But it’d be a hell of a funny remake.

Volkswagen New Beetle. Remember when these were everywhere? They only stopped production 5 years ago after making some 350,000 of them, now I only see 1-2 a month. The catch is that it’s the same 1-2 I see over and over again (probably owned by true loyalists.) In 10 years the few that are left now will have succumbed…

You purchase the car without the pack. You get whatever the dealer has charged when you drive off the lot and batteries are standardized across all manufacturers. Often, electronics you buy come “batteries not included” and you can go anywhere and buy a D, C, AA, etc. cell and it works just fine.

I’m really enjoying all the new ways people are finding to break their Cybertrucks by subjecting them to what most people would call, “normal usage.”

NP. Summer fun with the top down, no problem finding parts, can be wrenched. This would be a great summer daily, or a great first car for your kid right up until they jump the curb and drive into the wall of some strip mall.

With the steep depreciation EVs experience, If you were looking to buy one of these are you better off taking the lease then buying the car at the end?If you take that $69/month deal, you’ve paid about $7500 after two years @ $309/month. Surely a $41,541 car will have depreciated more than than in two years? If you…

I’m sorry, that wasn’t my intention. Given the time of year, I figured this feed would be full of reminiscences about piling into family wagons for vacations and working together on project cars and first times driving a stick in dad’s pickup, etc. But there are all kinds of dads (and all kinds of relationships with…

The “I’m a dad who just made his last court-ordered child support payment” car.

How can anyone justify this treatment? How can people continue to make excuses for such an objectively flawed and compromised vehicle?

I interpreted “every American can agree on” to mean something like “what would Americans settle on if we can only have one car” (what we’d say, ‘yeah, I guess’ to.) Something akin to America’s Volkswagen Beetle.

Hear me out:
You want a car that gets relatively good mileage, is relatively reliable, has enough cargo room for a family of 5 or 10+ bags of soil (sorry, Cybertruck), is quirky for the kids, easy for the olds to get in and out of, and is relatively inexpensive to buy and maintain.

Child of the 1980s -- excellent idea!  

I want gullwing doors that turn into wings and the ability to take off and land a car in less than a block’s worth of road using jet power from the exhaust. Oh, and they should shoot lasers. Second choice would be the motorcycle/helicopter.

Agree that it should be a % over. 10 over in a 20 zone is terribly dangerous.

We can’t add more comprehensive driver education

We can’t add more comprehensive driver education or enforcement via hard limiters or ticketing, that’s completely counter to American values of individual freedom at the expense of societal safety, so we have to resort to nagging. My GPS already turns the little MPH indicator sign on the screen red when I’m speeding,…

This framing plays on a fallacy of its own, the false analogy. Presenting economy numbers is for the purpose of comparing one car against another, not for comparing one replacement scenario against another completely different replacement scenario.

Well, there goes that bonus.

Skeffles dismissed my reply, so I’m posting it here. I hope their day gets better.

Haha got dismissed, I guess. Reposting for the benefit of those “this is dumb and lazy” replies: