First of all, a Subaru “crossover” is definitely not cool. Secondly, no matter how cool the parents think they are, they can’t fit a family of 2 adults and 4 children into any current Subaru (frankly, if the kids are young enough, you can’t fit a family of 5 into ANY current Subaru- car seats). Oh, and when the kids…

It’s marketing and it works on women too, sadly. They view an crossover as more versatile and safer and many don’t want the stigma of owning a van themselves, feeling it labels them as “just” a mom. I loved my parents CHRYSLER (grand?) Caravan. The best of all the K cars.

Holy crap, that’s actually really good looking. I know it’s going to get flack, because there has never been a new car debut in the past 5 years without half the population hating it, but it’s really good looking. The 200-like front end actually works and makes it look almost like a 200-based wagon or crossover (I…

Isn’t it FCA’s first hybrid since the Aspen?

Well, what have we here? Third fog light, or some sort of HD camera/collision avoidance system?

Love the plug in hybrid addition, I look forward to other manfacturer’s bringing those drivetrains to their minivans. Love the redesign too.

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I get it, Americans are, by in large, some of the most self-centered, self-serving, stupid, want their cake-and-eat-it too, consumerist me me me fuckers. They’re too dumb to have any sense of the past history, even recent history, I’m sure ask the average SUV buyer what happened in the news last year, last week,…

Make a hybrid or EV version of the Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Exactly what I'm thinking.. Tax the hell out of gas and use it to fix this broken country.. And invest in clean energy.. Downside, if everyone goes 100% renewables, there won't be any profit left for greedy companies.. So I guess it won't happen..

There was a report many many years ago now that Chrysler/Jeep were developing a Hybrid Electric Wrangler. I would buy that. Same if Subaru came out with a Hybrid Electric Forester. I want to buy a Hybrid electic but I want to keep my Compact SUV, why is this so hard?

How Hard? Not particularly.

We don’t need a whole lot of EVs right now, because most people won’t be willing to take the risk of a pure EV. We need more plug-in hybrids/EREVs ala Volt where there is little risk to the consumer (no range fears), but a massive reduction in fuel consumption. Right now the EREV options are extremely limited, and…

I don’t know what the answer is here, for regulators or for automakers. If gas shoots up to $6 a gallon, that might take care of the problem, but no consumer wants that to happen.

2) If you think of the hybrid SUV like a large Chevy Volt, you could make it work. I'd use a small diesel generator to charge the batteries. A constant rate generator is far more efficient than an engine. You had something the size of a Yukon XL with a large battery pack and a large fuel tank, I wonder what the range…

It’s not hard at all. The problem is you’d have to trade some of the trucks payload and towing capacity for battery capacity.

Didn’t Elon Musk say that was his next target after the model 3? an F150 competitor?

I wonder this all the time too. If you made it badass enough, truck buyers would go for it. Hell, that might even replace diesel eventually.

Stop with the crazy talk. EVs are still an extremely small portion of the total number of cars out there. People who are buying them are buying them because they are good vehicles for many reasons. In fact, for around town errands and such, it is AWESOME to go for months without putting gas in my Volt. Also, for a…

The only way to do it would be for the government to get in on the demand side instead of the supply side by some form of tax. It could either be a gas tax or a guzzler style one that would hit inefficient cars harder. I’m not all that keen on that either but at least it makes more sense than forcing manufacturers to…