I don’t love the Escalade as a vehicle, but this one looks miles better than the current gas Escalade and Hummer EV.

The OT also becomes a massive reward you can allocate to your friends to sit around watching TV or playing with their phone.

Come on, you know ‘kids theses days’ get all the connection they need by watching TikTok influencers while some random Netflix show is streaming in the background. 😁

1. I really dislike those aftermarket low profile wheels on that photo

Used Continentals are easily available for ~$30K, and you can even find the Black Label editions for close to $40K. It would be a way better choice for a ‘comfortable for long trips’ vehicle than the Land Cruiser that the author is suggesting.

Don’t worry — they killed the 6MT years ago, probably about 2 days after all the car sites published an article saying, “New G70 from Genesis offers a 6MT!!!”  (Same as the $40K Ford Lightning!!!WTFBBQ!!! articles that all reported on a truck that quickly ended up with a base price of $52k)

Lexus will have a better trade-in value in 3 yrs and likely last >200k miles with basic maintenance. BMW will be traded in 3 yrs at maybe $40K to avoid the >$5k/year average maintenance bills.

lol, just trying to stir up the ant hill!  😁

This guy seems to be interested in skiing. He should:

I’m guessing you wouldn’t pay *more* to rent one vs. a gas vehicle, then, like the author?

You *reserved* a Tesla, but “would love nothing more” than not getting it?  I can’t wait for your upcoming article about the hopelessness and despair of driving electric vehicles in the midwest. 

Revoking licenses doesn’t keep habitual speeders, drunk drivers, etc off the road. People just keep driving anyway.

The Average American drives 13,500 miles/year. Average commute per year is like 10,500. That’s less than 300 miles/month of non-commute driving, most of which is accounted for by running local errands. No doubt a subset of americans make monthly long trips of 300-400 miles, but Average American does not.

This car is a lot more palatable at the base price (if it was available):

My main concern with Subaru EV-ing a Crosstrek is that they’d end up with a $65K vehicle that competes with a Model Y, but with slightly less range. Tesla does have really efficient electric motors, and has been able to cut costs quite well.

I’m just replying to that part where you’re saying that gas stations do not exist between cities in the midwest:

True. Fly Frontier for a Good Time: get groped at security and then punched in the crotch.

Yeah a Chinese car that has equivalent performance (0-60, efficiency, crash, comfort,etc) then they might save some on the labor, but this will be at most 10% of the cars price. There won’t be a Chinese clone of this $50k Blazer magically available for $25K unless they sell at a loss.

Average commute distance in the US is 41 miles/day. It’s not much more than that in TX. If you have to drive 300 miles on a regular basis a ‘commuting’ or shopping trip, then you’re like a <1% outlier.

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