Walking into the Udvar-Hazy, the place is so big that noise just fades away. It feels like walking into church. I’m in so much love with that place.
Walking into the Udvar-Hazy, the place is so big that noise just fades away. It feels like walking into church. I’m in so much love with that place.
Thats my first thought. Why waste battery cycles?
Those vents on the front bumper are for helping air flow around the car.
For anyone reading this, the DC Mall location is worth visiting
Exactly. Where I work (nothing to do with the auto industry), we have the weirdest accounting. There are about 900 ways to count the beans and most of them sound like some sort of weird phrase a Jonesing herion addict would say. My customers don’t get three flips how we label and compartmentalize the various amounts…
I always tell them I want the out the door price. Fees, taxes, tags, cleaning, inspection, little tree air-freshener, whatever included. Then we work with this number. I want to pay $x out the door PERIOD. If they can’t drop a $250 docking fee to get there, then cut the base price $250, I don’t care.
Exactly.
I understand why they’ve existed (and were encouraged to exist) for a long time. Seems like we’ve figured out a direct-to-customer model at this point though and you’d think we’d want to ditch them as soon as we could.
So VW’s talking 2022? That’s 10 years after the release of the Model S. Crazy to me it’s been that long and no automaker has come up with a car that has taken away the ‘default EV’ status from Tesla.
Dealerships can charge whatever they want because we’ve allowed them to exist for some strange reason.
My MIL, who just retired, TO THIS DAY won’t buy a Ford because they built the Pinto.
Europe context : countries plan to ban ICE-cars sales by 2040.
This. The unending warnings I received from friends and family when I picked up my Fiesta ST were nuts. Even with me explaining that it’s a completely unique powertrain, every non enthusiast I know thought I was crazy for looking at a ford
I don’t think your take is the point of the tax. Not all taxes are designed to discourage use. They have to be exorbitantly high to have that effect. The point is to fund other transportation initiatives. Giving people more options over flying. No one is going to not fly because of a $20 tax on a seat but they might…
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Thanks!
Highlander is a 3-row medium-large SUV. So it competes with the Pilot, Pathfinder, Explorer, CX-9, Sorento, Santa Fe, Traverse, Ascent, Atlas, et. al.
...if it was priced like a Corolla. I am not sure how much you can up-market a “Corolla” before people chose to buy another car.
Yup, I wouldn’t even demand the 6MT if I could have that body over the 180hp 2.0L hybrid.
1st -It might be another small CUV, that would be in keeping with the times. But I bet it’s between RAV4 and Highlander. A midsize two-row, like the Blazer, Edge, Passport. The three-rows are getting bigger because people won’t just buy the damn van, but they don’t quite want/need a $60K body on frame “real SUV”. And…