No, the perfect car for a teen driver is the newest thing you can afford with good tires and brakes. *This* car is both a reliability nightmare and a deathtrap compared to a similarly priced ~2010 Hyundai Elantra with 100-150K miles.

You must be talking about the 1.9L engine with 88hp and a three-speed auto. The one you drove was broken. I guarantee you can get up reasonable paved hills with 90hp and a 2400 lb curb weight.

No doubt it failed the test, I’d just like to see what happens if they try to steer out of the skid. Can the ESC regain control or is it Cars&Coffee time?

Yeah it’s too bad they cut the video before it hit the curb and rolled onto its roof.

I see the MachE side-swiped the “moose” during the test, but I’m curious if the vehicle would have sorted itself out if the driver had turned the wheel to continue on his original direction ‘straight’ down the road.

RE: NYC Taxi Drivers

If by gently used you mean 100K miles, maybe. I know someone who bought an Si new, drove it for about a year, and sold it to some used car operation for his purchase price. This was just *before* the pandemic, too!

lol... it’s the only way it can survive. Chevy is not going to design a new coupe or sedan for at least 10 yrs, I bet.

Yeah as long as they got the initial purchase bugs worked out of these, a lease would be the way to go.  It would, however, be a shame to buy one and have to get by in a loaner car for several months out of the 36 month experience.

Exactly, maybe they can just put an EV drivetrain in the Blazer, slightly change the fascia and call it the CamaroE or Camaroe.

Yeah I’ve seen them around the Bay Area a bit. They seem mostly competitive with the Mach-E, ID.4, Model3 / Y... around $50K with OK range and performance. Polestar may be a bit more expensive due to needing to pay for more options that come standard on the other brands.

Yeah if you were inside *and* had a helmet on, you might survive that. Without a helmet, I’d be concerned that it would be equivalent to being hit in the head with a bat several times once that curtain airbag deflates.

Just wait for the class action suit from everyone who has ever paid $10K for this system.

Yeah too bad they don’t offer the T8 plug-in drivetrain in the V90. They also don’t offer it in any real colors, apparently. The blue in your screenshot is pretty nice, but the Volvo website just shows white/black/gray and a dark gray-blue.

Yeah my wife is the same — I guess it’s just the “Oh no that’s what everyone’s parents drove when I was a kid! I am too stylish / young / etc. to be ‘everyone’s parent!’”  ???

I disagree. A set of round gauges with a clean font face is nearly timeless vs. something done with computer graphics. For example, look at how much map graphics have improved from a 10-15 year old Garmin / TomTom GPS to current Apple Maps or Google Maps.

Yeah: isn’t my leather car seat quite literally ‘recycling’ my hamburger wrapper? 😃

Funding R&D in ICE efficiency will do nothing to help climate change in the next 10-15 years. ICE has also hit the point of diminishing returns — it’s not like you’re going to build a 5 liter, 500hp V8 that gets 80mpg. This also does nothing to incentivize the actual consumer to drive more efficient vehicles.

This is why I really don’t like Audi / VW’s all-digital dash. All the pretty graphics that car reviewers think looks awesome 6 months before the car comes out will end up looking like 1990's era crap after about 5 years. It won’t literally change since from when it was released, but style trends change, new dashboards…