Christ on a cracker, we’ve moved from manual transmissions are more enjoyable to saying they’re an actual active safety feature??? And cars become more safe when you make them less safe? When I was 17 I drove a manual transmission Geo Prism. That car had no features, and I still blasted loud music while eating tacos…
Neutral: Safety standards save lives, but they also make cars more expensive.
That’s the joke.
This quirky little unicorn that is the Mini Clubman ALL4 will be hitting the American market in April of this year, offering AWD capability in a comfortable and practical wagon format, with the same options as the FWD Clubman of either a 3-cylinder or 4-cylinder turbocharged engine offering 134 hp or 189 hp…
This car hits all the buttons! AWD manual wagon! Aaaaa! I am waiting for the new Countryman to make a decision, since an AWD manual suv is also something which hits a few buttons and may have more space which is wife mandated these days.
I can’t take any literature seriously when it’s in a sheet protector.
Agreed, and my wife and I bought a 2011 Jetta Sportwagen for the very same reasons. As luck would have it, we ended up selling it and another car in order to purchase a CPO Tesla Model S P85 in June of last year, about a month before the emissions scandal became known. That was one of the rare times when timing…
Well, lying to the government is at least perjury.... which does carry a fine and a jail sentence.
You’re forgetting that most EV charging happens at night, when the grid is usually way over capacity and wasting tons of electricity.
You aren’t entirely correct, it depends where you live:
Some of the worst in the world. Its a geographic issue mostly but there are several key thing that can be done to limit the problems and Vocs and Nox are high on the list (wood burning, road salt dust and industrial processes are still the biggest chunks though)
Jesus fucking christ for the last time the “rare” in rare earth minerals DOES NOT RELATE TO HOW MUCH OF IT THERE IS ON EARTH. It references the fact that they typically occur in low concentrations or as a bound element in other ores. This makes it rare in the sense that it’s hard to economically produce the stuff, not…
The facts are still on the side of electrified transportation, even in a full-life cycle analysis. Environmental groups are not a monolith, and though they may not conform to your world view, many employ lots of thorough evaluation of net costs/impacts. In the US, the net benefits are a function of the regional power…
Agreed. They have my complete support. It’s nice and refreshing that they care all tbe time and not just when it makes them look cool. They have literally put their moneywhere their mouth is (are).
I can relate to this, where I live winter time smog is a serious issue and I live and breath this stuff and so picking a TDI up was always a nice reminder in my mind that on bad smog days the Tier II bin 5 standards I thought it was adhering to were doing a big part to limit smog forming Vocs and Nox. When we found…
This old trope of “the long tailpipe” has been disproved many times over. As for overlooking facts, you can check them yourself courtesy of the DOE (http://www.afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/elect…). And with continued displacement of coal as our primary source of generation fuel, the environmental case for switching to EVs…
Sometimes I think that people that are uneducated enough to think that a vehicle with an internal combustion engine will not produce harmful emissions should allow said vehicle to idle in their garage for 30 minutes and report back on their findings.
Tennis has always been a racket.
To be fair, they tried to use Doug’s Land Rover first but the check engine light went on as soon as he pulled out of the driveway.
Moab, Utah is like a painting you can drive though. And hey, a Jeep Wrangler pickup like this one might be a lot easier to buy a year from today! [Image: Andrew P. Collins]
