Thanks for that. I’ve got a guy I work with that tells me daily how bad an idea a fusion was and how it screwed up his life and I’m starting to worry.

Large cars are almost all near luxury or higher today. The raging bargain the 300C was is gone. Reliable, huge, well equipped, and cheap for the size is a combination that gone.

All that is left is the Pacifica. Which after something like 20 years of building them are likely fairly reliable now. But the Kia, Honda, and Toyota minivans would be way before them on the shopping list new.  Well, maybe not the Kia.  That would involve dealing with their dealerships.

We had a dumb case a couple nights ago.

Is the 300 still in production?

In my opinion, what will hold back R2/R3 sales won’t be demand but production. I would shop an R2/R3 over a Y 7 days a week if it was available, well-built and similarly priced. It’s not Elon that is the deal breaker, it’s something else.

What the hell does this gas bag know about non-self-driving cars?

About the Optimus.

If the Kia dealership and the Stellantis dealership could switch products, you have a place I would recommend to shop for a new vehicle without reservation.

Now that the brand I recommend to never consider is taken (Stellantis), I’m going to recommend brands I wouldn’t consider new just because the dealers suck.

That’s the first thing I thought.

I just hope the guys with the kill switches didn’t need to pull a board.

Depends on budget. Older minivans of any breed tend to have problems with power doors and lift gates. These aren’t cheap to fix. A manual lift gate isn’t that bad, as long as the struts are in good shape, but a no-longer-powered one is a pain in the back to open and close.

Sliding doors are also good for dogs, who tend to try to bum rush the door into the house and find the swinging door in the way.

I’ll have to do that when I have a chance. I simplified the movement dramatically to just show that the resistance to automation and how it impacts the number of jobs is a VERY old problem.

The answer is to think inside the box.

Regardless, a 150 mph in a normal modern car is insane and those have so much more safety systems are so much more stable at speed.

Exactly. It’s all in how you do it. Boring car driven like a maniac is less boring than an awesome car stuck in traffic with nothing to do but watch the trucknuts swinging on the jacked up truck in front of you.

Take a ride with a mom late for work that is trying to break up a fight in her back seat between the brood while texting and tell me a CR-V is boring.

Amazing.