It has a backbone chassis, similar to what you’d find in a Elan or Europa. So, yeah, body-off mechanical is what you do to these.

Increasingly this is true, but even over at, say, BMW, they won’t charge you extra for black. Or at least they didn’t last I checked. At least include a gray or black. I guess Stellantis knows what it has.

Having seen a stripper 4-door Wrangler Sport in person I’m not sure I’d call $36K reasonable but sure Bronco is even pricier.

Wow, this is the first account I’ve seen of someone who bought a new Daewoo back then and got stiffed on the warranty. Not one of GM’s finer moments, since it wouldn’t have been very difficult to honor warranty service on what was basically a GM Opel under the skin.

The early SRX got the 3.0 V6 (even worse than the 3.6) or the 2.8T for a short time.

TBF, most cheap machinery designed in the early ‘70s wasn’t too far removed from tractors, either. Subie did have a special way of making a regular car feel like a piece of farm equipment, though.

The joke is funny enough to need no scrutiny but if you must, Elon contributed $30 million to Tesla in 2004, long before the company was “established” or even had any sort of sellable product. Legally, Tesla has five founders, including Musk.

The light cycle can be different in these situations. There is a period of time for the pedestrians and then a period of time when the pedestrians cannot cross even though there is a green light for the vehicle traffic in the same direction. But it can be hard to figure out when to do that pattern.

In that school bus example you cited states actually had to pass new laws in order to make those tickets stick. While I disagree that the federal government should ban right on red, I do agree that the move to legalize it decades ago was made in bad faith, with bad (or no) data. Therefore, municipalities should…

Do you even drive? Not having a left-turn arrow at some intersections means there are situations when heavy oncoming traffic allows zero cars to make the left-turn. That leads to bad decision-making by desperate drivers.

Similar issue in Boston with the tolls. It’s pretty annoying.

It’s hilarious the author misses the supply issue completely. Like, what? Why would Toyota would inexplicably sell only 6,000 Siennas in 2022 when it sold 70K in 2021 and 108K in 2020? Yeah, chip issue.

TDI cat delete for 2 hp gives off a strong odor of dumb.

...with Australian engine and Japanese transmission.

The 9-4x was actually smaller inside than the 9-5 wagon, which had only recently (2009?) been discontinued. It also didn’t have much more cargo space than a 9-3 SC, but the rear seat room was better.

The High Feature V6 was terrible but this has the 2.8T. Much much better, but certainly not nearly enough to explain this crazy high price.

Agree, that’s the biggest problem here.

Where it was located helped, too.

It’s not even close to Wrangler Unlimited size... 17" of wheelbase and 1,500 lbs curb weight difference. The Element is significantly lighter than even a 2-door Wrangler.

And nobody’s been looking to Lotus either, at least since Roger Moore was relevant. This is just the latest in a string of disgraces, from the ‘90s Elan (there’s GM again) to Danny Bahar.