DED! DED! GET THEH FECK IN HER, FE FECK SEK!

Mentally I’m stuck around about in 2003. 2017 feels like a far-flung date where we’ll surely have Hoverboards, while 1999 was only a moment ago.

The Model Eh?

Actually, I’m proud to announce that as of this morning, all three of my XJs run and drive (I just swapped an engine into my once-hydrolocked red XJ).

They function, and they’re well-maintained (assuming body rust isn’t considered a maintenance item).

It goes with my yellow GTO and yellow SV650. In additions to de-bleek-ifying the roads, it’s also hard to lose in a parking lot.

And here’s my brother’s 1995 Silverado 1500 and my 2015 Colorado. I would wager that they’re much closer in size than the NZ Fords. The only really apreciable visual difference is width (and my front end being lower because 2wd), which I wasn’t able to demonstrate in a picture. Oh, and I get craptons better fuel…

They retool with every new model, sure, but that doesn't include purchasing machines and other infrastructure required to produce the new model. Really the distinction that NYT is making is that for Tesla to start manufacturing a new model, they have to EXPAND production capacity while GM already has the capacity and…

GM is building 3 different vehicles on the same line. Tesla - not. Advantage GM.

From the title, I was really hoping this was a story about a band destroying a town in Florida.

Exactly. The new engine and transmission are already being used in other vehicles and the older versions are being phased out. They had no choice but to use it.

Why develop a whole new driveline just to say the truck “pulls harder when it’s accelerating?”

Mmmm. Cateredham.

I demanded, then, that they discontinue the car to hide my embarrassment.

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Bleh. Tesla face pasted on a regular truck. This is one place where they should go unconventional. No engine means no need for conventional nose and no interior penalty for going COE. Adding a couple feet to the bed (without adding overall length to the truck) is far more useful than a frunk. Also the lack of…

Okay, so the Miata is out, meaning the Jeep Cherokee XJ can now swoop in and become the official vehicle of Jalopnik!

“XJ is always the answer”— I like the sound of that!

I know this is Jalopnik so I will be taken out and shot for saying this, but this is why we need better public transportation and more walkable communities. So many people just don’t care at all about cars or driving and these are typically your inattentive drivers. They see a car as a chair in a box that gets you…