With the death of the Maxima i assumed that the Altima would rise in the ranks leaving the Versa as the go to car for girlfriends to let their boyfriends drive around while they are at work. 

Mediocre entry level SUV’s are figuring out how not to completely suck, the redone Trax was a huge leap over it’s predecessor and so is this Kicks. This looks like a solid offering, not going to get a pulse racing but looks like a fairly comfortable and economical way to get around. Main thing I don’t like are the…

And then running them even more poorly. The push to take Jeep way upmarket was blatantly bad, adding some high-end was fine but doing so while axing out 2/3 of the bottom models was dumb (and the 1 left is getting pretty long in the tooth). And they have let the Wrangler get out of hand, the starting price is too high…

Also, this shit is hilarious

Is it for sale yet? Apparently so, but if I (a person with not much better to do all day than read about cars on the internets) didn’t know, I’m certain the general public has no idea.

“Stellantis said it took exception to the letter and that it doesn’t believe public personal attacks are the most effective way to solve problems.”

There are a lot of candidates for this list, but I’m going with one of the more attainable ones.

It’s both knowing and having confidence that the knowing is right. I expect a bunch of people know, but are nervous about getting it wrong and so they won’t. Their brains just black out over the fear of blowing up the battery and they can’t come back to thinking about how simple it really is.

Cruz would short out the battery, set the car on fire, then blame his daughter for distracting him.

All credit for jumping in and getting it done. She is using a jump start pack it appears which is only one step above plugging in a phone as far as the banana level goes but you do have to know what to do and she clearly did. 

A lot of these vehicles are overpriced for what you get, the Hornet is a neat little car but the MSRP is at least $5K too high to start off and rapidly goes off the rails, the PHEV is just insanely priced for what you get.

I remember that episode. What stood out in my mind the most was how much Clarkson raved about the car’s acceleration. The impression he left us with was “this’ll be super awesome once the charging infrastructure is in place, also you probably shouldn’t floor it everywhere you go, but that’s true anyway, and damn, it…

Yeah this always made sense to me. I do agree it was probably staged with the expectation that “we’re just not going to plan around it running out of charge and make that the downside” because at the time, that was indeed a HUGE downside!

Chris Harris is one of the few people that I might have actually held my nose and listened to a Rogan episode to hear speak in an informal setting. But knowing there is still a bunch of Tesla shilling going on by Rogan? Blech, hard pass.

“In the review, Clarkson commented on the poor range of the car, which lasted just 55 miles on a race track, and claimed that it took an eye-watering 16 hours to top the battery up once again.”

It’s real weird to for two people to confidently pontificate about an event that happened a decade and a half ago, which neither of them witnessed, on a TV show that neither of them were involved with at the time.

This has a 11-12 cu ft trunk. That’s tiny. I wanted to like these so much, but 228-hp and a 12 cu-ft trunk were not enough to be a daily that costs $35k.

Sorry, as a reluctant crossover owner, I have to dispute the “as practical,” when it should be “almost as practical.” Sedans don’t handle irregularly shaped cargo as well as wagony things, and modern North American tow ratings are asinine. Basically, my kingdom for a GTI wagon and Euro tow ratings.

I’m not talking about the reasons people are selling, I’m talking about the reasons the values are so low. The buyers determine the price, not the sellers.
People sell cars for lots of reasons. I actually know exactly why the person who sold me my car sold it, its because he wanted the model X. In the end, he…

My wife has 2,981 miles on her BMW eDrive 40i (or whatever the hell it is called). After down payment, monthly payments, and insurance increase, she is paying $4.28 to drive a mile. I have great solar, so fuel is free.
Still, $4.28/mile..... Since December.
I hate this thing. It is not bankrupting us, as we do okay, but…