100% on this.

Better charger options are the solution to that. If there were a charger at your work that would help.

My very first car was a red ‘76 Celica SR5 Liftback so I’m totally with you.

What’s hilarious about the whole culture war aspect of EVs is that it’s the red states that are overwhelmingly benefiting from the new manufacturing capacity for them.

Depends on how the car is driven. A recent study in Europe found that most employees who had been given PHEV company cars didn’t bother charging them.

Yeah, and in Europe researchers found that when employees were given PHEV company cars they tended to run them almost exclusively on gas. So I agree that this assumption is suspect.

I know I’m piling on, but the PT is an easy winner.

Objectively, yes, this is a good deal. It’s not “just” the color, it’s the Performance trim, too. And Enhanced Autopilot ain’t cheap (assuming Tesla lets you actually transfer it to the buyer’s account).

By “packaging” I mean you lose all the space advantages that an EV has. No chance of having a frunk, for instance, and you wind up with the need of a tunnel to route exhaust. A “pure” EV platform is a lot more flexible for packaging.

I don’t think people realize how close we came to this in 2008 before the big bailout. Many politicians were screaming that the automakers should all be allowed to fail. I don’t know what these people were expecting the result would be.

I get the attraction to PHEVs. For years I just assumed that was what I would do myself, but when I looked at how I actually drive I found that an EV would work just fine for me.

Beautiful car. Great condition. Well-loved. Too expensive.

ICE-to-EV is the largest “platform migration” consumers are ever going to have to face. As much as it’s a cliche, it’s a marathon, not a sprint.

I honestly liked that gen. It’s not my favorite (the ‘79-’83 is my personal champ there) but I thought they were trying to do something interesting, unlike, say, the late ‘80s retro-ish body.

This is another one of those posts that tests the NP/ND concept. It’s not “is it a nice price for me?”, it’s “is it a nice price?” period (at least in my opinion).

Not for me (I didn’t fit well in these when I was 50 lbs smaller than now), but this is in decent shape and would make a fun summer runner, and those seats... Mmmmm... NP

I voted NP, assuming it did okay in an inspection (the condition of the car seems good from the pics but a little vague from the description in the listing)

The ZEV credits have worked EXACTLY as intended. A company finds an effective way to address the market and it gives the other companies the option to either compete head on or defer a few years until they’re ready.

This is a throwback in more ways than one. Light trucks used to have massively long model cycles. The Ford F-Series remained on essentially the same platform for almost all of the 80s and 90s.

I’m going NP on this. It’s clean, fairly original, and honestly it’s marginally collectible. I kinda dig it, honestly.