BBearcat, daveott3 and others above make good points. The above is pathetic, marketed at little boys, regardless age. You can't have a four-door sports car pick up truck. The above is even more moronic than when that hick Bill Mitchell told his designers he wanted, for what became the '63 Buick Riviera, "a Ferrari Rolls-Royce."
How many times a year are you pulling a trailer or boat? So rent a truck. Do you know how dopey you look bombing around in the above Legomobile? This is what happens in a society of spoilt "having-it-all" brats with no knowledge or exposure to automotive history, when the bloated creatures in Pixar's 2008 WALL-E are now the lame stream citizens; fully a third of Americans clinically morbidly obese.
How many people driving the above could run half a mile without collapsing?
Over the past 120 years, thousands of car companies were allowed to fold. The above nonsense from the company whose executives flew to Washington in 2008 in their private jets to pick up their Welfare--- oops, "corporate bailout checks" at our expense. The same company that sued the US govt. for War II Allied bombing damage to their German Opel plants.
EVs are of course smart, at the turn of the previous century, comprised 38% of all cars on our nation's roads, steam 40% -- Bill Lear(jet) was working on modern variant before he died in 1978-- only 22% internal combustion, so we're only making a belated u-turn.
But the real threat to internal combustion, and private cars in general, remains overpopulation, and something most people do not want to face, what they eat. UN and other vetted studies show animals raised for meat and dairy produce more greenhouse gas than all the world's cars, trucks, buses, trains, planes, ships combined.
Without tax incentives to have "one or none," or to adopt, and do something that hasn't hurt the world's leading Grand Prix driver, Lewis Hamilton or 77-year-old rocker rodder Jeff Beck in the least, going vegan, we'll all be left with silliness like the above; future wars over not just oil, but copper, fresh water, lithium.
You'll also vastly reduce likelihood of heart attack, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, arthritis, osteoporosis, macular degeneration, cataracts, dementia and Alzheimer's, so you can see where you're driving and remember where you left your car keys.
EV batteries, heavy metals, e-waste now merely shipped off to Asia, where it finds its way into ground water, all marine life now containing some levels of toxins and plastic.
Norway is banning all i.c. cars, collector cars included, in three (3) years, 2025, the rest of Scandinavia 2030, the European Union 2035, France and England, for now, holding out 'til 2040, 2050. Until we take personal responsibility, here in the US, expect -- at the very least -- evermore surcharges and nuisance fees.
What real car guy would be caught dead in the above kindergartener's dream truck? Will there be a Dale Evans edition of the above four-door useless shortbed let's play house for suburban cowgirls, too? "Silverado." Some people will buy anything. The gold and silver rush have been over for a century-plus.
Get it together, kids.
And aren't the above press releases purveyed as articles something we can get from Motor Trend and Car and Drivel?
