Oh yeah, I forgot about this part... You know what DOES qualify? Vehicles like the Jeep’s 4xe trims of the Grand Cherokee and Wrangler.

This proposal had very little to do with subsidizing EVs, and a lot more to do with manufacturing. If they cared about EV adoption at all, there wouldn’t be so many restrictions.

Mixed feelings on the new proposal... I think it ended up being more about manufacturing in North America than boosting EV adoption by consumers. It also does this very aggressively, which is going to result in a lot of vehicles only being eligible for partial credits.

It almost sounds like Toto is asking the FIA to investigate his own team’s engineering work then, doesn’t it?

That seems to be the idea for most companies. Tesla seems to be the only company that refuses to pass along savings to consumers. No matter how many revolutionary cost saving manufacturing methods they employ, their prices increase as volume increases.

Over the last two years (50,000 miles), my overall average is 25.6mpg.

LOL.

People want a car that could look spicy, but it has to do it without utilizing a multitude of fake vents.

I just wish my car had the ability to achieve its EPA rated fuel economy...

That’s because the one in that picture was the original prototype, before changes were made for the production car!

Regardless of everyone’s thoughts on Tesla, I think it’d be hard not to say the Model S or Model 3. These two cars changed the way consumers felt about electric cars, and in many ways, even changed the way other manufacturers think about cars.

To a singular office, I had a choice...

I don’t know if it was really one of the worst things Honda made, but the Honda Ridgeline must be in contention for one of the ugliest.

“The U.S. economy is faring pretty well by just about every traditional measure”

It wasn’t until I was about 12 or 13, but my father had purchased a 1979 Pontiac TransAm. Prior to that, he had his fair share of heavily customized pickup trucks... But the Pontiac is what got me into cars.

Right. And supply chain issues are creating and worsening scale issues.

Seems to work the exact opposite at some notable manufacturers.

Mixed feelings on this...

The Rivian R1T ticks nearly every single box for me.

Less than two years ago, I took my first engineering job out of college. I was (and still am) commuting about 45 minutes to get to work. This job is located about a half hour northwest of NYC. I started out just above $24/hr then.