I’ve seen a number of Caddy design studies from the 70s that suggest they’d wanted to do a bustle-back for a fair while. I think their implementation on the Seville was the best (on the others it largely looks like an afterthought). I was a weird kid who loved luxury cars and I kind of lusted after all of these in one…

I like the design of the C-HR a lot. It feels like the closest thing to an affordable sport coupe out there right now.

This is a cruiser. It can move fast, it looks good, and the top drops. Cool, but not intended to carve canyons.

That console alone is worth a grand, for someone who has a use for it. This might make a decent stormchaser car.

This is an uncommonly gorgeous design. Like, better than most other supercars out there. I’d take this over a Chiron any day.

This is a car I honestly love, if only because teenaged-me lusted after it when new (also, my first car was a Celica). And this looks really clean and attractive; I’d happily own it.

I know of one especially cool application: in a Chilean copper mine the actual mine is on top of a high mountain. The trucks drive up empty, get loaded, and creep down with regen braking and keep the batteries topped up. They’re fully charged when the reach the bottom and can return up the mountain.

I don’t think it’s at all impossible to build HD electric trucks (there are electric mine haulers that likely weigh out to 100 tons loaded). But it’s not like this isn’t a new market with considerable risk. Of course Ford wants to distribute that risk. I won’t slag them for that.

I dunno... to me it adds a certain air of cheesy authenticity lol

Well cared-for, some intelligent work done on it, and a ton of potential to do more. NP.

This is about as Meh Car Monday as it gets. And it’s probably $1,000 overpriced.

Cars like the Atom aren’t intended to drive on any road where a collision like that could happen.

The back end is clunky and imo doesn’t fit the front.

I live in Whitehorse, Yukon, just above the top of the Alaska Panhandle. We’re remote, about a thousand miles from the nearest Canadian city. We have a growing number of EVs here and the infrastructure is developing.

I’m kind of amazed I’ve never heard of this before, because this is very much up my alley.

Ehhhhh, I know where you’re going with that, but there ARE limits. Also, much as I love 914s it’s hardly the most valuable model (a 911 might be worth the trouble... this? not so much).

It looks great but I despair for the packaging. The Pacer was originally designed for the GM Wankel and when they had to shoehorn their I6 in to replace it the rear cylinders were almost in the passenger cabin. This would have been worse.

The Aviator Grand Touring PHEV is upwards of 500hp, but Lincoln seems to be deliberately subverting performance to luxury. That works for me, for sure, but it seems to be a different approach to the kind of hardcore performance Cadillac was pursuing with their V-series.

That instrument panel on the new Escalade is absolutely beautiful, agreed. Probably my current favorite. Looks very clean and very upscale. Even nicer than M-B’s scheme. It’s a shame the body styling doesn’t follow.

Depends on what you’re looking for. If you’re looking for the authentic legacy American Luxe experience, I guess that a Town Car would probably be the best, and if you intend to drive it a lot it would be better since it would be considerably easier to find parts. They built tons of them.