Chrysler’s ace in the hole is that it’s the “name-on-the-door” division. It was Chrysler Corporation since time immemorial, it was Chrysler Group under FCA and nobody’s saying “Stellantis North America”.

That was my thought on reading the headline; “and 20-plus gallons of gasoline somehow isn’t?!”

Even a 10 min/100 mi recharge ratio is reasonable for non-work road tripping if there’s enough charging infrastructure that you can be reasonably certain of a chance to plug in every time you stop to take a leak, and can get a full charge and a sit-down meal at the same time.

I had wondered since I first saw your byline if it was a chosen name, and...wow. It goes so much deeper than just a pen name.  All  I can say is to join the chorus of people thanking you for sharing.

Is this the beginning of G/O Media offering to sell the rights to Torch’s back catalog back to him/The Autopian, always for a little more than he’s able or willing to pay, stringing him on for decades until finally in a Rosebud moment Spanfeller wills it to Otto?

The way I see it, even with actual pump prices slowly drifting down ($4.19 last time I looked, from a just-after-the-invasion peak of $4-65) in the current climate if you can’t sell EVs like warm bread you can’t sell cars.

Does it really matter though? Assuming the fake decoy car has the performance parameters of a Corolla XR/XRS hatchback that’s still more power than you’ll be able to use to get away in traffic at least until your past the Tappan Zee Bridge. 

I work in a grocery store that’s a pretty good company to work for, but we have a problem with one vendor that hasn’t sent in a merchandiser for months. One of the other vendors’ merchandisers said he used to work for them, they tried to hire him back and he told them he’d do it for $20 an hour. Hasn’t heard back…

So what makes the Maserati Grackle Folgers different from the regular Grackle again?

The Dodge dealer around here sold Yugo as a second line. They only ever had one GVX which cost significantly more than the $3990 base model; I’m sure anyone expressing serious interest would quickly be upsold to a (base non-Shelby) Omni or Colt. 

2-door coupe or 5-door liftback makes a lot more sense than the other way around - do you want to optimize weight and shell stiffness at the expense of functionality, or the other way around?

FWIU the Mazda 323-based US Escort (and closely related Aussie Laser) was a better car, model-for-model, than the Euro. The US-spec Escort GT was the true hot hatch and equivalent to this one, and a blast.

Eww, why would you want a 4-window crossover with those hokey “hidden” rear door handles. Euro/JDM =/= better.

AKA the “One-Price” Escort, so named because you could get the 2-door “Sport”, the 4-door sedan or hatchback (with alloys, eventually, but no spoiler or the other stuff) or the wagon (with plastic hubcaps) for the same promotional list price. It was heavily advertised in both car and general magazines and on TV at…

It has a manual transmission AND comes in an actual color!

There’s also the matter of “go-away” prices. Let’s say a dealership gets in one of a super-rare and sought after model. They maybe can’t not list it for sale at all because of tax/insurance etc regulations but don’t want to sell it right away - they’d rather have it around as an attention-getter and for test drives to…

They fell off a cliff at that point, but there was already a sharp downward trend as the market moved on to the Next Big Thing. 

Automakers couldn’t build such a thing *now* if they wanted to. Even the original Trabant wasn’t what it would become when it first came out, in 1958. What made it a symbol of a failed system was that between then and 1989 it had exactly one update, fairly early on in the mid-’60s. 

It really should be one sub-brand. Call this one the Raptor Line.

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