They’re getting pricey for a reason (among them: it’s got a built-in bed from the factory). Honestly, no matter how old or ugly (and boy howdy they are), Elements are absolute gems of car camping, with friends, dogs, and kids alike, for reasons too numerous to list...

A ‘65 Valiant 2-door was my first car in ‘88, so here’s some tips:

Hint.

Ahead of its time? AMC Eagle? What could possibly explain that...?

You just named a few of the cars I helped market and, yeah, the Mazda is the absolute last one I’d buy (the Mitsu i was actually kinda fun! Superlight, mid-engine, had some charisma, etc.).

Yup. This is for compliance and nothing else.

I used to work with their product planners at HQ — Their hybrid tech (IMA) was a failure for ages and the money they pumped into developing hydrogen was flushed, repeatedly.

Buns are round, smarty. Now, what shape is the space available for an EV swap in a V8-powered car? Go on, think about it...

If anyone reading this follows any cops on Facebook, you know just how racist, how stupid, and how expected this kind of behavior has become among them and all their stupid buddies.

It’s a battery chassis. As in, you drop in a complete engine-and-25kwh battery system in one “block” that already suits the vehicle’s existing powertrain space (the remaining batteries are placed elsewhere).

Amen. I suspect a lot of auto-equipped classics may rise in value as EV conversions and kits become simpler, if not standardized.

Call me when you have an engine-shaped battery pack. No, seriously, please do. The sooner I can swap my cars into EV’s with a bolt-in, the better.

Uh, no. These cars were either not worth much for years or VERY limited in appeal for the very reasons he raises. It wasn’t “kids”, it was a lot of my own childhood neighborhood’s WW2 veterans and those who survived the war who made these cars unpopular if not “non grata” in the ensuing decades.

Massive history fail. See that little red star there? Yeah....

Not even slightly true — That connection is both known and loathed with countless pieces and genres of artifice. What is true was that a lot of art with odious connections to fascism was merely stolen or owned by Nazis, not produced by or to honor Naziism.

Having been creating ads and comms for car companies for 20 years, I think the “personal responsibility” takes are missing a few things:

Totally agree. As a now *former* longtime BMW buyer — including one of Frank’s X5's — I just can’t get myself to buy another. Trying to get my head around why these random shapes are thrown together, why the proportions are so odd, or why the grilles are so enormous (in a time when the functional need is so little)…

This. And why none of us should sympathize with businesses with no staff offering ungodly poor service right now.

“This filth? Hold on, I’ll brew you a better one...”

The funny thing is, for those who know, the Camaro V6 conversion makes perfect sense for just about every mildly-underpowered car. The “why” question gets answered instantly by the phenomenal horsepower/weight/size of the LFX.