Nope, the Promaster is NOT an off-roader by any stretch of the imagination. I’ve taken mine all over the place, including lots of pretty rugged forest service roads. It has a fair amount of ground clearance compared to, say, an AWD Sienna minivan (another vehicle I used to own), but between the limited traction you…

I would happily pay $50 to be able to turn the stop/start feature off, and have it stay off.

As an EV driver the answer is really simple. Don’t by a Leaf. The lack of thermal regulation on them causes massive degradation of the battery and they’re causing unnecessary concern about other EVs because Nissan is awful at EVs. I drive a Chevy Bolt. There’s a guy out there who has well over 100,000+ miles on his,…

WTH is with this perception that truck buyers mostly consist of this asshole group that people in the comments always reference? I’m a pretty well traveled guy and I live where the greatest % of the populace drives pickups and I’m here to tell you the brodozer, soot spewing crowd is a tiny sliver of pickup buyers.…

Look at you doing more journalistic research than the entire Jalopnik team 

My top level comment was directed at someone like you. Please read it and understand you are part of the reason why we cannot have alternatives to crossover SUVs at the moment.

So to answer your question, me. I would. I’d take it on every residential, surface road, state road, and county road around me. It’ll be just…

I need to make sure that everyone understands the reason we don’t have things like the Hong Guan Mini is entirely political and social, not technical or economic. It would be literally illegal to build similar low-cost cars here because our transportation laws metastasized in the 1950s to 1960s to center around the…

This exactly. Tacking on a destination as a line item feels shitty to the consumer and also is super unfair because it’s regional. Just average it out across the MSRP and be done with it.

If Tesla accomplishes nothing else, I hope they break the grip of the mega dealers on car sales.

Adding middlemen does not add value, unfortunately they do add political contributions.

2nd gear: some 2-4% inflation for a couple of years is good, actually. Specifically re: used car prices this is just old school supply/demand. Also, not mentioned i dont think is that repo’s are down which is curtailing a common source for used cars.

Intel had already announced a few weeks ago that they were going to be investing billions in new fabs as well as expanding what they already have in the US.

1st gear: I’ll believe the US will have no choice but to follow the whims of Europe and Asia right after we adopt the metric system.

1st and 2nd Gear: Kinda surprised one of the gears today wasn’t the oil industry’s wild Wednesday. Exxon’s board got its ass kicked by a relatively tiny fund, Shell lost hard in court in a ruling other state courts are likely to follow, and Chevron’s own shareholders told it to get its shit together and cut its Scope…

Now ... if only this would happen to every other coal-rolling assclown out there.

Even if Tesla was doing shady stuff with that copper, wouldn’t a better response would be to say that some of the copper is being shipped to another site or Factory, pat the dude on the back, tell him he’s doing a good job and be done with it? 

I’m very conflicted on Lucid. I love the idea of 400+mi of range in a high-performance non-tesla sedan, and the car is beautiful. However, they sold a majority share to the Saudi Government, and quite frankly I do not wish to give money to people who kill opposition journalists and oppress women, not to mention their…

Ford and Toyota are both taking a very measured approach to EVs. We haven’t been talking about there being lithium or other material shortages on the horizon that make the chip shortage look mild, but they’re there. Having ICE units to move without running afoul of optimistic projections is a great insurance policy.

A lot of people bought sedans to commute in and almost never had anyone in the back. I’m guessing they didn’t miss this much. 

I’ve read that this was done to save about an inch of door card thickness. This allowed three adults to “comfortably” sit in the back seat, and losing ~2" of seat width would make this less likely.

This is the correct take. For instance, I would expect that, if everyone started buying pet alligators, that the annual number of casualties involving large predatory reptiles would rise drastically.