Posted on 12/23/2022 6:14:39 AM PST by Carriage Hill
It is the end of the road for mainstream rear-wheel-drive, four-door internal combustion engine cars. Kia has announced it will end production of the Stinger next year and is sending it out with a run of 1,000 Tribute Edition cars, with 400 earmarked for the U.S. It will be joined in the history books with the Dodge Charger, which is being replaced in 2024 by the all-electric Daytona Charger SRT coupe. Ford, Chevrolet and the non-luxury Japanese brands all stopped selling this type of car years ago as they transitioned to front-wheel-drive and SUV-focused lineups.
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What will happen in Texas...and elsewhere...when,in a few years,the Rats succeed in shutting down even more "fossil fuel" generating plants and,at the same time time,10% of cars on the road are EVs?
And for that matter...where will the lithium required to make all those batteries come from?
The marketplace has not gone away. When the big 3 go away, it creates a lot of entrepreneurships. Something meets the demand.
We are so used to centralized thinking it is hard for us to think differently.
The best think that might happen to us is the demise of the USA as we know it. (read those words carefully) We have witnessed the demise of a major world power in our lifetime. did the world end? Will it happen again? It has happened often in history. Prepare for the rebuild.
Years ago there was a South Park episode on that. Quite funny.
I'll take my Alaska weather over what's going on in the Lower 48 right now. Even in the Lower 48 I consider a sedan to be useless. Same with a 2WD pickup. I have a winter home in Arizona and even there I've had to use 4WD a few times.
A land full of natural resources; land, energy and labor will import all durable goods in the future, even cars/trucks/aircraft. Makes no sense....
I went the SUV route after the third child (no more room on the bench seat of the ol’ Chevy C10), and for carpooling to work.
Most embarrassing moment: Taking the kids to the mall in the SUV, Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild” came on the radio, so I turned up the volume. My daughter turns to me and says “Really Dad? You’re driving a mini-van.”
INEOS is made in phrance. Nope.
I guess you are rich can can afford the $8,000 optional mark up for 4x4 PU that most people living below I-40 use once per year..
It looks like a Tesla mated with a Prius. Still looks unattractive, as the front and rear are very much like the previous Prius.
In the golden age of the auto, 1961 - 1972, every car was front engine, rear wheel drive.
It’s less ugly.
I had a set on a Cadillac and they were amazing. I was driving through a lake effect blizzard in my old home town of Cleveland and it was stuck to the road.
That’s damning with faint praise.
in 2021, 2 different persons came into my small ranch, trying to buy my car & my truck—or both.
NEITHER is for sale-—NOT now-—Not later.
BUY a freezer-—
Hold visits to medical staff to a minimum.
You’d better opt for the “G8”.
6 undernourished vegan greenies don’t pull hard enough.
Yeah, some of the hills are pretty steep. Maybe keep a couple of extra greenies on the wagon. The eight could pull them around, on the flat parts, and I could hitch them up, as needed.
According to this it looks like around $50k
As my wife would say “so ugly it’s cute” 😏
https://www.forbes.com/wheels/news/2023-ineos-grenadier-first-drive/
“my 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee Supercharged HEMI V8 ‘Trackhawk”
How many millions of dollars you pay for that? LOL!
Flaging your post so I can curse myself in the future for not buying up every hunk of junk ICE I can get my hands on.
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