“pandemic-electric blandness”

The tax man will definitely view this as income and with no withholding the kid is going to have to take out a car loan to pay the taxes on it. Still, it beats walking.

GM stays at (or near) the top for the same reason Toyota does: they cover every conceivable corner of the market. Doesn’t matter if their entries dominate any of their segments, they just have to be in all of them.

I even saw an ad once for the Jeffery “American Rambler”, foreshadowing perhaps American Motors’ “Rambler American” introduced in 1958. The Nash Rambler of 1950 was related to the Jeffery Rambler in name only. The Rambler name had in fact been dead since 1915 when Charles Jeffery changed the name of the car to Jeffery…

“Hudson and Nash stayed afloat until the company killed off the names, replacing those badges with the AMC label.”

Low hanging fruit but, yeah.

I think price is another limiting factor. EVs that are roomy enough for family use and have decent range start in the low to mid $40k range and go up from there. Sure, the average price of a new car is around $45k these days but that means a big slice of the market is for cars selling for less than that. Range,…

His review of the Tribeca got Robert Farago fired from The San Francisco Chronicle for writing the car’s face resembled a “flying vagina”. At least one manufacturer cut off Farago’s The Truth About Cars blog site from getting press vehicles citing this and other issues. Some people can be so touchy about such things.

“Hopefully people will wake up and realize monopolies aren’t good for them, and we’ll get some major breakups.”

Nice detective work. Confirms my ND vote. Thanks.

Ouais.

Renaults back then were pretty crappy and the R5/Le Car, beyond its comfortable ride, had little to recommend it. Reliability was not a strong suit with these and with a dealer and parts network long since dried up keeping this on the road would present challenges. Maybe, just maybe, if this were being sold by a…

Or sometimes tangelos. 

Neither is brain surgery but it’s still kind of hard.

Sorry old chap if I didn’t make it clear. When I referred to the linked video posted on the Youtube channel CGTN I was referring to the linked video in the article “EV battery-swapping finds new life in China” on the Youtube channel CGTN, not the Twitter video. Thanks for the opportunity to clarify.

The linked video is posted on the Youtube channel CGTN, or China Global Television Network, a state-run media outlet under the control of the propaganda department of the CCP. Take the story with a grain of salt.

My first vehicle — registered in my name — was a 1967 Honda 305 Scrambler. I bought it to drive back and forth to community college without having to borrow one of my parents’ cars. I got a flat tire on it once, ran out of gas with it once (turned the fuel tank lever too far on start up) and got caught in the rain…

Good idea. I’ve also heard the YouTube algorithms nick a creator if viewers leave part way through the video.

If it’s all the same to you, I’m not going to watch his video. I don’t want to add to his clicks.

Looking at a ‘66 for sale on Hemming’s right now, it has the same two-spoke steering wheel and tail lights as this one advertised as a ‘65. Maybe this one is an actual ‘65 or maybe both were assembled from donor cars. At any rate, the asking on this one is below all the 2CVs listed on Hemming’s – way below most of…