Indeed, this warrants the more classical term: fishtail.

The important thing is getting people to understand that widespread charging either where they live or work isn’t optional. We aren’t going to be able to “replace” a gas station fill up with a L3 charging station visit once every couple of weeks, it needs to be L2 charging wherever the car is parked for 4+ hours a…

Also add in anyone who owned one in the 90's and early 00's, and can’t be bothered to do any research into the brand now. I have so many friends I can’t talk out of buying newer Nissans because they were actually treated fairly well by products of the pre-Ghosn era.

Probably a bit of Column A and Column B. While I think a note in the passenger’s native tongue might help keep them calm in this situation, there’s no wrong answer here because of both colonialism, and the international language of aviation and business.

For a project in college, me and my friends came up with a business model for buying high-mile but no-rust trucks in the southwest and shipping them to the rust belt where such things would probably be more valuable. I’m still convinced it work. 

I’m convinced their ownership of the market for people trying to be outwardly outdoorsy is something that happened on accident. They were originally selling small rugged vehicles only to people who needed such a thing, then it just so happened to become fashionable, so they leaned into it. Same thing probably would…

Indeed, the fault in all these cars is that while the initial quality might have been good, they just did not last. They were the last of that era where most cars were write-offs at 100k miles. The youngest would have been 12 years old by the time cash for clunkers happened. 

Folks, I don’t need my commercial vehicles to be lookers, but the whole “Ram grille multiplied b 1/4th” thing here is not it.

I mean, you’re seeing an exercise of the former in California: CSHR is being built much closer to a global standard of high-speed rail with few to none at-grade crossings, separation from freight traffic, and more thorough design work general... but it’s also years behind and millions of dollars over budget.

It’s magnified by the fact that so few of them have survived, too. That combined with the fact that it’s what I grew up in has made me a crank for this era of GM cars in general. Anytime I see something like my Mom’s ‘92 Century or my Grandma’s 6th gen LeSabre, my head snaps around immediately.

I probably would’ve done the same with my parents’ if it hadn’t gotten destroyed by a cherry picker when I was 10. Would have loved to whip that thing around in high school. 

Oh man, I’ve got the worst opinion on this, but I’m going to ride it anyway:

The “reporting” on this specific subject has just been the worst for a growing issue. Every single scrap of information gets its own piece on the site with a “WOW HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THIS” bit of writing thrown onto it. I miss the version of this place that would aggregate all that information in one single piece and…

Not only that, but the premise of the article itself just makes it worse. Raw sales numbers without context is probably the least relevant data point you could add to a discussion that has a lot of moving parts.

Not the point of the article, but holy moses is that Corolla appalling to look at. Whoever walked into Toyota and decided everything needs to look like an angry carp should be thrown out of the nearest window.

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a ride home from an upperclassmen who was sort of a friend. He was a good dude who I knew for awhile because we had older siblings that were tight. However, about 10 seconds into the 5 minute drive to my house, I noticed an alarming trend:

Along the same lines: what sort of person advertises a car as “Tow Yard Special”? Is that supposed to make people want the car more? 

Confession Time: The second description of generic boomer hot rods made me want one.

I can sort of understand, but the whole industry deserves to be in that bucket. GM practically destroyed the evidence of the EV1 project. Last year, they sold the most Tahoes they ever have since the recession. That Toyota doesn’t bother with an overpriced BEV isn’t some kind of indictment, especially when they…

1. Indifferent on the styling itself (not bad, not great), but I kind of dig the proportions. Smallish overall dimensions with a decent size interior and rides a little high is something the world needs more of.