rear window like the Tundra. No clue why they haven’t grafted this on to the Tacoma yet. 

Who said that this was just for a car? GM clearly is getting in on the electric truck game, so that 600 miles of range may be 300 (yes I’m just guessing here) for cold weather towing. Also, who says that the 600 mile range battery packs couldn’t be sold to eventual electric semi-truck manufacturers, where range is a…

“Which makes me wonder who 600 miles of range is really for.”

I feel like a 2021 $8,500 car is a 2019 $5,000 car... and I’m not sure I’d pay $5,000 for the headaches that come with an AMG on the wrong side of 150,000 miles. Reluctant ND.

They might have a cult following, but they aren’t exactly a limited production rare item. There are over 1000 AWD models for sale right now on cars.com for example.

Buy a roof box for your xB. Done. Backup answer - any car with a roof box. Friends have camped with their two kids in their Prius with a roof box for 12 years.

I think the M8 is very good looking, though I will admit, I don’t mind the look of the new M4 a bit now...I won’t say I like it, but its one of those things where you’re just used to it now, that green it comes in is nice though.

I get where you’re coming from, but there are a ton of good looking new cars currently in like their third or fourth or seventh or 10th years of production that are quite good looking.

The lack of stick wasn’t the issue (come on, a nearing retirement boomer or retired silents wanted a stick? Nope). The lack of a V8 hurt - no obnoxious wingadinga here. Otherwise a Sebring could give you the V6 and open air and a trunk. It was never mean to be a sportscar. It was a slow-cruiser without any sound to…

“people don’t want to live in big cities.”

Say that again, but slower...

yeah. it absorbs the new traffic. that would otherwise make traffic worse.

Induced demand is just latent demand realized.

Yes. The real problem is that they widen lanes for the amount of traffic there is NOW, not the amount of traffic there will be TOMORROW. Even today, they widened a 2 lane road to 4 from interstate to a new development. That development is planned to have 40,000 houses by 2035 (about 5,000 now, yes the town has gone…

Orrrrr people don’t want to live in big cities.  The Jalop status is to have multiple cars, which doesn’t work well in a city.

Or work from home or work in a suburb

you live in your high density city. i’ll live in my sprawling suburb. can’t we all just get along?

Hang on. I’m a total fucking idiot, so take this with a grain of salt: why then, when a lane closes, dies the traffic get way worse?

Because here at “Drive Free or Die” Jalopnik, the only acceptable solution to America’s transportation problems is fewer cars on the roads and more people living in cities without cars.

On the contrary. Stuffing all the cars you see on your commute every day onto a highway with two fewer lanes sticks them into traffic jams much longer. Which absolutely diminishes everyone’s quality of life.