Counterpoint : EVs don’t sell well in Europe, except in Scandinavia.

Ha ! I’m not sure that has a lot to do with a manual transmission being “undrivable”.
Europe is also more populated in a smaller area than the US are, so I would think the population density would make for larger traffic jams.
I live in the 2nd largest city in France (roughly the size of San Francisco or Philadelphia)…

I’d wager your knee would have been hurting anyway if 20 minutes were enough to hurt.
My friend drives an OG Saab 900 with a very heavy clutch everyday to get downtown in the largest city in France (so I suppose the traffic jams are quite comparable to what you get in most american cities), she has never complained…

I don’t get that argument. Everyone in my family (and virtually everyone I know) has always bought manual cars, and they never saw a problem with driving them even in bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic.

My dad bought an automatic Volvo a few years ago, and he constantly wishes he had chosen a manual instead. His next…

With the variations in car seat required as the baby ages, and the small percentage of customers that would be interested in such an option (new-car buyers who have very small children are a small demographic. Even for minivans, the median buyer’s age is over 40), I suspect it would lose money for automakers.

Thus why…

They’re not meant to get out of home, but to get you home when you’re already out and lack traction to come back.

I belive so. Although the Venza is quite a bit larger than the Rav4, isn’t it ? Anyway, those two are also probably a lot more reliable, although by the facelift, the 2nd gen Freelander seemed to have gotten fairly reliable too.

That’s shitty. If the previous owner sounds so whiny, you can just not buy his car, it’s not as if G37s were rare.
You could also buy it, and not tell him what you’re going to do with it if you know he’s going to be upset about it.

Why would you go out of your way just to be an ass ?

Haha, well played !

Maybe the Freelander is seen as ‘a Land-Rover for people who can’t afford a Range-Rover’ in America, but over here it’s just a car for old people.

It has leather, a high ride height which makes for easier ingress/egress when your knees hurt, and come from a perfectly respectable brand. For old folks who don’t care…

IDK, he’s been driving it for ages. Anyone wanting to assassinate him would probably know what he drives anyway.

Besides, what would be the point ? He’s not the king, he’s old, and aside from being like you would imagine a nearly 100 years old royal to be, he hasn’t done anything that could make people hate him enough…

It’s a Kia MPV (what you would call a minivan on this side of the pond), and the Duke’s Land-Rover is a Freelander, aka the smallest SUV Land-Rover makes (and it’s been discontinued five years ago. The duke’s might be even older).

Nothing incredible really.

Why add a comma ? How do you pronounce these sentences ?
(Joke’s on me if it’s a joke, I didn’t get it)

What kind of action ? They can’t get away from it, and if they try to detonate it at a distance, they explode with it.

It’s actually larger than the Mazda5 / Kia Rondo, but smaller than the Odyssey / Town and Country.

It’s part of the “large MPV” segment, with its twin the VW Sharan, as well as the Ford Galaxy, the Renault Espace, the Peugeot 807/Citroën C8, the Mitsubishi Grandis and Toyota Previa.

They’re considered full-size in…

That’s forgetting that a car always sells better in its home country.

I may see two or three Escalade every year in Europe, and I saw just ONE XT5.
Apparently in China, the Escalade is way behind the GLS and the Range-Rover.
I don’t have the numbers for Latin America or the Middle-East, but I’d wager that over there…

Ha ! Fair enough :)

It really is a magnificent island, and it is full of splendid places if you get off the tourist trails.

The northeastern part is the most touristic. It has the nicest beaches, pretty marinas, and good shops. But the resort towns aren’t very authentic, and it’s not that different from other resort cities on the french…

Well then, that wouldn’t explain why people did give up the convenience of minivans to replace them with SUVs.

It’s easier to load kids into a minivan with sliding doors, the boot is larger, you can pack it with larger items, the seating position is as high as most CUVs and only slightly below large SUVs like the…

FJ Cruiser ?