Apparently not enough Americans like wagons and hatchbacks. Unfortunately these are the vehicle types I prefer.
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I have owned, in my life
2 hatchbacks
1 station wagon
2 coupes
4 sedans
2 pickups
1 minivan
7 SUVs
I liked the 1 station wagon that I had, up until it was hit. After that repair, it was never quite right.
So don’t import too many. Import what the market can bear. Import on demand.
We need to bring back the wood panels imo
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This plug in hybrid wagon got discontinued for the US due to low sales, but is holding value very well as some people really want this type of vehicle
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/07/volvos-quickest-wagon-is-turning-out-to-be-a-smart-investment/
Volvos have always been popular in Canada and this plug-in hybrid is still being sold. We are looking for a plug-in hybrid: this one looks great but it may be a bit above our price range. Toyota is more likely.
Be curious to see if Canada does the same as Australia and allows Chinese vehicles to be sold without crazy tariffs. Then you’re better off going for a pure EV.
PHEVs have a much higher fire risk and a lot more parts can break down (since it has two motors).
The old Volvo R cars were like that, I seriously considered buying one of these but it was just more than I wanted to spend. But a 455hp wagon is right in my sweet spot.
Last I looked the Cadillac CTS-V wagons were also holding some pretty good value. Those had a blown V8 with something like 565hp.
Note they did take advantage of a 1300m elevation drop, but got nearly 750 miles on a single charge.
I wonder what the range would be if they reversed the route.
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It takes 32M joules to lift 2500kg 1300m, the equicvalent of ~9kwh. The Lucid Air has 118kwh battery. So ballpark -20% which would still be ~600 miles.
Guessing they also had a favorable tailwind.
It takes only a little under 1 joule shove over a cliff or off a helicopter to drop a 2500kg car over 1300M. Gravity does most of the work at that point. The car is not likely to be useful after that, though. This was done in the movie the Blues Brothers to a Ford Pinto driven by Henry Gibson.
Not a lot of range for that trip, IMO.
As I’ve noted, r/t required for any kind of real world relevance in a “record.”
This is an idiotic design, particularly when EV’s are pitched as lower maintenance.
Not idiotic for VW service departments.
Was it the first thing attached to the vehicle during manufacture? Like the heater core of ICE vehicles?
It is getting so a prospective buyer of a car needs to know the maintenance schedule, how much each will cost, about when they should occur, and then PV that FC.
Tesla has added Grok to my car, ok.
Tried to open the glove box today. There isn’t a handle, normally I push the button to get the text prompt, tell it to open it, done. But today, Grok told me to go through menus on the screen. I tried twice more using different commands, the last time it told me it cannot open it, and I have to deal with menus. Fantastic.
Yup. I’ve heard of that.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Did I mention it is stupid?
Stupid = no physical handle.
Double stupid = voice control worked, let’s remove that.
Did it say “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”
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