Horses for courses.

Saturn Ion Redline.

It’s been my experience that:

If they knew how to build cars that were as strong as the motors, they would be called General Automobiles.

Diesel F-150 Crew Cab XLT. 28+ MPG and it can tow 7k. Easy enough. Plus they’re borderline affordable at $30-35k.

Many are without gas right now.

This is filtered just to non-Tesla CSS or SAE Lvl 2 chargers. Tampa is the 566. Sure there’s some 1-4s on the map, but there’s also 100+ in a few spots. You’ll get out no problem, especially if you’re charged at home to start.

Do the same statement with gas stations running out of gas.

There’s not many “New for 24" small SUVs from US brands. The Bronco Sport is a Top Pick, for example, just not a 2024 Top Pick. In 2022-23 it was. The difference is in 2023 they added nighttime pedestrian collision prevention to the criteria and many not-new vehicles haven’t been tested for the yet, so they’re…

I recognize there are a million considerations before “hurricane evacuation” when shopping for cars, but this is one of those times where a 300+ mile range EV and a home charger really stand out as a good option. If only there weren’t decades of political rhetoric calling them stupid and not good in emergency…

Nah, it’s been building since the Yuppies stopped buying a 3-series and started buying a Ford Explorer. Add Firestone tire debacle making Explorer buyers free-agents and you have a huge menu of milquetoast SUVs to choose from.

I’ve always had a soft-spot for the Nissan Pulsar GTI-R.

Syphilis. It's syphilis. 

Base XL EcoBoost is $48k And most are $51k. If you’re not doing more than lights and comms, They’re around $60k. Towing and other things can be additional needs, but it’s well below the $150k they spent on this stupidity and was modified to actually be a police vehicle prior to sale.

When they bought the Model S for LAPD, maybe.

As a person who grew up among the factories in Michigan that saw electronics move to Mexico and car production move to Canada and Mexico after NAFTA and hearing how that was good because we are and want a service-based economy. To know hear a generation that talked that up, and taught it in business schools and…

Got phenomenally drunk and peed all over his gear while camping, and then threw it in my car without recognizing how much pee was actually in one of the bags.

The 2022-23 are the ones worth it. The 2021 and older had the 8-speed and less HP. Still good, but 0-60 in the 6s. 2022-23 get the Golf R engine and 7-speed DSG, it brings it to 300-hp and 0-60 in 4.6.

He makes pretty cars. That’s pretty much it.

When all else fails, LS swap.