Keyless entry isn’t Bluetooth.

Um...I don’t think gas stations are going to disappear in 12 years. Are you serious?

I get the sense this is going to replace the two-row Passport as Honda’s de facto midsize crossover. Like the RAV4, Forester, Rogue, Tucson, Sportage and other vehicles, it continues to grow.

I can’t think of a more boring car. Still, it’s the omni-tool of cars, and that’s very good. I will probably end up recommending it to most people who ask me which car they should buy.

The term SUV has come to broadly define any high-riding vehicle with a non-separated cargo area. The only reason SUVs were traditionally truck-based is because that’s the technology that was available. The first SUVs were really just two-door short-bed pickups with caps and sometimes rear seats. So, again, it’s an…

That would be true, if the Telluride weren’t consistently going for $10K over sticker. When it costs $62K, it makes you want to start looking at other stuff.

Yep. It makes engine work on the L319 (LR3/LR4) and L320 (gen.1 Range Rover Sport) a lot easier, because you can just lift the body off of the frame to do major engine head work, instead of pulling the engine out of the car and putting it on the bench. Here’s where my client did it.

I agree with everything you said.

Can yo, like, not? We get it. You and your cohorts have made this argument ad nauseam. We’ve heard it plenty of times. But while you’re screaming into whatever Not-a-Crossover™️ vehicle you happen to be driving, people are buying these in droves.

The reason you’d buy anything else is because it’s hard to get a Telluride, especially without a ridiculous markup. The Telluride is a very impressive statement at the MSRP that Kia set. It’s a lot less so when you’re paying $10K over sticker, which puts it in the realm of many luxury SUVs.

Automakers are, at the end of the day, businesses, which have to make money. If they could actually sell the Mazda6 Wagon, or indeed even the sedan, they’d be here.

I believe the Volvo C30 was supposed to pay homage to the P1800ES, especially at the rear. The C30 ended up looking quite a bit less sleek and more bulbous, but was still a handsome little hatchback.

Most convertibles don’t have visible roll-bars, because most people aren’t tracking their convertibles. They’re the sort that deploy when the car detects a rollover.

Correct. I just completed a 2,600-mile trip in a 2022 BMW X5 xDrive45e (PHEV). Since I wasn’t able to charge and couldn’t use the electric range on the interstate, it averaged something like 20-21 MPG. A regular X5 xDrive40i would have done more like 26 MPG highway. The battery was an 800-lb weight penalty.

I think the Pacifica Hybrid is definitely the best option.

For all intents and purposes, the V60 T8 Polestar is a modern V70R successor.

They did discontinue the GS. Its last year was 2020.

That’s exactly what I said.

Saturn was doomed because it didn’t turn a profit, and because it was borne into GM.

The Fusion was not on the D3 platform.