I’m in very much the same boat. Still using an original Versa, but have been contemplating the switch to the apple watch for the added functionality (responding to texts and taking phone calls mostly). In your experience is it worth the upgrade? Sounds like I’d be better off holding on to the Versa a bit longer.

Isn’t that true of any car that’s heavily reliant on downforce, regardless of how its generated? I imagine the current cars already have that issue. Hell look how crap they are when cornering while following another car.

This video goes through a lot of the reasoning if you’re curious

That decision was made pre-COVID, this gen explorer came out 2 years ago. I can understand why they’d be supply constrained now, but I can’t understand why they didn’t release the PHEV alongside the regular one in 2019.

It staggers me that so few manufacturers have figured this out. A PHEV powertrain is so perfect for the suburban family SUV for the reasons you mention yet hardly any exist. Ford might be the most baffling - a PHEV explorer exists in other markets (and in its fancy Lincoln twin) but they don’t offer it in the US.

It’s really hard to take this article seriously when it’s so incredibly biased. I’m not trying to say DuPont doesn’t deserve plenty of scorn (and punishment) for some of its practices, but based on the second paragraph you’d think everything they’ve ever done is evil. This is also the company behind acrylic, neoprene,…

To be fair, they weren’t trying that hard. Pulled from Ford’s India website*.

Seems unlikely to happen. As other commenters have mentioned power in an EV right now is mostly limited by the battery pack, not the motor. Swapping a battery pack can be done, but they’re so heavy you usually need some specialized equipment. You’re not doing it in the garage by yourself with some wrenches.

Holy run-on sentence that was difficult to read.

It’s bought by retirees. These tiny crossovers have replaced the old LaCrosse/Avalon/etc. full size sedans those people used to buy. Sitting up higher is easier on old bones, and they don’t have kids to haul around any more so they don’t care about back seat room. The hatchback gets them enough trunk space for golf…

People should keep in mind that even in this crazy market you can still get Arteons with decent cash on the hood.

Torch you tried this on your wife’s car and the Pao? When the shitbox Yugo is sitting right there?

That would be a very different (and more fun) game

Terrible. Not one mention of dynamic anywhere. What is this, amateur hour?

The CX-7 had them for sure.

Forget computers, I want to know what the hell anyone is supposed to do with this sign in the paper...

To be fair Ferrari sold it as a way to make shifting easier, so you can’t hit the stalks accidentally as you’re going for a paddle.

This got me -
“the newly developed Virtual Assistant (VA) is intended to be the primary way occupants interact with the new multimedia system and is designed to enable a voice first application”

I’m not sure that would matter, I’d be more worried about the water in the surrounding atmosphere condensing and freezing onto it. Again, maybe the thrust is too short lived for this to matter, but it would definitely be a problem at some point.