That’s very true. From a real world perspective: look around at your parking lot at work, at a parking lot at starbucks, at a grocery store parking lot. What you’ll notice is many F-150s, and none of them are towing 10,000 lbs. For what these will be used as 99.99% of the time, they’re perfect. I’m so glad one of the…

Did the kia soul EV ever come to the states? From what I’m seeing online it was a UK model only...

I’d love to, however all 6+ driving schools in my area do not teach manual. I’d love to learn, however folks in my friend group don’t have manuals anymore :/

Awesome color too!

I resonate with this 100%, we just got ourselves our first “nice” car after 18+ years and it was worth it. I honestly wish we got it sooner...

Likely prepayment penalty. 

I completely agree. It’s mind boggling why folks buy houses without shopping their mortgage rate. If you spend 5 min with a calculator you’ll see the interest can total over a hundred thousand dollars over the life of the loan.

Don’t forget about Mini’s!

(slow clap)
*Say it agin for the people in the back

Reminds me of the Aloha Airlines Flight 243 “decompression event” in the 80's

GV70 should be at least considered as part of the driving homework. 

Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, Low. They’re the standard gear selection in US automatic transmission cars. 

Rivian SUV:

Kevin - to you and the other Jalopnik writer, we kindly ask for more articles like this. So often when journalists are flown out for an event, 90% of the reviews of any car it is is positive with a slight negative sentence at the end. This felt real, unadulterated, truth, and resonated with a lot of us readers, check…

You sir are runner up to COTD, I spit out my water. 

Absolutely and in addition, cold weather, for short trips, can reduce internal combustion engines efficiency up to 30%:

Also interesting note: you’ll notice that most of the words on highway signs are in sentence case not all capitals. It was found later that all capital letter words take a longer time duration for humans to perceive than sentence case.

Completely agree. I can’t help but to smile every time I see one. In a world where every car has to have an angry face (looking at all the Jeeps in my area), it’s refreshing to see a vehicle that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

I think so, however one great test for reliability is Taxi’s. If you’re in NY, almost all of the cars are Toyotas for a reason...

I thought the gross vehicle weight was limited to 80,000 lbs in most states?