Obvious solution: Just make these mandatory on all cars.
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Flex is the perfect answer, really nothing to discuss here anymore.
The weird rear window is laughable, otherwise, the 3 has a lot Jalopniks have been asking for for years: Low beltline, large greenhouse, reasonable-ish sized wheels.
How do I give more than one star?
Daewoo of Uzbekistan made this car until 2-3 years ago. Might play well with a Central Asian audience.
Yes, but a Jeep aficionado just doesn’t get to jerk upwards...it will come down again, you know.
But...how much? Also, given that Aston Martin has build basically the same car forever now, I really thought they would have been a bit more reliable.
Meanwhile in Norway, the Stinger - starting at 87,000 $ for the cheapest version - loses 30% of its value in the first year. I love that Kia makes this car, but they must have known that this is a loss generator for everyone involved.
I found some articles on the topic that confirmed my initial decision to ignore those issues. The lack of a temperature control unit seems to have broken batteries in desert-like climate conditions. I live in a very temperate area right next to the sea, which takes the edge of temperature variations anyway. Also, the…
[Citation needed], but, yes, I'm off to Google. Only thing I can remember are the cooling issues, but that wasn't the biggest challenge here in Norway. Also, after seven years in the hands of a electric engineer, I'd figure all recalls etc. have been done.
Whut? This car has made it just fine for 70k kms. And of the 200000 Leafs sold worldwide, only about 5 need major battery service or replacement every year.
How reliable is the range prediction? We just bought a 7 year old Leaf with the 24 kwh battery. Living in a mountaineous area, the range prediction is utterly confused all the time. Using fivefold of expected range is...common.
Super low octane fuel is still available in the CIS. Dunno if this is of interest to you:
Absolutely perfect article! These people should receive proper acclaim in their lifetime. Very hard to grasp how hard it must have been to gather the ressources and get these cars on the road back then. All of them are beacons of human ingenuity and ressourcefulness.
That’s why you buy slow cars at the bottom of their depreciation curve. Once they’re an irrecognizable, steaming pile of crap, you shout “NEXT” and when you’ve done that four times over six years, you’re still below that 18k$ entry ticket.
Most valid point of them all. Democracies prevailed over a surveillance based flavour of socialism and, for a time in the 90's, everybody thought: Never again!
The Lincoln Mkz seems a bit out of place. Any logical explanation for why this model is so popular in a sea of Asian vehicles?
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Aren’t Bentley buyers conservative enough to present a silent outcry of disgust over this breach of continous tradition? Or is Bentley's entire customer base the blingeliding new rich, while old money clings on to Land Rovers, Landcruisers and Mercedes wagons?