GenX here. the C8 is in fact, good. The fact that (anecdotally one) boomer hates it is going to be KEY in getting young people to change their mind.

Speaking as someone born in the mid 80s, who found out he was a millennial at 32 years old, and has loved Corvettes since birth, I think the C8 is great and am really excited to see how it evolves over this generation.

“Ever think about time?” - “Like really think about time?”

Slightly embarrassed to admit this one, but it’s probably Fiat 500L.

Oh look, here’s a Beck Speedster for $33k:

For this kind of money you can make or get a Speedster replica that is very close to a real speedster in looks and experience, light, balanced and fun. With the fender flairs, Corvair engine, and cheap racing seats this thing is not a cheap substitute for the real deal, it is an overpriced kit car.  No Dice at half…

The leaked video mentioned an NX 450h+. My bet is the + means plug-in. Using the 308hp RX 450h as a basis, I’d expect this should be in the same ballpark. The Rav4 Prime makes 302hp.  That would be a very compelling “car that my spouse drives”.  Easy on gas, nice interior, comfortable, easy to live with... which means…

>$30k for a well done replica? Maybe if it was one of those Stratos kits...

In a plutonomy there is no such animal as “the U.S. consumer” or “the UK consumer”, or indeed the “Russian consumer”. There are rich consumers, few in number, but disproportionate in the gigantic slice of income and consumption they take. There are the rest, the “non-rich”, the multitudinous many, but only…

Ahem

. . . I’m honestly surprised there hasn’t been one yet. If I had the money I’d build one, my dad would love that.

Part of the reveal mentions that there’s an NX450h Plus variant which is a plug-in. 

I hope that they take that good performing Rav-4 plugin hybrid drive train and offer this car with it. Or better yet put it in the smaller lighter UX and make it a little electrified hot hatch-ish car.
I do have to say that i like the look of the older NXinterior even if its not ergonomically great.

Maybe they will beat it, maybe they won’t. Of the dozen new cars I have financed, they have beaten my credit union exactly twice. Matched them once. But going in without your own financing prearranged is just chumming for sharks. And for God’s sake don’t tell them what your pre-arranged rate is, only that they are…

You joke, but It’s probably the sad truth.

You want them to put in piano black plastic and charge you $1,000 on top of MSRP?

Yup, everyone made fun of them—including me—but I knew they were a harbinger of our future automotive borescape.

Oh if history serves correctly, Catholic churches def think about the children.

Just as one point of annoyance - the real world had remote unlocking by ‘83 without big antennas. I’m sure you could come up with a plausible alternate reality reason why it was needed, but it just feels like failing to give the Renault Fuego the respect it’s so clearly due (what, you mean not everyone knows that’s…