The G-wagen is a very capable offroader, but yeah, fully agree.

Drove one once. I’ll give unique looking (well, until the HRR basically copied it), practical, and I guess reliable. But it was not fun to drive at all. 

Counterpoint - have you seen recent Lexi? 

If you don’t have rear-seat passengers, it’s easier to get in and out of a two door car because - generally - the doors are bigger.

Texas here. There’s no statewide behavior, but different cities certainly have their own vibes.

Meh.

Man, I remember that bright, shining moment from maybe 99-2004 or so when it seemed like Nissan could do no wrong. The 350Z was a bit bloaty, but a Z. The Maxima was probably the best FWD sport sedan out there, and punched well above its weight. The new Altima was pretty highly thought of at launch. The Xterra had…

This list is bad, I’m sure the methodology is some search-based garbage that yields terrible-but-clickbaity results.

You could probably get a more accurate list by drawing sides out of a hat. 

Picky-ass little kids beg to differ...

THIS. I tend to forget about stop/start in the summer because my Pilot has to keep pushing AC at considerable levels, so it doesn’t even try to turn off.

I live in Texas, where pickups are possibly more apolitical than other places because so many people drive them (something staggering like a quarter of all pickups sold are sold in Texas...forget the exact stat but it’s crazy). And there’s a very, very loud minority for whom it is absolutely a political and lifestyle…

*That* version of conservatism is a relatively new thing, though. It’s like modern conservatism took all the worst elements of country club Republicans, western Goldwater-style footsie-with-libertarianism Republicans, evangelical hypocrites, and Southern Democrats, added in a few decades of increasingly propagandistic…

I’m going to argue against Land Rover being on this list for two reasons.

I’m 100% in favor of the flight crew having tranquilizer guns. 

Ubiquitous recording devices in everyone’s pocket just makes it easier to capture all this shit and show it to other people, so it *seems* like there’s more. 

Yes, asthma is absolutely still a thing. 

Well what about the Euro SUVs? I think the VW Atlas may be NA only, but I’m certain you can buy the BMW X3, X5, Audi Q5, various and sundry Land Rovers, etc that somehow pass muster.

I don’t see the front end of an X5 or Defender as any different from an Explorer or whatever in terms of pedestrian safety

SUV size classifications are all over the map these days it seems, but yeah, it’ll be half-ton pickups and larger midsize SUVs (Explorer, Pilot, Telluride, Grand Cherokee etc) that ultimately drive EV adoption. Those and minivans.

The MX-30? Looks great, but still too small for my needs. Want something in the general size of the Pilot/Highlander/Atlas/Telluride/etc.

And my wife has been clamoring for an EV minivan for years.

We’re both Honda loyalists, but they’re dragging their feet so bad on this that I have a feeling we may be jumping ship. 

One of the things I’ve always hated about hybrids - the hybrid trims of regular vehicles are always ugly as sin. Big stupid chrome slat grilles and stupid wheels and so on.