As bullish as I am for the electric future, I suspect Toyota is making the smart move right now with extended range electrics like the Rav4 prime and the Prius Prime, rather than going full-blown electric like Ford’s Mustang Mach-e. These vehicles allow you to run electric day in and day out, but move to gas when a…

I don’t really want to see it either, so that works out.

Hopefully one that has hidey-hide upholstery.

If only if it was that simple...

Couldn’t agree with this more. To me the real genius of the Wrangler is the same as the Mustang: There’s one for everyone. A yellow convertible EB, straight piped bro-mobile GT, or track-ripper Shelby, are driven by people who want totally different things, but all get them from a Mustang.

I try to only fly for trips that are longer than an 8 hour drive; even frequently did DragonCon trips in one day driving from Chi to Atl (about 11 hours or so) up until the last few days when parking costs were $55 a day for 5 days lol.

I rented a Wrangler for a week in 2021, and damn if it didn’t make me feel like I could drive over anything, anywhere, and made me feel good. And this was in urban Charlotte. Popped the roof panels off easily enough, too. While I daily a GTI (which apparently has tons of haters here, I pity them ;-) ) I did really like…

Yup, see my defense in this thread. It’s larger, you can get a stick in ALL the trims, not just the base, a 4 door, a convertible, and it’s fun. There’s no other SUV or truck that offers all that except the crazier priced, hard to get Bronco.

Horrible reliability lead me to trade my V60 for an Outback. You are right about Volvo not wanting to sell wagons in the US. The Outback is a big wagon and does most things better than the Volvo, but looks boring and their are sooo many of them. I’m still holding out hope that America will rediscover wagons.

The Outback is marketed as a crossover/SUV. We gearheads know that it’s a wagon, but that’s not how it’s sold to the lay person.

This sounds about right. A week or so ago I was poking around on websites here in Florida. I could drive 10 minutes and get an Ioniq 5 (maybe 6 too? I forget) from the local Hyundai dealer.

I always thought these kind of did make some degree of sense. You get an unassuming, easy-to-park, economical city car with a luxurious interior. No they weren’t worth their MSRP new, but I think a rich weirdo could do worse if they wanted something unique to bomb around London in.

I would totally get one and use it for trolling.  I’d valet park it everywhere, and when it was time to leave, I’d loudly ask them to “bring around the Aston Martin, please.”

The flip side is that these celebrities often get expanded access, free tickets, and other perks to show up to the race, with some minor expectation that they’ll be thrown in front of cameras and likely have a microphone shoved in their face and asked some questions. I agree they don’t have to give an interview; they…

There was no outcry - there’s a conspicuous outcry-shaped hole in the article. On the other hand, this may be a rare instance of the (very dull) truth getting round the world before the lie has got its socks on.

It’s the perfect “enrage to engage” reporting technique. Go on Twitter, find people angry about something (everyone on Twitter is angry about something at all times, I guess they find it fun), and report on it. Then you get three responses:

Everything is so dumb these days.  

Do you like looking at pictures of ridiculously expensive cars that you’ll probably never see in real life and couldn’t buy even if you could afford them?

At that depth, it would have needed to be full of some form of explosive to actually explode. The end ring from the carbon tube (titanium) and the tube end with the window both look to be in great shape... minus the window.

The media has confused the hell out of people I think. People expected that the whole entire vessel collapsed in on itself like a black hole, and all that should be left is a hunk of metal the size of a soccer ball or something