alex, being in california, is all in on 'green' vehicles despite driving a durango and towing 8000lb trailers up mountains, lol.

i've really become discouraged by his reviews of late.

he's all enamored by this mirai which is USELESS to 99% of the country/world.

 

yes, if you have hydrogen nearby and since toyota is pretty much giving it away, it made sense for you. for almost everyone else? not so much.



D.O.A.

they'll probably "sell" (give away) some to governments so they can tout their green creds.

 

Alex has a leased Hyundai Fuel Cell too...

 

I'll agree that the Mirai is all but useless under present conditions.....but why is it useless? Because we have allowed it to be that way (or become that way) instead of getting to work on a hydrogen-supply-infrastructure. ANY vehicle will become useless if one cannot provide energy for it.

 

I look at it this way. I got to drive a largely hand made car that reportedly cost Toyota three times more to make than each car’s MSRP largely on their dime (my lease payments were less than the fuel allowance). Folly or not, that’s up to Toyota and their R&D budget to decide, I got to drive a reasonably nice car largely for free essentially as part of a Toyota R&D project. And I saved hundreds of driving hours with HOV lane access. So yeah, it was a pretty good deal for me.

https://global.toyota/en/detail/6402089

 

Great post! If people in United States want to be poor, out of work and have no future...then the politicians should advocate the future is to be run on just batteries....if people think that 70 million cars a year sold worldwide will be all batteries....then need some electrical stimulation to the brain to get their head straightened out...

You will have Youngstown OH all across America...

 

Let me get this straight. Improving the grid to accommodate more EVs that's no bueno but building a $trillion+ infrastructure so we can propel cars with hydrogen primarily derived from fossil fuel, better get to work on that lovely plan.

 

Motorweek is weird to watch without John Davis.

 

I wonder if John Davis is stepping back a bit these days? For a short review those two guys did a good job. They've both been on MW for a while.

 

He has such a great voice....He owns the oddest vehicle too

 

I like his laid back conversational tone vs. some of the over the top, shouting, clickbait-ish approaches you see these days.

 

You would not see all that silly nonsense if there was no you tube. Motorweek is/was real journalism....all the You Tube stuff is based on their subscriber demos that they are pandering to.....printed stuff and cable stuff was the real deal

The dumbest crap ever is when they make silly faces for the main screen shot

 

^^^^^ John Davis is a class act. I've met him and talked with him, several times, at some of the auto shows, although I can't really call him a friend or a close-colleague. Still, I like his style, his ease of talking/conversation, his objectivity, and his devotion to the business of auto-reviews that he would stay in that business so long. True, his reviews aren't as long or detailed as, say, those of Alex Dykes, but part of that is because of the way the Motorweek show is set up.....he only gets about 5-6 minutes for each vehicle he reviews, because they also fit in Pat Goss (the Show's Technician), the latest auto-news from the industry, and several other stories in the half-hour segment. If John had the half-hour all to himself, like Alex does in his videos, things would probably be different.

 

ok i think we can do without turning this thread into a debate about how bad youtube is. it only has billions of users after all.

 

I am very sorry. I had just responded to the MotorWeek comment that JD was missing. The someone mentioned they didn’t like click bait...

Anyways....the MW video was pretty positive.