Where I live a) there is no rental housing so if you don’t own a house you don’t live here; b) the median home price is around $900,000 and you cannot find any house at all for sale for less than $500k. So, no, nobody is driving a new Corolla. If you can’t afford a new luxury car, you buy a used luxury car.

Chrysler ME Four-Twelve. There’s a world right now where Chrysler matters; in that world, this car was produced.

If Jeep can make a plug in hybrid Wrangler, I'm sure Ford can manage.

Andthe PHEV version is... where?

Hey remember how Alfa Romeo gave every automotive journalist a test drive with a Giulia Quadrifoglio and they all independently broken down during their test drives? Those journalists weren’t aiming to crap on Alfa. Alfa did that to themselves. Ditto here.

In my town of just over 200,000 people on Long Island, there are a total of two Tesla Supercharging stations - one with 6 outlets and one with 12 outlets. In Brooklyn - population 2.7 million - there are 2 Tesla superchargers and 3 Tesla destination chargers. Unless there’s some super-secret map of hidden…

Tesla Model 3, more than every other new car combined. After that, probably Lexus NX or RX. Live on Long Island, drive to Manhattan for work.

Because I find this subject interesting, I actually sat down and watched that video. Thank you, so much, for pointing me to a 7 1/2 minute video that didn’t provide the relevant information until 5 1/2 minutes into it. Yet again proving that there is literally no piece of information that is conveyed better via video…

That’s not better! For example, when you’re in a snow bank, and you have to rapidly shift from reverse to drive and back to reverse as you build momentum to get out of it... how do you do that if the car is trying to sense what gear you’re supposed to be in? When you’re getting out of a parallel parking spot, and you…

The idea that you’ll only be able to move from park to reverse to drive via a touchscreen is maybe the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of in any car. 

Cannot disagree with this more. When I buy a car, I’m going to be spending perhaps a thousand hours a year in it for the next ten years. I want exactly what I want. I don’t want to get the sandalwood trim and spend the next decade angry that I didn’t hold out for the walnut trim. If that means I have to wait a year or…

Right; presumably the Mach-E and the Tesla Model X and the Kia Telluride and every other SUV is designed with those things in mind as well? All SUVs are designed primarily to go off road, after all; that’s what differentiates them from sedans or minivans.

I was born in 1980. That year, there were 23.4 traffic deaths per 100,000 people in the US.

I figure those are the same for any SUV?

Towing without stability control in the year 2023 is basically just a lower-probability of success method of suicide. 

Why would you say this wouldn’t do the Rubicon? It’s an SUV with four driven wheels; in what way is the offroad capability of this any less than that of a Bronco?

Bronco Sport still does

Amazing car let down by a lazy drive train. But throw 500 hp of electric motor out back, and it would be gold.

Gasoline refining is expensive. Petroleum companies are going to pull refineries offline sooner than later.

Been at least 10 years since I’ve used a CRT.