That vehicle is almost certainly stretched, right? Goodbye crash safety!! WCC might be able to put down a nice coat of paint and have the doors close reliably in their garage, but I’m guessing that thing will fold like an accordion if it gets hit. If I was anywhere near that wealthy I would err on the side of safety…

Don’t forget your Exxon credit card. 

I assume the ‘truck things’ in the original comment must be referring to sitting up really high, riding solo to your office job, and being a $75k leather-wrapped status symbol.

Yeah I agree, unfortunately acceleration ‘comes for free’ on lots of EV designs.

Money == speech, so it’s not a bribe; it’s just a conversation.

Makes sense, but the vast majority of people have never been on a liter bike or do much sporty with their car other than hit the gas hard.

Not a single person can give me a compelling reason to own an EV that doesn’t include 1. responsibility to our planet, 2. not going to the gas station, 3. hauling kids around...

Yeah I feel the same when I point out cars to family, sometimes.  I did happen to see one of these *THIS MORNING* so I guess it’s my lucky day or something??

I bet you can find a Buick Cascada with like 75k miles for around $14-15k. It’s FWD and should be relatively cheap to repair. It’ll have crap resale value, but at least it looks better than the Solara.  On the plus side -- no one will know what it is.  When is the last time *you* saw one of these?

With enough negative press, the camera will be improved. If people were focused on checking camera performance at night during a test drive, GM would fix it ASAP.

The government also needs to get on the ball by mandating that the image quality of these cameras be the highest level possible, with or without proper lighting.

Yeah after inhaling chemtrails for a few years people will believe in literally any conspiracy. 

Does *anyone* offroad with these vehicles, or is it just to make them look cool to people who take them grocery shopping?

I haven’t looked at Masonry’s site for a long time. How can this guy care about his brand at all — they even sell Masonry golf carts now!

I’d say there are two big strikes against this vehicle:

I don’t think that’s a big improvement vs. a (new) GTI. The Countryman has a smaller trunk, but it does have more volume when the rear seat is folded. Unfortunately a good chunk of the Countryman’s extra volume is also vertical, since it’s 4" taller than the GTI and they are within 1" of the same overall length.

“Victim Blaming” is a pretty loaded phrase to use when discussing a car accident since it’s frequently used for things like sexual assault, BUT at least you didn’t call me a Tesla Stan or Elon Worshiper.

I use to live in Silicon Valley (and I’m happy to have left!) and the ‘dump tesla’ trend has been happening for YEARS now —I had friends calling the Model S the “Camry of Palo Alto” before the Model 3 was even released. After a couple years, the Model 3 became so cheap that it was basically an anti-status symbol for…

At this price the interior should be absolutely restored like-new, including the seat fabric, original radio, no idiotic cell phone, and an undamaged center console.

This is also a public service announcement that you should not let a 70-yr-old grandmother drive a 400-500hp car (with a 0-60 time of ~4 seconds) unless she knows what she’s doing!