And downpours, snowstorms, heat, etc. a Karmann is a lousy choice for anything except a “toy”.
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That idiot is the author...
Take the fucking Jeep. Salvage every last thing you can from it, inside, outside, etc.
And trust me when I say, this is definitely a junkyard-grade Jeep at this point.
Tranny swap into a better ZJ, and keep the cowl tag from the original as a souvenir/documentation.
Are you trying to argue that something being convenient shouldn’t factor in?
I like trains. I’d love to have a reason to use Amtrak more. But our rail infrastructure is a mess and train trips are so unpredictable timing-wise that it’s hard to argue in favor of them.
Not only speed, but also the reassurance that there will always be a place to refuel/recharge. Gas stations are ubiquitous and easily identifiable. Charging stations, not so much. Yes yes, I know about apps but are they always available and reliable?
300 miles really isn’t much. It’s a 4 hour trip down the thruway here in NY to get to Albany. Flying that distance would be silly. Same with Buffalo to Detroit. 4.5 hours by car is way better than flying.
When I was out in Wyoming last year driving those distances was your only option. Canada is largely the same way.…
Neutral: Range isn’t the issue so much as charging speed. I have a car that takes me 300 miles on a tank of gas and refills in 5 minutes. I could live with an electric that charges in 10 minutes and only gets 200 miles. Or you have to give me an electric that gets 400 miles and fills in an hour.
A car that gets 260…
I worked for awhile in Silicon Valley and the PNW doing market analysis on tech sector companies— and there’s definitely different phases to adoption.
Needless to say you are childless.
Ahh yes, why should parents have any sort of compassion or rational thought for their offspring? Why, they should be thankful we even feed the fuckers let alone take them places. Horrible Bastards...
That place was the worst for sensationalist headlines and heavy aggression. Never saw an unbiased, neutral-toned article there. Which, I suppose, wasn’t its goal.
Dude. The graph Aaron posted only tracks CO2 emissions. Not actual pollutants, but great information.
It’s not that they are dirtier it’s that there are far more of them than the gains we have made in controlling the emissions. There is about 100 million more cars on the road since 1990 in the US. And we put more miles on our cars today because of sprawl and spend more time in idle because our roads haven’t kept up…
“That interior though”
That everyone loves? I’d take the Ram interior over any other. As well as the infotainment. The UConnect is so much more user friendly.
Self driving trucks may ultimately be what leads us towards the driverless car revolution. It will start with point to point on certain highways, with driver’s getting in the cabs for complex highways and cities. Then it will move to all driverless, except for cities. It is simply much easier to program a vehicle…