Land Rover and Jeep are the original go-anywhere brands and the brands most resistant to losing sight of their hard-core mission. Unfortunately this focus can’t shelter them from the need to meet evermore stringent emissions and fuel economy standards. What’s an iconic sub-brand like Range Rover to do? Dress up a small cross over in high-fashion bling for the urban set. This presents today’s question: does the Evoque dilute the off-road brand or is it an extension into uncharted waters?
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oldyak - Hey..everyone else has sucked at the teat of the U.S. government. Give Hyundai a chance to suckle.
DeadWeight - You could sell a 1994 Civic EX all day long today. I owned one, and it was superior in nearly every way to the POS that now wears its namesake.
-Nate - Indeed ; Or ” I always think to myself why would anybody go out of their way to save one of those, or why waste all that money to restore an ordinary car.” . I like...
Summicron - Not a lot of rebar in Carthaginian docks and pilings. It’s a little different for skyscrapers, like the Ping’an Finance...
bill mcgee - The similar model I thought was cool was the smaller , van type version- may have been a Mitsu Expo IIRC .Unclear what the differences are between...
DeadWeight - If gas rises to $5 a gallon and beyond, the U.S. Economy is going to get pummeled just as it was in 2008 (arguably, more so, since the economic foundation...
jimbob457 - Good for the fuel cell, hah,hah. Here in the USA we use solar panels and batteries for remote location power back up and nuclear...
NMGOM - jpolicke….. Audi is suggesting H2 as an ICE fuel, but packed in a very clever way. Let’s just use carbon as the packing atom,...
NMGOM - gslippy…. Can’t say for sure, but I doubt that the Hyundai Fuel Cell cars would use LH2. Seems that just regular compressed GH2...
NMGOM - Hummer…. Oh, you mean like the Hoover Dam and Social Security? ———— 8212;