It’s not about city driving but simply that in some European countries, PHEV that have less than 50km of WLTP range can’t get any subsidy, not to mention that it starts to be a decent range if you can charge at home or at work.

Cost is relative... I’ve put close to $7000 in gas over the last two years in our Subaru Ascent. At at current pace, I’ll spend over $20k in fuel over the life of the vehicle. The initial purchase price might be higher on an EV, but the fuel savings will be substantial, along with the long term reliability. There are…

Stellantis and Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance should merge. Nissan has electric capabilities for small and mid-size cars

that said, the EU branch is doing quite well with EV’s, considering all the Peugeots, Citroëns, and Opels being sold as hybrids or full-on BEV’s.
In the European case, Stellantis is in the mid-group: Not the best, like Tesla, but certainly doing pretty good

Kind of depends on the market though.

Stellantis’ most prestigious marque would have to be Ferrari, and up until recently it swore it’d never go fully electric.

“Stellantis’ most prestigious marque would have to be Ferrari, and up until recently it swore it’d never go fully electric”

It’s a 208 or 2008 and not a 508.

France hasn’t been invaded on over 80 years so hurray for that. And it has universal healthcare and mandatory 5 weeks vacation so that too. I’m sure it does other things like inspect the many clean energy plants, manage public transport, catch and punish lawbreakerbasically all the normal things a regular government…

As food is my major reason for travel, I’ve been to about 25-30 Michelin starred restaurants for work or pleasure.

Two Renault 5's and one Renault 8 is a Renault 4? I’m not sure I follow your math.

Also, note that in France, the Renault 4 is mostly known as the “4L” as it was the most common version of the car. L means “Limousine”, a more luxurious trim adding windows between the back doors and the hatch; and some chromed parts.

Gilles Vidal is gonna kill it with Renault like he did with Peugeot, which is sad to me cause I’m more of a Peugeot guy, but that is good for that car design world.

Take the same Alfa and place it in North America where there are few if any Alfa specialists and that Alfa which is not unreliable by Alfa standards is a reliability nightmare. The expertise of service techs is such a huge factor in the reliability of 25 year old vehicles.

It reminds me another car of the same era that has better engines, looks way better and is cheaper (in Europe)...

David believes Germany has a less robust car culture than the US. He’s provided no evidence that gas prices are the cause of that difference.

It would necessarily make car ownership so expensive that a whole swath of people who currently express their enthusiasm via car ownership would be priced out of their outlet.

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Funny thing about the Proace. It's nothing to do with Toyota apart from the name. It is instead a PSA model with a touch of badge engineering.

I have always been a massive fan of Sebastien Loeb for his successes in Rally and blistering pace at the Dakar (maybe too fast sometimes...) but Sebastien Ogier might be even better than him. He might “only” have won 7 titles (hopefully 8 soon) vs 9 for Loeb but Loeb was only with Citroen. Ogier won with so many…