Until the car market went crazy, Vehicle 2 would have been an idea place to buy one of the off-lease EV’s you could get in california for like $6-12K. There use to be tons of them with way low miles and basically zero required maintenance until 120K.

An $8500 prius is 10-15 years old with >=150K miles. What’s the risk it would need a $$$$ battery replacement? Toyota’s stated life on these is 150K miles and 10-12 years.

My first car had a 3-speed auto. I don’t want to hear any complaints about a 4-speed! One of my friends at the time managed to get his hands on an old Saab 900, also with a 3-speed auto.  We spent many high school lunches lamenting the lack of a 4th gear or a manual.

As someone who didn’t grow up in New England, using a tank of oil to heat your house always seems so 19th century to me. I guess it’s not coal, at least.

Yeah that’s the tough part -- Rivian doesn’t have 100 years of auto manufacturing experience and plants that are ready to go.  It might be a nice design, but from what I’ve read it doesn’t really offer more than a Ford F150 Lightning for performance or price.  All it’s got going for it is that it’s a new brand, which…

I don’t know... as I’ve said before in these forums, IMO the really base level MB C-class was pretty crappy: hard plastics and the like. This was in 2017, but I can’t believe that the current A-class is much better.

I still wonder if Rivian is going to be able to carve out a piece of the market for itself before it gets buried by similar electric trucks from Ford and Chevy. If Rivian can’t rapidly scale to >100k/year, then I think they’re going to be acquired or just go out of business.

I’m guessing the James Webb Telescope may have something to do with this, since it is *so* much larger, a bit further away from atmospheric interference, and also works in a number of infrared bands.

Maybe we’re both saying the same thing? ... In the end they *knew* almost no one would buy this car.

Yeah the sorta gold-ish/silver/dirty metallic beige colors sure found their way onto every Toyota product for about 15 years. Never looks clean, never looks dirty I guess...

The problem with Cadillac is that there were *decades* of automotive press that absolutely trashed them for building the luxury land yacht, combined with the fact that they had GM quality. They kept building land yachts through the 80's and 90's and drove their brand into the ground when people realized that Infinity…

Wow 45K/year would have been outselling the corvette (pre-2008-crash) by like 50%. I’d guess they would have been really lucky to sell 25k/year.

A rotary is cool and all, but it’s a bit late to the game with things like the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Bolt already getting >250 miles range at a ~$30K price point (well, pre-covid at least).

The plane door was apparently still open, so all Mike had to do was hit the button over his head and get the guy removed. Physical violence is not an acceptable response to an easily avoided (and minor*) case of verbal harassment.

The screen is there to impress your friends and keep your kids quiet on the way to / from soccer practice.

I was looking at a fully no-options model and sat in the back seat more than the front (keeping my little son entertained at the time), so I’m sure the drivers seat was a better experience.  I’m pretty certain that MB has different grades of interior materials for higher trim levels, too.

Wow the 2-tone really hides the snout. Almost hides the features so much that it reminds me of prototype car camouflage.

While it’s not offensive, it seems like they used ‘too many style points’ on the front and didn’t have any left over for the back:

+1 for braving GIMP!

It’s worth $76K because they have 2x working taillights. Those are like $20K each, and then they got the rest of the car marked up to $36K because of covid.