Neon SRT-4 is not awful. Quite the opposite. Neon ACR the same. Great success in SCCA.
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I have said it many times on this website, the Redline was NOT The only Vue to have the Honda V6. The standard Vue had the Honda V6 option as well as AWD. The Redline was all suspension and appearance, nothing was done to the engine.
The Taurus SHO has to take the crown here… not one, but four generations of a car with a pretty great engine stuffed into a pretty mediocre and not at all sporty body:
The more I’ve been thinking and discussing, there really isn’t any type of car that needs to go electric to convince me to buy electric. Generally speaking, by making a particular make/model into an EV variation would simply ruin it in some ways while making it better in other ways.
Ghost chargers are becoming a real problem because the incentives were to *build* the chargers. Not actually operate them. So they built them, and then never turned them on.
For me, it has very little to do with the actual car. If I’m out driving in a metroplex and hit traffic and am at risk of running out of battery power, I’m screwed. If I’m in an ICE, I grab a can and go find fuel. I can’t carry electricity and a mobile battery would be huge, expensive and heavy. Without charging…
That’s entirely the wrong question if the idea is to increase EV sales over ICE.
Probably none if I’m honest.
I already went electric for my daily driver, but I would love something like the Dodge Magnum as an electric vehicle. I love wagons and I loved my Magnum R/T in spite of its terrible interior. Better handling than a crossover or SUV but still gave me a lot of cargo capacity while not infringing on seating space. My…
A minivan or SUV that costs less than ~$45k. With a house of 6, a BEV just isn’t a realistic option.
Agree with Minivans. I own 2 Siennas, initially out of necessity since I have 5 kids, but GD they’re pretty much the perfect utilitarian car. The 2GRFE is nuke proof- we’re talking a 400,000mi drivetrain as long as you give it synthetic every 5k miles. The amount of shit I have hauled with these things is pretty damn…
Subjectively, though, they are almost universally tall and ugly and largely responsible for killing a lot of cool, sleek sedans.
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My issue is people using their highbeams because they are too poor and lazy to replace their burnt out low beams, or just riding around with their highbeams on just because they dont know any better. So many Altimas driving around like that.
I’m kind of surprised they completely missed the fourth reason our headlights suck for everyone else on the road: newer headlights are brighter and have a sharper cutoff at the belt-line. It’s great for drivers, but any time you crest even a slight rise in the road, or even hit a bump, it looks to oncoming traffic…
Anecdotally, I feel like Honda/Acura has aggressively bright headlights. Back when I was a teenager, my parents had an early ‘00s Acura TL, and they got flashed constantly by people thinking the high beams were on. Fast forward to today, my last couple cars have had pretty bright (IMO) LED headlights, but I don’t…
If I had a nickel for every time the inside of my skull got X-Rayed by an oncoming Acura MDX...
I refuse to be a luddite, but I also just hate to see internal combustion thrown out. Anyone who claims that EVs are more eco-friendly than a modern ICE is fooling themselves.
The lack of infrastructure plus the effect of cold weather on EVs are major detractors. Motor Trend just posted something about their experiences which confirms a lot of what my friends with EV have said: