Yes. EV’s are bought as second, limited use cars. People who are buying hybrids like I just did, want to use less gas, but nothing in EV world made any sense for my needs at $50,000. Until just recently, it really has been a Tesla only world or niche cars and that is just not enough selection to meet the average…

A 2020 used Leaf gets 150 miles, is under $25k, and would be eligible for used EV tax credit.

Manual transmissions gotta disagree. I think people really don’t want them. The trend is there, more and more people see cars as appliances and don’t want to deal with shifting.

It does require a cultural shift where people don’t expect to take the car home today like they do now. Other countries do it just fine. We could too.

yeah dealers suck but either the American consumer is a spineless bucket of meat and is just willing to settle to drive a new car home today or maybe dealerships are actually in tune with the consumers desires? If people really wanted colorful manual affordable cars the expensive automatic black cars would rot on the…

The new hotness that was EVs has seemed to start cooling off.

Stellantis says it sent six recall notices to the owner of the truck involved in the collision, but each went unanswered.

TL/DR- Racism really seems like a lot of unnecessary work and you’d have to be an idiot to do it.

I have a 2019 Nissan leaf and it is exactly what you need. No frills, it’s not tracking me, only has 150 mile range and it never lets me down. I live in San Diego and we drive it the 💯 % of the time when we’re all together(my partner and our 2 kids, sometimes the 2 dogs). If we go out of town we use the gas car. The…

Car makers have to be responsive to the needs and wants of their customers. The catch: Their customers are franchised dealerships. That’s who they sell cars to.

It’s surely a good point when the sedan body style is disappearing in the US, yet Tesla Model 3 is selling like hot cakes.

I sense a contradiction? First you complain that EVs are too expensive. Then in the very next sentence condemn the Bolt as “an ugly bucket of crap”. AFAIK the Bolt is generally well-regarded. Most people who have them seem to like them okay. Yeah, it’s kinda homely, kinda basic. It’s not a luxury car. That’s the deal.

Just get a hybrid. Apparently, there are much nicer for the price available. Me, I’d go with a Tesla roadster.. Oh wait, did I say roadster? that’s slightly out of budget.

If this were the dump the kids at school, run errands, secondary car... I would absolutely recommend it. But as a replacement for a family hauler, not so much.

I don’t know what your budget is, but I’m seeing Ioniq 5's for sale on Autotrader in the mid $30k range with between 20k-40k miles. Since your wife wants a small car, but you have kids, it’s got the maximum interior space for the least exterior volume. It’s about 3" longer and wider than a Golf Sportwagen.

I’m sure you know this, but...

Quite frankly, the Tesla system is a lot better than BMW’s system.

As someone who has spent significant time commuting to work by everything from subways (4 years) to cars (5 years) to bicycles (8 years) to walking (3 years) at various times in big cities and suburban areas, I can comfortably say commuting by car is the worst way to do it. It’s tedious and stressful. I’d rather…

Dealerships will be the death of good cars.

I’d also like to mention the trend with Manufacturers and dealerships:

Dealership: Orders everything in black, white, and gray. Pushes sales on the cars they have in stock.
Manufacturer: *arms up in the air* Hmmm, I guess people don’t want to buy colorful cars, let’s stop offering colorful cars.