Wow.  24 hrs later and image of wrong Kia still not updated.   

Oooh! This has Hyundai Staria vibes, and I write that as a compliment. Make it!

Manwich is right.  AT BEST you break even.  In reality, snow tires provide greatly reduced gas mileage.   For my car it’s a good 2-4 mpg.  Add that to the cost of winter tire ownership and breaking even is not going to happen.

I’ve done the snow tire thingy for a few years now. Bought highly rated tires and their own wheels. I’m extremely underwhelmed in their utility.

Except to a few folks who fell in love with the quirks of these cars, there’s no reason whatsoever for this company to exist anymore, since they serve virtually no one’s requirements. Other than arguable cuteness, they provide nothing compelling. There is ALWAYS a better alternative from some other manufacturer.…

Ha! You just brought a little more joy into the world.

I could not stand the outgoing Ranger’s looks. It was plain and weirdly shaped, since it was based on the global market’s needs for narrower vehicles to fit in much of the world’s narrower streets/roads. Narrow and tall did not look good.

This is an even better comment if read outloud in a Bulgarian or Russian accent.

Apropos everything jalopnik except this article:

Uhhhh.

Honestly, Cadillac’s whole history is littered with shit names.

What is the USDOT regulation number specifying ugly wheels on electric vehicles?

No. We did this faux retro kit shit in the 1980's. We mostly stopped since too many children were being hurt. For reasons.

Driving through width restrictor bollards at 50 mph and passing unscathed is one of the greatest joys in life, doubly so if a council member sees you doing it and soils himself.

Why did I have to scroll through 60 “they deserve it” dipshit posts to finally find one that points out the obvious.  This is a punitive shit design that needs to be reworked immediately.  Make that a decade ago.

This needs to be in the slideshow.

An extra $2 electronic module that is available at a higher trim, for which you’ll pay just $5400 extra.

I’d disagree with this one. Winding roads, with minimal traffic? Gimme a manual for life. Day to day city / suburb driving? No thank you. And the latter is where most of us spend our driving time.

That’s because auto start/stop is not designed with the consumer in mind. It’s a tool purely used to lower automakers’ fleet mpg avearages, even by that tiny bit.

I’d argue the series should have stopped after the first book.   Kind of like the Matrix movies, the first release was magic, while all followups just dug deeper into the latrine.