A more meaningful comparison is gallons/100miles driven. Comparing the 4-cylinder EPA combined ratings the Bronco comes in at 4.8gal/100miles vs the Jeep’s 4.3gal/100miles or just a half gallon difference over 100 miles. Not insignificant but not earthshaking either. And remember, your mileage may vary.

[Psst! You forgot to tell him to quit with the slide shows.]

I won’t count the ‘69 Renault 16. It was a beater near the end of its life and I knew it when I bought it. (And it never stranded me at the side of the road.) My ‘86 Nissan Sentra (bought new) did leave me stranded more than once. I’ve owned 28 other cars over the years and none were as troublesome as the Sentra.

My mom wasn’t exactly a “car person” but she enjoyed driving. Most important, because my dad worked second shift it fell to mom to take me out for driving lessons after school. On their 3-on-the-tree Rambler wagon. Mom taught me how to drive a stick and I will be forever grateful for it.

Anybody else think the look on his face is kinda creepy?

Either Miata Is *Not* Always The Answer or none of the staff has ever asked the question. 

Just spitballing here. So Tesla loses the revenue from FCA but if there aren’t other car makers clamoring for those same credits the value of them goes down, right? A finite and shrinking demand meets a suddenly expanded supply. Free market, invisible hand and all that means an adverse impact on Tesla’s ledgers. Right?

Yes it was UAW. I had an ‘82 Rabbit and it proudly wore a “UAW-made” decal in one of the windows. I lived in a town with a GM plant and that decal was protection from random dents.

I just looked at who qualifies for Ford’s X-Plan pricing. Looks like it covers just about the entire U.S. population.

Manufacturers can use one of two EPA test procedures in reporting range. Tesla uses the more optimistic one, Ford uses the more pessimistic one. Reviewers are finding it pretty easy to beat the Mach-E’s EPA range in the real world but, as always, your mileage may vary.

“SNL is only live for the East and maybe central time zones.”

Twenty-nine cars over the years, many of them ill-advised. I didn’t know there would be a quiz.

Yup. I was keeping an open mind until I saw that.

“You Can’t Go Home Again.” — Thomas Wolfe.

This is as good a place as any to say this. An argument proponents of AVs like to put forward is that human drivers make mistakes all the time. This is true. However, most human mistakes are caused by drivers pushing beyond their own limits or, most commonly, by inattentive drivers engaging is all manner of…

I’m good.

Right. It’s called capitalism and you are expected to bow down and worship it.

No, the entire rear opened like a hatch (but they weren’t called hatchbacks).

Lots like this one were running around back in the day and most manufacturers offered one. We called them station wagons.