Yeah that passage struck me funny too.

I see this as moving towards vehicles like sedans from the 1940s - that actually rode much higher than those today. You actually see this happening as we get coupe-ified versions of CUVs, and cars like the Ioniq 5, Polestar2, etc that look like more traditional sedan/hatch form factors, but actually ride higher than a…

You think that a 4500lb Camry with 30 more horsepower will be faster than a 2800lb YarisGR?

They have to mall-rate them all during transit.

It’s a Jeep thing, you wouldn’t understand.

On the other hand, it charges at half the speed and has a greatly inferior charging network, is smaller, doesn’t go as far, takes almost twice the time to accelerate to 60, and doesn’t wow the neighbors like a Tesla does. They both have their places in the market.

Well, it probably won’t be designed to fail in 10 years, the bumper won’t fall off in the rain, it won’t have wipers that require you to navigate a touchscreen interface, the roof won’t fly away on your drive home from the dealer, and VW probably won’t downgrade it to a lower trim level if you sell it to someone else.

Yup. Jalopnik is paradoxically a car enthusiast site for people who hate cars. If the community at The Drive didn’t suck so badly there would be an exodus. But it really does suck that badly. 

It’s Jalopnik. The (incorrect) assumption among writers here is that no one who actually cares about driving dynamics spends more than $20k on a car. Or buys a car with a luxury badge. Or buy a two seater not called MX-5 / Miata.