Totally agree -- it’s absolutely fine transportation. On the topic of unsafe older cars, I sometimes wonder why my parents were OK with the econobox I drove around as a teenager! That being said, it was probably safer than a rollover-prone jeep of the same era.

You can buy a base Mach-E with like 220 miles of range for $5K under MSRP, but the best deal I see online for a ~300 mile version is still $56K. This is competing with a $50K Model Y. The Ford was overpriced and still not a great deal...

It’s a 4-seat convertible — seems like a good option if you got kids until you read the latest crash test results for rear seat passengers!

• How hard is it to remove the roof to get an convertible experience?  Is there a place for the roof panels when you’ve got some travel bags in the back?
  

If your primary goal is to not blend in and have a good highway commute, the Bronco seems like a horrible idea. Ford even makes the Bronco Sport to imitate the look of the Bronco, making the vehicle even less unique.

TL/DR- Racism really seems like a lot of unnecessary work and you’d have to be an idiot to do it.

The state of Texas requires that peace officers have at least either a high school diploma, GED or were honorably discharged from the military after at least 24 months of active-duty service.

I got a Bolt pre-pandemic, and it works great for my commute. (Didn’t even burn down my house with a battery fire!) The base Bolt was available (in CA) for ~$22K after incentives back then. Chevy did drop the bolt, but the Equinox is coming out this year. I think people will be a lot more tolerant of the appearance of…

Isn’t that $7500 tax credit available for *every* EV when leased? That puts all the $40K vehicles down below $35K, if you’re willing to wrangle a lease. I don’t love leasing, but I’ve done it before when the $$$ makes sense.

I guess at some level hydrogen fuels were built on the premise that we could eventually gain nearly limitless clean energy from nuclear (fusion) or some other special hydrogen generating nuclear fission plants. Fusion always seems to be 10-20 years away, and fission is just too expensive to build for some reason or…

I’m sure you know this, but...

Lowered pickups look cool, which defeats the Bigger and Tougher image that is built into modern american pickups. How are you going to fantasize about owning the woke libs during a future insurrection when you can’t even drive over a body???

Sure, I know it’s a reliable Toyota and it’s got a decent 0-60 time, but putting a bunch of aero-trim on a Camry makes it about as cool as one of these:

Yeah this is way cooler than the Camry (!??!) that made the list.

Yeah you’d hope people buying a $500K car would laugh at the chance of selling it for a $60K profit — it’s just not worth their time being bothered with something like that. I’d guess it’s more likely that there are people spending like >25% of their net worth on the car for a few Tik Tok Videos or some other BS…

Hopefully we can avoid the 2-3 days of ashfall this year...

I’m sure the 19's will be cheaper in the long run:  $1k to replace a bent wheel, frequent 22" tire replacement, and additional brake wear.

Range Rover Sport ... it’s a steal; the dealer is asking just $13,500.

Backpage was also found guilty of sex trafficking, so it wasn’t just a bit of alt-right bias that managed to ban it. (I know an ACLU-affiliated lawyer who was working on an anti-backpage case several years ago related to trafficking women.)