As I made my choice, it was exactly 50-50 at 350 votes. I can understand why people are so torn about this.

You’re ignoring the fact that tall front ends are significantly deadlier to pedestrians and cyclists. We can also do multiple things at once. There’s no reason we can’t crack down on distracted driving and also discourage people from buying big, tall vehicles that are objectively more dangerous to others.

You’re going to use the soft-road appearance package of one of the most bland vehicles of all time as some sort of last-stand, own the libs vehicle?

Deaths from drunk driving have been continuously hovering 11k-14k deaths a year for the last 20 years, varying by year with no pattern going up or down. Pretty consistent overall, so the idea that you can greatly reduce them based purely on enforcement doesn’t appear to be true. However, America has uniquely high…

Yeah, how dare I advocate for a society where fewer people die unnecessarily.

Very much a relief that the Z71 package has been added. Now me and my children Tanlyeigh, Macaydan, Drandinn, and Briyannaxtin won’t have to worry when the school parking lot has leaves on it. 

“Expensive EVs have reached buyer saturation” - couldn’t agree more. 

Meh, not that I’m likely to be able to afford anything soon anyway, but until one of these comes as part of the deal where I can just take it out and unfold it next to my car at an apartment complex, I can’t get that excited about one.

Turns out marking up cars way above MSRP, with high payments might not have been a good long-term strategy.

Aww jeez dude, looks like manufacturers are going to start having to make affordable cars again

....or rich enough.

Big ups to your second point. I never thought there would be any comeuppance on the manufacturers for abandoning cheap volume in favor of higher-margin vehicles, but we might actually be looking at it. Covid made the original problem worse as production availability actually became a limiting factor, but the long term…

I already passed on my Lightning reservation, because Ford won’t actually sell you the cheapest model and prices went up so much it was just stupid to buy one. I see exactly ONE Lightning available right now on lots within 50 miles of me, it’s the base Pro model, and the posted price is $98k. These price cuts are…

So cheaper cars have the shortest inventory. Shocking, considering the brands have been pushing hard to sell more expensive product. Remember, the chip shortage meant manufacturers selling only more expensive models because of the fatter profit margins.

Fair market value is not fair.

2nd Gear - the race to have unsold inventory on dealer lots?

We had to run out of people dumb enough to take on a 1k car payment at some point.

NP for the right person, that person being the one wanting to re-live the late 70s / early 80s car scene, or at least have memories of that era being constantly stoked by this ride.

The Corvette going from [Mid]Front Engined to Mid [Rear] Engined seems like less of a departure than the a two door pony car to a 4 door hatch back (if you refuse to call it an SUV) as its still a 2 door sports coupe.

Yes, the Mach-E.