I think it’ll really depend on use cases. If you’ve got a hybrid drivetrain (instead of just a ICE generator charging your batteries), in theory, you’ve got all the maintenance issues of a ICE drivetrain and the potential battery issues of an electric one.

Anyone who spends Model S money on a “performance” Model 3 is a fool.

The real killer in that line is that it seems highly likely the “source” doesn’t know that a phobia means that the fear is both extreme and irrational. It’s like saying “they don’t hire people who are grossly incompetent, and they’re really cracking down on gross negligence, too.”

The mindset’s more like “Clearly, the cold is way worse because I have the cold and someone else has flesh eating bacteria.”

You’re right - it’ll be about money in and money out. I’d say that they’d look a lot harder at making 2 sets of cars if they had to market a next generation with decreased performance across any real metric, but then again, who knows?

Isn’t that proof of the opposite point? That if you want a Ram truck, it’ll be the same truck in CA as it would in TX, but CA gets compliance cars that the rest of the country doesn’t to meet standards.

Costco’s car buying service (or USAA’s) are one way out of it, since the negotiation is essentially done already. It’s not sticker price, but it’s a price that the buyer can be confident is fair. (TrueCar is probably also helping in this regard.)

Wait, I didn’t know you could get Tecmo Bowl on iPad!

That’s certainly a reasonable argument, but the fact is that there isn’t a sports league in the world where some teams aren’t bigger draws than others. You can’t tell me that a seeing the Cardinals play Jacksonville in the Super Bowl would get the same ratings as say, the Cowboys playing the Pats.

Yeah, but most of Canada tunes in to see anyone lift the Cup. I’m not 100% sure that Winnipeg in the final is a bigger draw than say, seeing Crosby hoist the cup again would have been to a lot of fans in Canada.

Oh, also: On why I don’t think Bush is at the absolute bottom of the list:

Andrew Johnson: Ensured that newly-freed blacks would be a permanent underclass in the south through segregation. It wasn’t until the Civil Rights a century later that blacks had many of the rights in practice that they were guaranteed after the Civil War; even then, Black Lives Matter show that the job’s still not…

But those were men.

Bush was, all in all, a bad president, but I don’t think he was the worst (or one of the worst, really). He was at the low-end of the bell curve, to be sure, but he was at least on the bell curve. That’s a huge contrast to the situation we’re in now.

Sorry, why’s it worrisome that Ford would be able to bring sedans back if they wanted?

I dunno, the Ford EcoSport is a $12k car, with it’s little 3-cyl engine and made-in-India quality.

I mean, to Honda’s credit, they’re really good at maximizing interior volume (the Fit cribs the Element in some ways - that thing was ugly, but man was it good for being able to shove stuff in).

It is fair to say, though, that during the time it owned Land Rover, it had Ford designers shamelessly crib design notes from their British coworkers.

And on top of that, a lot of CUVs feel, at least to me, like they’re a size bigger than a sedan on the same platform, even if the interior volumes are roughly the same between a CUV and a comparable hatchback.

They’re already kind of sort of doing that, but the issue is that some of those cars suck. The EcoSport is actually brought over from India, which is why it’s the only major-manufacturer vehicle I can think of that comes with a 3 cyl engine. It puts out 123 horses and gets the same combined MPG as the top-trim Kia…