Except most manufacturers understand how long and difficult it is to set up a new line, so they don’t make ridiculous claims about building an absurd amount of cars before they’re ready. They also don’t throw themselves “we built a car” parties when the line isn’t even running yet.

Right now your typical EV buyer wouldn’t burden themselves with sports.

Verbal Government Approval = DM from Trump

These cars are going to be the 2025 version of the early 2000's V12 Mercs for only $4,000 that will surely bankrupt you that I so often see touted on this site.

As an agency guy working on an automotive account, I loved this. I know it was probably more of a one-off, given Eric’s insider knowledge, but I would LOVE to read more stuff like this about other car companies. Nice work Jalopnik.

Fantastic article. Two nitpicks...

a high debt to income could be a factor in this. You could easily have a score in the 700s and be on the verge of high debt to income. The new loan would put him over the top.

Yes yes yes about the thin credit!

This is why I always recommend a pre-approval from an outside lender before applying for a loan with the dealership.

I’d rather not go with someone who has to report to a parole officer. Don’t get me wrong, Petraeus is brilliant, but he had a serious lapse of judgement that was way worse than any email scandal.

The Rams green-lighting a tired reboot everyone already saw and hated is the most LA thing they’ve done yet.

That just applies to most law enforcement agencies that don’t require a college degree at a bare minimum, I think that’s almost all of them.

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A 9-7X Aero? That is a substantial upgrade and a he has great taste.

I sold lots of them, the swanky leather seat LT/SLT models were just a notch under a custom van, they had 3 rows of leather pseudo captains chairs that reclined, plus lots of people liked them because they could tow and were RWD.

I actually get that a lot too. At least in Spanish they have “vosotros”, depending on where you are.

One of my friend’s dads had one of these. AWD version, two-tone, loaded. We went on dozens of Boy Scout trips with it, hauling huge trailers of bicycles, going to summer camp, headbanging to Rammstein from across three rows of leather seats. (We were a weird troop.) It racked up probably around 200,000 miles before it…

Powell has or had a collection of Volvos.

Feel better now?

Does the car’s performance suffer when you drive it to Cincinnati?