Let’s do some quick math here compared to a thrifty gas-powered taxi vehicle. Say, a Prius.

“but these f**king foreigners ain’t taking over my f**king country!”

Good one Mercedes, enjoyed the read. VW knows how to make an offroad electric beast if they want to. Three Audi E-trons just finished the Dakar with a few stage wins thrown in. Excellent first effort. Even if the rear wheels kept falling off and shock dampers breaking. If VW made an offroad capable ID.4 that just…

Steve, are you a Western New York native? I am very much here for the Genny Cream and Wegman’s references.

What’s wrong with that interior?

For the young people on Jalopnik, this guy is Duke Nukem.

Reasons I’ve given up on cars in the last few years:

I used to say “when your monthly repairs average get close to a monthly car payment, It’s time to dump the car”. That was when you could trade in towards a new Altima and end up paying $300 a month for 36 months. Now that I’ve had my current car for almost seven years and I absolutely love the thing, and its analog no…

To me the real-life feedback of how a car is to live with should be leaps and bounds more important than some nebulous “reliability” figure that is generally pointless anyway with everything under warranty and people trading in ASAP these days.

This is just one of those cars that doesn’t do what it says on the box. “sporty compact car” = lethargic 1.2 turbo or lackluster hybrid with a CVT. “Practical small SUV” = postage stamp rear window, tiny boot and really high sill lines in the back with no leg room. It just doesn’t work on any level. 

Also most cars are leaps and bounds more “reliable” than they were even 20 years ago. Any unscheduled trip to a service department is enough to have some people trading in immediately like it’s a death trap. Even cars from famously “unreliable” brands are generally fine. My Chevy Cruze is just under 90K miles, and has…

I’ve never understood the CH-R. It had the body that the Corolla cross should have had and not the platform. who wants a FWD pseudo crossover/hatch thingy with terrible visibility?

Two of my vehicles require carbide, water and a flint to activate the headlamps. One needs lamp oil and a match. On the upside, none of the three have distractingly bright dashboards.

Meanwhile in America:

I am all in, why not? Run a few tests on it, throw a few parts at it, if it works you win, if it doesn’t a guy like me who has never owned one learns to speak Mercedes, and it gets sold for around what I bought it for, or parted out 

Thank god they didn’t know my friend Brandon was in the car.

Exactly, you can waive your right to sue for the reasonably expected hazards of a hazardous activity. You cannot waive right to sue for something so batshit out there that nobody would have expected it. Normally lawyers profit from the inevitable gray area, but this one seems cut and dried. So to speak.

This goes beyond the conduct that you can waive. Typically it has to be related to the activity in question. Getting blasted with water while a ski lift isn’t really the type of risk you expect from skiing. 

I’ve been sprayed by one of the snow guns on a hill before for a few seconds and it was brutal. The pressure is really high in those things.

2-3 times a week I find a new stop sign that should be a yield sign. I have no idea why the whole country is so afraid of yield signs.