That number is presented out of the blue, as a potential rate for someone in the worst credit tier, and includes a dealer markup.

While that 84-month term may make that payment on an Si look appealing, it’s not a good idea in the long run. For one, the vehicle will lose value faster than you can repay the loan, and the long term means a person will be paying more interest, especially if a buyer doesn’t have a Tier 1 (scores of 700 or above)…

Bikes don’t need microchips.

What is the reaction of random people to the face?

You have no idea how much it pains me to sound anything like a “I’ll just wait a few years and pick one up used” guy, but this really does seem like a good future buying opportunity.

But this isn’t 1970 anymore, and it’s not as if automotive media is still a necessary gatekeeper between brands and consumers.

probably make Twitter a worse place to be.

Another journalist dumped the whole car into a ditch, earning it a brand-new front end and those are the just the spills we know about on the final wave of journalists.

It’s bad news for us

No Vortec and no 4x4 means no dice from me, but nice looking machine.

But if the problem was with consumer demand, wouldn’t we see Cherokees piling up on dealer lots?

It’s more than the chip shortage.

the electric grid itself turned away from fossil fuels.

The concepts and attitudes that make Toyota a market leader (efficient manufacturing, continuous improvement, long term focus, temperamentally conservative mindset) are not secrets nor difficult to understand, they are just difficult to consistently implement.

Even if they do, it’s a RWD transmission.

Nothing better than taking your kid out for a ride in the sports car in a few years though. Best way to get them hooked on cars.

I think there is some value in preserving a branch of the government proportional to states rather than population directly (ie keep the Senate). I do think the redundant overweighting of rural states (Senate and EC) is too much, so I tend to agree with the idea of a popular vote for president. I’d also be OK with…

Well, my main issue with the Grand Cherokee L is that it does nothing better than a Chrysler Pacifica.

Both the Senate and the presidential primary system are biased toward rural, farm oriented states, so their interests are always taken more seriously, and there isn’t a more farm oriented issue than ethanol. The blending rules are one of the worst scams and naked handouts this country forces on its citizens/taxpayers.

Piëch had high and sometimes wild engineering standards, such as wanting the VW Phaeton to “sustain 186 mph all day, in 122-degree weather, with an interior temperature of 72 degrees.”