I find the lack of frunk disturbing.

I also have one. I got it mostly for durability and the cool factor. Has a nice weight to it that traditional rings don’t. Also it’s fun to make loud noises by tapping it on things.

You are describing the CX-60, which is sold outside North America. It is a shorter 2-row that shares the same RWD platform as the CX-90. Why Mazda chose to badge-engineer the CX-70 into existence is beyond me. Mazda didn’t get where they are through incompetence, so there must have been a solid business reason that we…

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Yes, I was speaking specifically about the US market.

IIRC the Mirai is only sold in California. I saw a few on the highways when I was over there last year.

Definitely not. Why?

The LC is one of those cars that looks amazing in person. Pictures can’t do it justice. It has significant road presence, an amazing naturally-aspirated V8 and is almost certainly a very comfy place to be.

Perhaps we’ve been all wrong about Predators. Maybe they are misunderstood, textile-based creatures that were scorned in favor of modern technology in some way, many generations ago. In their quest for justice they’ve evolved and adopted uniquely advanced weaponry to fight for their true place in the galaxy.

Interesting, so NHTSA buys them independently? They may be having trouble getting one, or it’s such a niche model it hasn’t been prioritized.

Yes, especially because Aurus was just founded in 2018.  The OLDEST models are like 3 years old.

The Model 3 and Model Y have very good scores in NHTSA and IIHS crash tests. If Tesla knew their “durable and rugged” Cybertruck would perform just as well, one assumes they would be tripping over themselves to provide examples to NHTSA and IIHS for testing.

I remember my E46 came with a full-size tire under the trunk floor, mounted to a matching light alloy wheel (style 68). You definitely don’t see that anymore!

AFAIK there is no BOF EV equivalent to the Tahoe.  Maybe the Rivian R1S is the closest alternative to a Tahoe.

Where was this argument during the SUV boom that started in the 1990s?

If you assume people shop within the same class of vehicle (i.e. - someone driving a Tahoe will probably not trade it in for a Leaf), then comparing EVs to ICEs is a good comparison.  

In my experience, factory tires are a compromise just like any other tire. I’ve replaced factory tires on Mazdas and BMWs that, for example, had terrible wet grip and noise with a different brand of tires that have good wet grip and are quieter but exhibit much worse steering response.

“The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It’s a weird statement piece and embodies the good and bad results of the “move fast and break stuff” culture at Tesla. That philosophy is (mostly) fine if you’re making something like a $1,000 iPad, but not really OK if you’re making a $80,000 passenger vehicle.

A day after it was unveiled in 2021, Alexander Jerich vandalized the mural with his truck as part of a birthday rally for (yep, you guessed it!) Donald Trump.