Not sure if you noticed it, but trucks are popular everywhere.

I’d listen to your wife. She seems like a very smart woman. 

If you want a Model 3 or Y - might be a good time to buy while they still have signal stalks and steering wheels instead of yokes and capacitive buttons. 

They weren’t necessarily wrong for killing off the last Ranger in the early 2010s - sales had fallen off massively and they just weren’t popular anymore in the US. On the other hand, sales of the larger F-series trucks with “big truck” options on them had been climbing more and more, and the introduction of the Raptor…

You: The 18 minutes it takes to charge from 10-80% is too much time! CAN’T DO IT. UNACCEPTABLE

I don’t think anybody wants to live next to someone running a DIY junkyard.  Enough people around that to complain for sure, even if you can’t see it from the road.

I am. In Florida v Riley in 1989 the Supreme Court said:

For one, I live in a condo building and there is no charging infrastructure. I mean, there is infrastructure but it amounts to two chargers for a 45 story building and I don’t even know if they work for anything other than Teslas. And then there’s just the kind of driving I do and why I own the car I have now. I only…

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I’m no lawyer, but I think it’s generally accepted that if something can be seen from a public area, such as the street, that no warrant is required. My bet would be that the Michigan Supreme Court decides that the sky above someone’s property is public, but who knows.…

Why didn’t they just sign up for auto pay and save .1% on the interest???

“The payments are absolute budget busters. The average car payment for new car buyers was $800 last year, [and] about one in seven buyers has a payment of at least $1,000 a month”

LOL no, but you could do like those mad lad YouTubers, who bolted a diesel, I think, generator to their tesla to charge while they drove.

The leaf has worked for many with far less range...  I would argue most household with two adults have two cars (at least those who consider buying a new car) so it could work for them

EV are threat due to fixed price policies of manufacturers. 

Kinda sounds to me like they don’t want to sell them because they don’t sell well, not so much that they refuse to because of personal reasons.

Yes. The article gets into that. They lose a lot of revenue from the backend with EVs. Fewer touch points with the customer through maintenance is also an issue because it’s fewer opportunities to sell you.

Could one of the reasons for their pushback be also that a large amount of their business is not selling you a new car. Its servicing your new car. For non warranty stuff. That they have control over how much to charge you for. And an EV is going to have potentially less of that (Or at least they fret it will).

At the…

The only way to survive this car is to feature it in a YouTube series about how it financially ruins you. Or at least that’s primarily what shows up on my recommended list.  I don’t think even Hoovie would touch this thing.

“ I’ve long held that the New Edge body style is one of the Mustang’s best”

This is actually a deeply philosophical question. In one take, the first Mustang, 64 1/2 is the only Mustang as everything that came afterwards is something else.