honestly, I kind of wonder how the Alpina is even a thing still. they have a worse reputation for cost to repair and often less reliability than even an E63.

would it conflict if it were orange with a confederate flag on the roof?

The Imperial was the best looking of the three. the caddy looked like a dog dragging a turd, the Lincoln looked like any other car to me.

to be fair the Toyota Rav4 Hybrid also has a CVT, but at least they wisely nixed them in the regular Rav4 to avoid the same really bad Nissan reputation. Ford also has a problem with their autos as it has not recovered from the Focus DCT Auto it put upon the world erroneously. they do make them better now I here, but…

the Hybrid oversight in lieu of the really good RAV4 Prime and the $7500 Electric vehicle tax credit that brings a very palatable high trim level rav 4 to base XLE prices, it is hard to fathom how they expect to compete with Toyota, much less Honda, Ford and even little Mitsubishi who do offer the hybrids still. Were…

GM used to do this with a lot of their cars in ne place. it was fun getting to drive literally all sorts and makes of cars. in many cases the GM cars did not win out in the seat of the pants comparison and the GTO test drive is fully the reason I have never lusted after one since.

ooh, neat trick, thanks

It definitely started with Chris Bangle, but they could have fixed it rather than made it worse. 

I was thinking Mater managed to bag that BMW and this is the illegitimate love child taking over the kingdom.

meh, good idea for an article, less so since it is not. please stop trying the slide show thing.

Not sure how Rivian is pulling it off, they don’t over hype their product nor use humans a beta guinea pigs, and they seem to be wanting to make sure things are right before jumping the gun and then ignoring or bashing anyone who say they make a subpar product. I for 1 would rather buy the midwest based Rivian over…

At 2 dollars a gallon, a basic 24MPG sedan only costs 8.3 cents per mile. you save roughly 5.6 cents but pay 200,000 cents for that charger install. there for you have to drive for a couple years to pay that off (35,000 miles roughly). and hope that because you and everyone else did this, the electric company does not…

how so, i reiterated my main issue in the first sentence. “well, for one, I think most of the people that oppose it do not want to pay the 2 grand or more to get a reasonably useful charge into their car” I was simply responding to your redirection towards cost per mile. explaining the problem with it long term is…

I will take an article with the pictures and a small write up on each that I can scroll down on versus a slide show any day

This is for an enthusiast of these cars, as such there is not real Nice price or Crack pipe as they do not really check any boxes for regular people. I am honestly not sure who this checks the box for either except maybe a German expat who road around in one as a kid and is now looking for some nostalgia. Big car, meh…

correct, although by definition nothing done here is required to live, some might consider the adventure required to truly live, but that is subjective. To a League ticket holder that perhaps has no interest in van life or cars in general it definitely would seem silly to do what David is doing, same I am sure for Davi…

you are right of course, I think as a conglomerate of cars Ram separated in case they wanted to sell off the trucks and jeeps for profit and then shutter the doors on the cars. Chrysler is living on a fancy mini van and an aging Mercedes that is not selling that well. Strangely Dodge is also selling hopped up, but…

well, for one, I think most of the people that oppose it do not want to pay the 2 grand or more to get a reasonably useful charge into their car, then there is the very real concern that as demand increase and our infrastructure deficiencies become more of an issue electricity will go up in cost dramatically. What I…

and you made my point.

As someone who owns a couple 50 year old machines, i can say that eventually most of the parts would have had to be replaced regardless. But I can see the merit of a true peoples car for the guys who just want to get back and forth to work. unfortunately it is hobby prohibitive and thus a truck would still be…