Nailed it. GMT800 platform with less than 200k and no visible rust is a rare great find. Assuming the trans was maintained, this is probably the most reliable and comfortable transportation you could find for 7 grand. I’m sitting here drooling looking at the state of that interior.

Was the 4L65 more of a problem than the for 4L60? I know the latter was good to 300k with maintenance, and everything I read about the former was that it was built to be even more robust (although it would be extremely GM for those “improvements” to have somehow made it worse.)

I don’t think you should assume the racing partnership has much bearing on the consumer product front. The racing side of it is good publicity, but not really the point.

Seconded. I remember the first year after the Trump election was actually a really good listen most of the time. I particularly remember him putting Ben Shapiro, Stephen Crowder, and Candace Owens in the crosshairs over climate change and gay marriage views and making them all very flustered.

“You think negative review about a car as a new company is forming isn’t a big deal?”

I would tack on that the C8 is such a departure from the “traditional” Corvette, a lot of the traditional customer base that isn’t interested in them. There’s gotta just be less demand for them secondhand in general. 

I also love that they are talking about a review of a vehicle that probably shares almost nothing with anything Tesla produces today. Like, why is anyone re-deliberating a product from the company’s infancy? What a strange thing to have such strong feelings about.

Chris Harris is one of the few people that I might have actually held my nose and listened to a Rogan episode to hear speak in an informal setting. But knowing there is still a bunch of Tesla shilling going on by Rogan? Blech, hard pass.

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')