Self serve is illegal where I live on Long Island.

It should be on the driver’s side so that you can pay the pump attendant without getting out of the car.

Ford’s Canada-only marque in the 60's, the Frontenac:

I’m taking my kids to my uncle’s house tonight. It’s a 320 mile roundtrip; there’s no charging at his house other than just 120v trickle charging. I make that trip about once every other month; once a month I drop my kids at my in-laws’ house for the weekend, which is a 200 mile roundtrip on Friday night and then a…

I’ve never had a car that could go more than ~430 miles on a tank of gas, but I regularly go that full amount of distance without stopping. Why do people stop during road trips? Get where you’re going as soon as possible.

The Chevy Traverse is brand new for this model year. Other than interior space (and raw peak hp number, although not real- world acceleration), a loaded model is worse in every way than my Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy, and costs about $4k more.

Any Chevy. GM’s interiors in general are a joke, but Chevy in particular makes you feel like you’re sitting in a product designed for a developing market. I don’t want to pay US car prices for an Indonesian driving experience.

Long Island. Electricity costs are high here because in the 70's and 80's they built a nuclear plant that was 100% finished but never went online due to public opposition, and as a result electricity users have been paying off billions of dollars of high- interest rate bonds from the 80's ever since to pay for the…

How much are you paying for electricity at home? My home electric rate is $0.271 / kWh. So if I were to get, say, a Kia EV9 (which is roughly the same size as my current Hyundai Palisade), which has 280 miles of range from a 99.8 kWh battery, I’d be spending ($0.271 x 99.8) / 280 = $0.097/ mile for electricity if…

The Coyote engine in my Mustang can do hot pulls all day long (and since it’s a 2015, it has the bulletproof 6-speed automatic that can’t be killed).

You don’t do a 0-60 launch every time you get on an entrance ramp to a limited access highway? What’s even the point of having a fast car? And you can’t run into the back of cars changing lanes if you’re the first car at the light; you just outrun everybody else.

Huh, that’s interesting. I was unaware that EV technology had improved since the Model S launched.

Says who? 

The only time you can ever legally use a car’s full performance on public streets is going 0-speed limit-0 as quickly as possible between red lights or stop signs, so obviously if you’re an enthusiast you’re going to be doing that as much as possible.

I’m not talking about hot laps. I’m talking about 0-60-0 as quickly as possible, 0ver and over again, between stop signs or red lights.

The problem with this is that electric vehicles can’t repeat these types of acceleration runs that many times, so you can’t launch-control from every red light and stop sign for an hour while driving around town the way you can in an internal combustion engined car.

The Volkswagen Phaeton was an offense against the natural order of things.

The Plymouth Prowler’s entirely useless trunk is one of the funniest car design features I’ve ever seen. What are you gonna fit in this, a paperback book?

When I was in my early 20's and the PT Cruiser Turbo came out, I wanted one SO BADLY. It was my dream car, that or the resurrected Pontiac GTO.

Call me crazy, but I feel like you shouldn’t be able to market a car (such as the Corolla Cross) as “All Wheel Drive” if it’s a hybrid and the rear wheels are powered solely by an electric motor. You expect any AWD car to be capable of extended offroad rock crawling, and if you’re miles deep into Moab and the tiny…