Omg, I had a 1984 mercury lynx.   What a total pos that thing was! At one point while driving around (thankfully pretty slowly) one of the tie rod ends failed and the two front wheels pigeon toed towards each other.   Too bad that crap can wasn't totaled right then. 

They need to make the 2.5t the base engine in the g70 and stinger now.   The 2.0 those are rocking won't cut the mustard if you can have a faster n line sonata. 

We will all be welcome in Russia comrade. I hear it will be much nicer after the US turns to a desert wasteland. 

Cheap shot man! Giulias have had their share of issues, but failing to start or run isn’t one of them.

I'm pretty sure that's how I'd be using it, for the extra power the electric motor would provide.   Electric only would be nice in certain situations,  like when the tank is almost empty.   Maybe the wife would use electric only mode sometimes, but it sounds like it would go back to being pretty slow in that mode. 

While the mach E name is just fine,  I'd much rather drive a car with the horse emblem than one with a blue oval.   I think they got that part right. 

Maybe I'm a little paranoid, but I don't even trust that they can't see any activity on my personal devices that are connected to the office wifi.  

I’m not sure why this is, but the more people here complain about how they loathe the sight of fastback crossovers, the more it makes me want to get one of them. Maybe it’s because I want something different, not mainstream? I used to hate crossovers/SUV’s but in my advanced age I find it so much easier to get in and…

That's because fiat parts are coming from Italy, jeep parts wouldn't have the same issue.

Most people don’t buy cars that are “average priced”. Most people buy cheaper cars. The average is skewed by the moderately expensive cars more affluent people lease and the really expensive cars wealthy people (who in my opinion are much more frequently buying cars) are buying.

Whatever you say, I’d rather be in a loaner for extended periods than be stranded somewhere even once. But I guess that’s different strokes for different folks. Honestly after being in the shop that long it definitely qualified for a dealer buyback, and most owners would have pursued that and moved on to a new or…

It’s a first year car for the US, where the software is a lot different from euro spec cars. You know, the software that controls the electronics that kept throwing the glitches that were being reported. The US market got to be beta testers, which is no way to launch a car here. There should have been more testing for…

The cars with issues were largely ones made for the U.S. market where Alfa has not been selling cars for the past 20 years or so. A lot has happened with car technology in that time, to say Alfa was not properly prepared for the software issues during the relaunch would be an understatement. It’s really too bad they…

It's a mental barrier thing.  A lot of people, myself included might think of a car over 50k as somewhat attainable, but not one over 60k.  That barrier number has changed quite a lot for me through the years.

The first ones off the line and in dealership orders are usually not base models.  Since the first years production is already sold, your best bet to get a base model will be to order one.

Just how “punchy” did it feel in pure EV mode?  Enough to keep up with traffic?

True, he would buy it or have a few words with anyone outbidding them at the auction.

“Can't nobody tell me nothing..."

The stanza was what became the Altima.

Go to the dealership website and build the car you want with that manual, and if there is an option to save that configuration do it. Use their search function to see cars that match your configuration.  Go back every week and do it again. Start doing this months before you actually plan on buying.  Eventually that…