Do you honestly know anybody at all with a household income less than $300k who’s in a position to be shopping for a new car right now? I don’t. 

Wheels are your car’s jewelry. They should all be chrome. There should be no non-chrome wheels available outside of steelies on work vans.

Only if you qualify for the $7,500 tax rebate.

I could be wrong but I believe that springing for the navigation option gives you full onboard, offline navigation maps for all of North America? 

Getting a new minivan is a $50k proposition these days. Here you get all the utility for 20% of the price. NP.

Is the new Escape hybrid still front-wheel-drive only? Seems like a big tactical error by Ford, but, they did the same thing with the Maverick.

Free transatlantic business class flights are awesome and are relatively easy to get if you’re willing to game the AmEx points system in the proper ways.

Natural gas is already vastly cheaper than petroleum to use as an electricity source. And the electrical grid is going to need to be ramped up worldwide; I’m sure that nuclear power is going to be a big part of it, in addition to solar and natural gas and hydroelectric.

Cost of gasoline is going to skyrocket. Petroleum companies are already finding alternative uses for petroleum because they know that demand for gasoline as an automotive fuel is going to decline. No point in maintaining excess refining capacity for a product people use less and less of.

It’s not really a marketing issue. When gasoline/ diesel starts costing $25 or $30 a gallon — which they will in a few years, no question — people aren’t going to have too much of a choice in the matter.

Newborn in a car seat.

Honestly this is extremely tempting as a commuter car. Extremely tempting.

Ok but then why did GMC survive when Olds and Pontiac and Saturn and etc. were all killed off?

Really want to see how these do on a rock crawl at Moab.

As somebody whose job includes, partially, marketing, there simply is no more efficient way of targeting advertisements in existence than through Facebook.

See I think these are absolutely awesome and one thing I hope about the coming EV revolution is that coachbuilders can build modern versions of these on electric skateboard chassis.

I’m a big fan of most old cars, even ones that nobody likes. Crosleys? Yeah, I love them. Checkers? All day every day. But the one automotive trend that absolutely aged like milk is tail fins, and there is no worse-looking vintage car than the pinnacle of the trend, the 1959 Cadillac 62 series:

My AC is a bit less efficient than yours; I use about 18 kWh / day in the winter and around 70 kWh / day in the summer. But the big draw for me of bidirectional charging for an EV is that I live in an area that’s a) heavily forested; b) prone to lots of intense storms; and c) runs all of its electric wiring in…

For sheer weirdness, I’m going with something that I doubt anybody reading this thread has ever actually seen in operation: the Anzani dual-rotary six cylinder aircraft engine:

I don’t know why Jalopnik is celebrating somebody who so often texts while driving that they earned the nickname “Texter” for it.