No, it isn’t. There’s a difference. https://jalopnik.com/heres-a-nice-big-chart-of-all-the-major-two-door-body-s-1721051790

Yeah, the switch over to trunk monkeys after trunk boys were outlawed just caused all sorts of problems. My parents still talk about the banana shortage of ‘72. Lines going around city blocks for miles, waiting to refill their monkeys. All the poo being flung, mostly by the angry drivers waiting.

If GM management could actually find anyone as sensible and knowledgeable as you in their product development ranks I’m sure they’d be fired within the week.

You know what I don’t need? Screens that stretch from pillar to pillar. There are a limited number of things I need to know while I’m driving. Speed, maybe the remaining range, and then the info about what song is playing, or what playlist I’m on.

Oh don’t get me wrong, it’s a real deal disease, and steps should be taken to mitigate the damage that it’s going to do, but right now we’re freaking out about getting on an elevator when we rode a motorcycle without a helmet to the building.

Seconded. I mean, this is Jalop so the anti-capitalism drum needs to be beaten whenever there is a chance, but sometimes doing so in a blind union rage without considering any other angles makes you look silly.

Yes, this quote is pathetic if you assume that this man’s one and only feeling about COVID-19 is that he…

This is what a Cadillac is:

meh, if you are a rich person who has class you drive a Land Cruiser, if youre a rich boring person you drive an X7 or GLS. If if you are eff you wealthy you will drive an Bentayga or Urus or whatever the Rolls equivalent is.

“They don’t say, ‘I drive a Cadillac,’ they say, ‘I drive an Escalade people to and from the airport for a living’”

and replaced the timing chain prophylactically at 700,000 miles.

As a prisoner of Michigan, you sir, get a star

Specifically Michiganders, who are not much more than petulant children with fully-grown adult bodies.

I live in a major city so the only time I do drive it is on a 70 MPH expressway (public transit and walkable cities are cool).

If I can easily handle 85 mph speeds through the Appalachians in my 55hp flatbed I think the American people can handle a hatchback making 178hp.

Thirded, which goes back to my original point when these came out- a 200HP small turbo would have been fine

I don’t think there are any staffers who don’t own a car. And I have seven, so me and David are bringing the average up.

Yep.  I really wish Raph would stop covering the Ghosn stuff because it’s clear it’s not something he’s capable of covering objectively for whatever reason.  “I’m going to die in prison” and “I should have taken that other job that I turned down” are not only reasonable but logically correct positions for someone who…

Exactly. Not needing a car is different from there being no cars. Imagine a world (at least the urban parts of one) where everyone driving was driving because they wanted to drive, not because it was the only way they could think of to get from a to b in a reasonable time and they were angry because of course that…

I for one would be ecstatic if there were less unattentive people driving appliances on the road.

Outside of the USA used wranglers aren’t common. Plus they are a lot bigger & heavier. We use Jimnys as farm trucks, the beating they can take is exceptional.