‘Subaru boss Tomomi Nakamura told the Wall Street Journal “he didn’t see much evidence Americans want electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids”’

Your logic doesn't belong here

A plug-in Wrangler Unlimited would be my ideal vehicle 

Nothing says a thousand words like a picture of a cherry red velour interior

That’s an understandable take. I think that both are failures, however. For different reasons though. One company failed to think of the car at all (Ford), and the other just thought of it in all the wrong ways. I just want a hatch with AWD and about 30 miles of range, damnit

One of the larger problems with Alfa’s relaunch is the reliability perception. Sales initially climbed because everyone stoked on getting an Alfa got one, and maybe some people became interested. However, nearly innumerable reports came back from the media questioning reliability, and everyone was taken back to 1980,…

I live right outside of Boulder, and I don't find it shocking at all that someone bothered to sink that much into an '89 Voyager to keep it running for 200k miles

The Honda Clarity may have been designed to fit the battery from the start, but that doesn't make it's trunk much better. You ever try to put large bags in it? The opening is remarkably small

Well duh, you just described the difference between the modelse

Why the Gladiator doesn't have this is beyond me

It’s just a less practical Fit that didn't exactly drive significantly better or get significantly better mileage. Honda really lost any direction after the original Insight, which is a shame. If there were any carmaker that was likely to give us a manual, fun to drive electrified car, it was Honda

What does that have to do with anything? I never proposed making hydrogen at home, nor is that a solution being proposed by anyone taking hydrogen infrastructure seriously

Japanese businesses can be very resistant to change because of their corporate structure revolving around seniority. I hope that Honda eventually sees the light in BEVs or hydrogen

I’d also echo the manual Accord or 6, but then suggest that, if it's not too crossover, a manual Outback was a thing for quite a long time

You can also generate it damn near everywhere, so it's not the biggest deal. It's just even more of a paradigm shift in infrastructure than BEVs are, while also requiring expensive fuel cells. 

There is no way this is worse than coupe SUVs or touch screen everything

Silliest trend is/was “family design”. It’s leaves automakers with 3 sizes of sedans and crossovers. Second place? “Coupe” SUVs

Just because someone is well off, doesn’t mean that they throw their money around nonchalantly. My father would have never bought a plug in if it weren’t for the tax credit, even though he could absolutely afford one. An incentive is an incentive, an the EV tax credit has, for sure, sold more vehicles than if it…

Maybe I'm missing something here, but what does Peugeot have to do with a midsize truck? It would have to be car based at that point

It’s going to have to undergo completely different safety testing as well as modeling. You can't remove an entire drivetrain and not redo safety testing