That warranty is so laughably suspicious I can’t believe they bothered to mention it.

Man alive, that was bugging me. Thanks for pointing that out.

Fox body sprung to my mind too! But not the gimp suit Mad Max kind, more the original Mad Max kind—where you’re not sure if that’s rust or dust or both, half the lights don’t work, and there are lots of dents with suspicious dark stains.

Yes. Turning the Tempo into an abomination will make no car enthusiast on the planet angry. It’s better than the frightening alternative—can you imagine the sick, twisted soul of someone who keeps a Ford Tempo in mint condition, bone stock?

In defense of the Toyota Echo, it was at least distinctive, and surprisingly fast owing to its no-compromises lightness.

“I liked the Tempo/Topaz duet as a kid.”

That also stuck out at me, and I was born in ‘94. The hell was up with lease prices back then? My mom just leased a $35,000 Volt for $220 a month.

And now I want to find an AWD Tempo with a stick shift and run horrific experiments on it. I bet you could turn one into a wood-fired dune buggy with enough determination and a junkyard water heater.

It… it looks so dead. I’ve seldom seen a car that looked so inanimate. Usually the human brain is up to the task of anthropomorphizing almost anything, but this…

God help me, I actually like the Tempo somehow. I see potential there, just waiting to be carved out. The Tempo is a car just begging to be vivisected and turned into something… glorious. There is no one who would mourn for a Tempo, or miss it when it was gone. I’d rather see it turned inside out, with all its moving…

We ought to thank our lucky stars it’s only a CRV. Can you imagine the carnage if she owned a Mustang?

Sampling bias, perhaps? There are a LOT of CR-Vs, and thus it is more likely for a coincidental confluence of bad drivers in CR-Vs for you to notice. The human brain loves making patterns and connections.

I imagine Tesla has covered their ass in this regard by issuing some sort of Terms and Conditions thing that everyone just agrees to without reading.

Ever hear of the Renault Zoë? It’s a teeny subcompact with a 40kWh battery pack. That’s the same as a base model Tesla Model S from just a few years ago.

The Bolt has a 60 kWh battery pack. No capacitors that I’ve ever heard of.

It’s still galling that they have the temerity to demand taxpayers and legislators prop up their parasitic business model. Do we live in a mixed economy or not? It isn’t the purpose of our government to prop up obsolescent occupations for the sake of “protecting jobs.” We wouldn’t behave advanced this far if we did…

Because I refuse to believe these people are actually thick enough to think their persecution of Tesla has any morally or legally valid basis, I will take their statements and claims of malfeasance with a heaping mountain of salt. Their self-interest is naked to anyone with half a brain.

There are other tricycle type vehicles for sale today. They haven’t really caught on.

That’s assuming Elio can deliver on its promises, which is very much still in question. I know I’d take a $7,500 used car over this any day of the week and twice on Sundays. It would be safer, more useful, and if you buy an electric car or hybrid, probably won’t cost much more to operate. Maybe less.

The problem with the idea that mass production will fix all the Elio’s problems is that in order for it to do so, you not only need a larger amount of starting capital, you also need a larger amount of people to buy the things. Which I simply don’t see happening. People want crossovers, not weird little alien…