Eh, with the cost of hydrogen, it eventually turns bad (I think around the 10 year mark, at least against the aforementioned Crown). Over 250k miles, you’re spending at least $110k on hydrogen, assuming the infrastructure lasts that long (at least in the short term, it’s a safer bet).

Yeah, looks like that $15k of hydrogen is good for about 30k miles, so call it 3 years of commuting. If you assume the Mirai is completely worthless at the end of those 3 years, that’s still only $417/mo, which is a little cheaper than the current lease on a Toyota Crown, and would be nearly your only expenses for…

I don't know if cars are necessarily losing value faster, we're just addicted to cheap, abundant credit, increasingly long loan terms  and conspicuous consumption. 

Lancia already has an HF version of the Ypsilon planned, but since a) regular Italian cars don’t do great in North America and b) Chrysler dealers have nothing affordable without a ton of cash on the hood of Compasses, bring some variant of Ypsilon/208/Corsa over as a new cheaper car, and give us a GLHS while we’re at…

I’d finally say that you just can’t get this driving experience from a new car, but no, there are still brand new Challengers in dealers.

Hopefully it’s got enough aero it doesn’t...

Watch out for those gleaming alloy air-cars.

This is also a classic car now - it’s 30 years old, and the ZJ was absolutely one of the era defining cars, so of course a nice one is going to have some collectability to someone (not saying their name rhymes with Navid Stacey because this isn’t a Holy Grail 5-speed).

McBride Cycle closed long ago, but the guy who posed on the cover of Power Windows now owns a book/record shop directly across the road from where it used to be. I know, cool story, bro.

A few years back, I had a Corolla XSE hatch for a couple days, and it was surprisingly nice! Not thrilling exactly, but nice. Didn’t fall over itself, materials were fine, decent enough I could see tolerating it expecting it’ll last until Keith Richards finally retires. On the other hand, I had a Corolla LE rental…

Considering Disney owns Fox now, I'm baffled they're passing up money by making a Springfield version of this.

Taking a few minutes waiting for stuff to load to do the handful of work reports that no one’s going to read, but I’m obligated to do, and also hiding out from my kid for just a bit, because even after helping me shovel the driveway, he’s psychotic from excitement and doesn’t want to learn how to channel that energy…

I get the principle of no right on red, and I think it makes sense to roll it out depending on need, but at that point, we might want to just consider scramble crossings (think no through traffic while pedestrians go to whichever point of the intersection they need to), just completely separate the two modes.…

I actually did get saddled with a free Hyundai Accent. Twice. Hateful little shitboxes (especially the second which didn’t have A/C, and I had to drive for work), but functional enough it was hard to justify spending money for something nicer.

You’re not obligated to like it, but the mid-2000's Quattroporte is like peak Italian car in both the good and bad ways, and I frequently wonder just how much of a glutton for punishment I am.

90's era Chrysler took all sorts of wild swings, made interesting things, did top-tier concept cars, and if they weren’t American, more people would recognize that.

My house was built in the 40's, I have a fairly narrow driveway that runs between my house and the one next door. With something 72in wide, I can just get my bins or a bike or something past. Too many new cars are maxing out the allowable ~80in. The cars are too damn wide.

Stainless steel or aluminum? They absolutely built 20 Sables out of aluminum for testing, and have saved at least one.

Years ago, in the aftermath of a snowstorm, I get caught behind someone who can’t make it up a gentle hill because someone decided commuting in their M3 on summer tires was a good idea. I have nothing better to to, so help push them to the top of the hill just to get them out of the way. Just as we finish, one of…

For sure, I get how it makes sense as an EV, just if anything would make it feasible in North America, ICE might be it.