That checks out. The Wrangler is still the final-boss of unrefined, but the 4R and Tacoma in the same orbit.

Your car looks awesome, and I love that you are taking such aggressive liberty in personalizing it. The shop looks like its doing a great job.

This was my assumption as well. This site actually had a bunch of documented stories about Wrangler customers taking a 4xe because it was the only thing on the lot, and the dealer didn’t even know to tell them (or intentionally didn’t tell them). It was framed as people who were never considering a hybrid getting one…

I’d ask one more question before recommending this choice: have you ever a owned/driven Wrangler, or something similarly off-roady? The Wrangler is particualrly old-school in a way that is fun, but a also PITA. It could be a bit jarring if your only frame of reference for an SUV is a CX-30 or something similar.

Do ZEV states give you more help similar to the fed incentives? I’m in the same spot because I have a beater 4Runner that sees less than 2k miles a year, but gets bounced around construction sites in underdeveloped places. My actual “DD” is a CTA 5000 Series for 90% of the year, so its hard to rationalize any car…

That was me, I gunned it while in it and I think I destroyed the gear.

Its both things. EV sales are rising but have not met the projections the companies that went all out on them were betting on.

I think the only person who would spend 35 grand on this thing already did, and now is going to be flummoxed as to why nobody else wants to buy it from them. 

1000%. The biggest proponents of EV’s will acknowledge the intent is not to *replace* gas station stops with L3 charger stops; its to have L2 charging available at a place where its parked for at leas 6 hours, either at home or work.

You lousy engineers know nothing about work in the field! I just talked to the glazer foreman on this jobsite and he says glass never breaks!

Crews can also sail as fast as possible. A suction effect will pull vessels downward in narrow bodies of water.

(approaches bridge, realizes they are too high by like 5')

You are an anomaly only in a narrative sense. There’s a culture of people out there that believe cars are an evil instruments of capitalist oppression. It’s small, but is exclusively democratic. As a result, there’s a lot of conservative messaging centered around “the woke lefties are gonna take your car…

Is the “neutering” you are referencing actually policies that were instituted by agencies, or just unwritten rules? I’m not disagreeing, I’m just curious which version of the very real neutering version you are getting.

Indeed, I just don’t know what it will lead to until it happens. The Chinese investing in production on our shores to sell us stuff throws a huge wrench into typical discourse around our relationship with them. And any big decisions that come of it will likely have an impact on the European’s/Japanese’s ability to…

3rd Gear is a fascinating exercise in contradicting partisanship. My money would be on Trump ripping up the IRA as soon as he gets in office just based on principle, which quite hilariously would make BYD more competitive here unless you tariffed/banned their products with more targeted legislation against them. Trump…

Heh, there’s a really pointed joke there about the thing looking better when it’s darker. The less of the finer details of the design you see, the prettier it gets.

Seriously, I’ve been yelling into the void about about a largemouth bass being the design model for Toyota for five years. I can’t believe we allow this to happen, let alone it spreads to freaking AM.

That angle makes the overall width look fine, but I still say that the bottom two chrome grille bars should be bumper. But to your point, that break in the center bottom bar is probably a sensor.

There’s a way to spin the joke about German pilots needing to speak to German ATC’s in English to suit this situation, but I’m not quite sure how to do it.