Yeah, I watch local auctions for hidden treasures, and I would be so disheartened if something like this showed up and went nationwide. But I am also glad to see things like this from all over, so I couldn’t be too bummed.

We made a custom exhaust tip for my Citation. It was cheaper and faster than finding a standard one, but it was very shiny chrome and ridiculous. That’s what happens when you are around commercial truck drivers, I guess.

the Citation was plagued with quality issues and reliability woes.

In-dash DVD player. An early one, with a tiny, ill-proportioned screen. The car had to be running with the parking brake on to use it, and I was in an Explorer. Really wasteful way to watch a movie you can’t even enjoy. I watched approximately 1 minute of a movie to try it and never put a DVD in again.

they’re coming back with “teeth and a backbone.”

Toyota tax credit is running out. Subaru still has most of theirs to go. Next year’s sales might look different as a result.

I’d say they utilized their share very strategically. Toyota is the leader in plug-in hybrids, partially because they focused on that for the entire duration of their tax credits. There’s still a strong market for those, so they positioned themselves to take advantage.

I always keep an air compressor in the car despite there being free air at a lot of gas stations. It is often broken down, plus I don’t want to go to a gas station every time I want to air up a tire.

Beyond availability and the market right now, they do indeed work off of a model of getting people approved for terrible financing deals. From the Carvana website:

Like you, I might have sold to them if I could have gotten what I wanted at the time.

Not the best, but the one that caught my attention: saw an Audi (that just had to get in front of me, even though she wasn’t going faster than me after that) with multicolored headlight lenses, linked hearts replacing the Audi logo, some decorative spikes that looked a little like small fin antennae, and a window…

1. Why can’t you get the PHEV version with a middle bench seat?

Thanks for the info. As much as I’d prefer those 17" wheels, the X-Line sounds good enough for me, then.

And is the X-Line just missing the tires and locking rear diff, then? And the drive modes?

If you get to try the X-Pro and X-Line, I’d be interested in how much of a joke each one’s “off-road” capabilities are. I know I won’t be rock crawling with a Sportage, but I’d like to know if it’s gonna struggle in a slightly muddy forest service road.

When we are talking about 85-95% reduction in those particles, it would have to reduce fuel efficiency a LOT to not help. Besides, according to the article, “they allow modern cars to safely use direct fuel injection, which delivers better performance and gas mileage.”

I’d really like to know your thoughts on the direct comparison of the Hyundai/Kia siblings. Especially in terms of comfort, since I suspect performance is going to be roughly comparable. Also in terms of controls/usability, since so many electrics have decided controls are blasé.

Let us know when you start selling those low-end car luxury fobs. I am very interested.

Next thing you know, these guys are gonna try to get surgical shine jobs and live at the edges of society.

Yeah, if it works, it would be great. 10 months a year, I have ~100 mile range (or less, really), and each time I need more range, I buy a month of full range. It would be great. And I know there are enough people who would always want enough range to be safe (but rarely need it) that would probably pay the…