Nissan isn’t really doing well. This isn’t exactly news to anyone who has been watching the company for the past, oh, decade or so, and it’s also not a problem that Nissan alone is having to deal with. Lots of carmakers aren’t doing so hot right now. Hell, look at pretty much everything Stellantis owns! Would anyone say that Chrysler is thriving right now? They make one damn car. How about Lancia? Maserati? Those companies are all pretty much hollow shells of the glory they once were, and there are some that would argue that Nissan is, if not quite there yet, heading down that path. But you know what the difference is?

Nissan may actually be worth saving.

Now look, I’m not trying to disparage a marque like, say, Lancia, which has decades of incredible and passionate and exuberant cars behind it, cars that you encounter parked at a car show and you look at it, and for a moment time stops, and it’s just you and that exquisite machine with a strange flag stuck on it.

Lancia has such an incredible and storied history – the first unibody car, the Lambda, incredible rally cars like the Stratos, accessible and usable but still wildly lovely and fun-to-drive cars like the Fulvia and the Delta Integrale, and so much more. But recent Lancia is all just re-badged city cars and hatchbacks. The Lancia everyone still thinks of is long gone. Lancia could stop making new cars tomorrow and it would hardly matter, because in every significant way “real” Lancias haven’t been in production for a long, long time.

Nissan isn’t like Lancia, though. Nissan deserves to be saved. It’s not like Nissan had a golden age that they’ve been riding the threadbare laurels of for decades; Nissan is a company that has proven, time and time again, that it can do something that may be one of the most wonderful things a carmaker can do: surprise us.

Just take a minute and think about this; I’m not talking about a carmaker that only makes “exciting” or exotic or whatever cars, like a Lotus or Bugatti or something, I mean a company that manages to crank out thousands and thousands of good, everyday cars and then, seemingly out of nowhere, comes up with something really special.

How many times has Nissan done that? Think about the Z-Car, for example. Around 1969, Nissan was mostly making economy sedans and pickup trucks, and then they came out with an affordable sports car that had the the look and feel of a Jaguar E-Type but with the advantage of being able to put more miles on the road than on the bed of a tow truck.

I suppose as far as surprises go, a sports car isn’t really a shocking one, but when Nissan does that, they tend to do it right. You could take the GT-R as another example of this; who was expecting 2007 Nissan, makers of minivans and Altimas and Sentras, to come up with something as potent and bonkers as the GT-R?

It’s hard to overestimate the impact of the GT-R. This was a car that cost a literal fraction of competing cars from Porsche and Ferrari and Lamborghini, and yet managed to beat them in so many ways. This is a car that started at under $100,000 and set Nurburgring records in stock form, with Porsche getting so bent out of shape about it that they accused Nissan of cheating. The GT-R changed the sports car world, and it came from a place no one expected.

Nissan built the GT-R. Just let that sink in a little. Nissan. And they also built the incredible Skyline GT-Rs that came before. NISSAN.

Nissan surprises in weirder ways, too. I’m not just talking about taking absurd styling risks in cars like the Juke – though it’s worth remembering Nissan absolutely did that, too – but I mean genuinely strange and wonderful and surprising things like Nissan’s whole Pike Factory experiment.

You remember the Pike cars, right? Nissan just decided, what the hell, let’s take some proven platforms and drivetrains and clothe them in deeply, delightfully weird bodies and interiors, and sell those cars as limited run “boutique cars.” And they were all amazing! Each one of these absurd little cars has become an icon in its own right, with all of the charm of dozens of classic iconic cars mixed together into one delicious car-shake.

Even better, they’re all actually usable cars! I know multiple people with Pike cars now, S-Cargos and Figaros, and yes, even me, with my Pao acting as my daily driver.

That little car has proven to be one of the most reliable cars I’ve ever owned, and that’s after hitting two deer in the damn thing. I love it. What other carmaker has done something like this, at any time? Made a whole sub-brand of affordable, usable, and reliable limited run idiosyncratically designed cars? They didn’t have to do this at all. They could have made one of these models, and it would have been amazing. But the Pike Factory was more than that, and I’m not sure any other mainstream carmaker has ever really matched that remarkable experiment.

Even after the Japanese Bubble era that likely was a big factor in making the Pike cars possible, Nissan still made surprises happen. Take the Murano Cross Cabriolet that we’ve just been having so much fun with:

 

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The CrossCab is a car that makes precisely zero sense; a two-door convertible version of a mass-market AWD crossover was not on any product planner’s radar until Nissan decided that this improbable thing should exist. I’d suspect that if you took all the money the CrossCab made Nissan and added $5 to that amount, you’d probably only have to borrow about $3 to $4 if you wanted to buy a Whopper with cheese. But that didn’t stop Nissan, because that’s what Nissan does.

Or, hell, I just remembered the Leaf! Tesla gets all the credit, but it’s worth remembering that Nissan was really the first to bring a modern, affordable practical electric car to market with the Leaf in 2010. Another surprise.

It’s not all that Nissan does, of course. These surprises and gleefully weird cars and world-beating sportscars just punctuate what they mostly do, the gleaming golden corn kernels in the healthy, solid stool of the company. What Nissan usually does is make admirably competent and unassuming cars. Remember our 375,000-mile ex-NYC taxi? That was a Nissan, and it proved to be shockingly reliable even with a CVT transmission everyone was sure would explode on us somewhere in the middle of America.

But it didn’t. In fact, that little NV200 (a great taxi, I might add — efficient and well-packaged — a far better design than the Crown Victoria) managed to get all the way across the continent with out any major mechanical issues whatsoever. After years and years of hard service as a taxi. It was the very definition of a workhorse, and fundamentally, that’s what Nissan makes.

Along the same lines, Nissan feels like the only company that still even pretends to give a brace of BMs about the low-end of the car market. While so many other carmakers are abandoning their entry-level options, Nissan just recently announced an all-new version of their third cheapest car (which is still cheaper than many carmaker’s cheapest car), the Sentra, and Nissan remains one of the very few carmakers in America to offer a new car starting at under $20,000, the Versa.

 

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[Ed Note: The 2009 5-speed Versa was insanely cheap and actually really good, as I show above. -DT]

They’ve always been like this (I’ve even brought it up before), making inexpensive cars that managed to retain some level of fun and dignity. That was practically the whole ethos of their former incarnation as Datsun, with dirt-cheap but fun and efficient cars like the Honey Bee:

…or the legendary B-210:

Some of these inexpensive cars were even genuinely interesting and happily strange in their own right, like this Cherry Coupé:

[Ed Note: This is not an exhaustive list. The 510, the Fairlady, the XTerra, the Frontier, the Titan — there are lots of great Nissans from the distant and recent past. Heck, even some modern Nissans aren’t bad, with quite a few coming in under $30K at a time when affordable cars are few and far between. -DT].

Nissan gives a shit about inexpensive cars still. It’s part of their DNA, and I think this is incredibly important. And I haven’t even really mentioned Nissan’s trucks or off-road vehicles, but those are a big factor, too.

I’m not under any illusions about Nissan. In fact, I’d never even thought of myself as a Nissan fan, generally, because I’m not really someone who gets enamored by brands, but more by individual cars themselves. But as I started to think about some of the significant cars I’ve interacted with positively this year – the NV200 taxi, the CrossCab, my Pao – I realized that they’re all Nissans, and all surprisingly and excitingly different, and have some really divergent characters and strengths.

Current Nissan is not in a great place. Other than the admirable fact that they offer some genuinely affordable options, their lineup isn’t a standout in any real way, and just based on the cars they currently offer, if they went away tomorrow, it would hardly matter, as there’s little they’re bringing to the table that isn’t already there, and often better. And their current miserable fortunes reflect this.

Lots of people seem to agree with this grim assessment. Take our pals over at The Old Site, for example. who quoted a Bloomberg report on the company:

“The automaker’s operating profit plunged last quarter by an alarming 99%, leading management to lower their outlook for the year ending in March by 12% to ¥500 billion ($3.5 billion). The company also trimmed its full-year sales target to 3.65 million units.

Equity investors are clearly concerned — Nissan’s shares are down 27% this year — and credit analysts are starting to pen reports with alarming headlines. S&P Global cut Nissan’s credit rating to junk in March of last year.”

Nissan’s premium brand, Infiniti, isn’t doing any better, as reported by Automotive News:

“Financial data obtained by Automotive News shows that Infiniti stores had an average net loss of $79,581 in the first nine months of 2024, compared with a profit of $421,169 a year earlier. Dealership return on sales fell to minus 0.3 percent in the first nine months, from 1.3 percent in 2023.”

If you prefer your doomsaying about Nissan in video form, there’s plenty of options there, too:

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All of this is being noticed by regular people, even Nissan fans, as well; this is from Reddit’s r/Nissan group, where one user summarizes Nissan’s plight with somber clarity:

“The vast majority of the line up is completely uninspiring. For example, the VQ v6 they use in most of their v6 powered models is 30 years old now. It’s showing it’s age, even with the various updates, the other manufacturers have better options. They have the wonderful VR series, but they’re only putting them in top line vehicles. They need to trickle that down into the lower ranges.

They have no viable hybrids, they aren’t even doing an eco-boost kinda thing using smaller engines with turbos for better economy and usually more fun to boot.”

Uninspiring. That kind of just sums it all up.

But here’s the thing: It doesn’t have to be that way. I don’t think I realized it until I sat down to actually write this, but I believe in Nissan. They’re a company that has proven themselves, time and time again, to not just deliver, but to deliver things we didn’t even realize we wanted or needed. Nissan fails plenty, sure, but I think that’s what made them great. They were a company that made practical, useful cars and yet still took the time to take risks, to try something unexpected, to fail, sure, but also sometimes to succeed, wildly. Or some mix of both.

Nissan is saving because I believe those qualities are still in there, somewhere, buried under forgettable crossovers and SUVs. I think a re-born Nissan could be one that treats lower-income buyers with dignity and respect and gives them honestly good and engaging options, and still sometimes pulls something wild and crazy out of their ass.

I want that Nissan back. That Nissan, if it really is still in there, deserves it.

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A prominent voice in the Make America Healthy Again movement is pushing for health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to make the topic of chemtrail conspiracy theories a federal priority, according to a report by KFF News.

KFF obtained a memo, written by MAHA influencer Gray Delany in July, presenting the topic to Calley Means, a White House health advisor. The memo lays out a series of unsubstantiated and far-fetched claims that academic researchers and federal agencies are secretively spreading toxic substances from airplanes, poisoning Americans and spurring large-scale weather events, such as the devastating flooding in Texas last summer.

“It is unconscionable that anyone should be allowed to spray known neurotoxins and environmental toxins over our nation’s citizens, their land, food and water supplies,” Delany writes in the memo.

Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, told KFF that the memo presents claims that are false and, in some cases, physically impossible. “That is a pretty shocking memo,” he said. “It doesn’t get more tinfoil hat. They really believe toxins are being sprayed.”

Delany ends the memo with recommendations for federal agencies: form a joint task force to address this alleged geoengineering, host a roundtable on the topic, include the topic in the MAHA commission report, and publicly address the health and environmental harms.

It remains unclear if Kennedy, Means, or federal agencies are following up Delany’s suggestions. Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Emily Hilliard told KFF that “HHS does not comment on future or potential policy decisions and task forces.”

However, one opportunity has already been missed: The MAHA Commission released its “Make Our Children Healthy Again” report on September 9, along with a strategy document. Neither document mentions any of the topics raised in Delany’s memo.

Kennedy’s agenda

Delany, a loyal follower of Kennedy, served as a staffer on the anti-vaccine activist’s failed presidential campaign. In June, Kennedy hired Delany to be the HHS’s director of MAHA implementation. But Delany was fired in early August, reportedly due to in-fighting with other Kennedy devotees.

According to reporting by MSNBC, the ouster occurred amid the fallout of Kennedy’s clumsy and widely decried cancellation of $500 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development. There was no preparation within HHS to communicate or explain the decision, and Delany tried to fill the void. But, Stefanie Spear, Kennedy’s top aide and longtime confidant, told Delany to step down. Delany ignored the order, producing a panned 181-page document for Steve Bannon’s podcast that Delany claimed was proof that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are harmful. Delany was fired the next day after Spear had “lost confidence” in him.

While Delany may no longer be in an official position to steer federal health agendas, Kennedy has made statements in line with Delany’s July memo.

In an April 28, 2025, appearance on Dr. Phil Primetime, an audience member asked Kennedy what he would do about “stratospheric aerosol injections,” which she claimed are “continuously peppered on us every day.” Kennedy responded: “It’s done, we think by DARPA [a research agency in the Department of Defense] and a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel. … I am going to do everything in my power to stop it. We’re bringing on somebody who is going to think only about that—find out who is doing it and holding them accountable.”

In 2023, Kennedy spoke with chemtrail activist Dane Wigington on a podcast and credited actor Woody Harrelson for making him to believe in chemtrails after watching contrails from a plane transform into clouds.

“I’ve looked up many times since then and seen that happening, and I don’t have a good explanation for it,” Kennedy said.

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Remember how we told you that Jeep had finally decided that their naming conventions for the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer were too damn confusing, and all their fancy SUVs would be Grand Wagoneers from now on? That was a good choice. Now it also seems that Jeep will stop trying to make the Wagoneer brand name happen, and go back to badging them as Jeeps, just like everyone called them, anyway. Jeep has also revealed some pricing and other details of their refreshed Grand Wagoneers, and I suppose I may as well tell you all about it.

The most interesting development out of these refreshed Wagoneers, now so Grand, is that they will feature “America’s first range-extended electric vehicle (REEV or EREV) application,” which the press release also notes will be “late availability.” That will be a big deal, beating Scout to the range-extended EV game, and I think it is one of the most promising types of drivetrains for near-future cars. This must mean that it’ll slot in before the delayed Ram Ramcharger.

There will also be a twin-turbo 3-liter Hurricane inline-six engine available as well, making 420 horsepower at 5,200 RPM, and 468 pound-feet of torque at 3,500 RPM. Do you want to know the compression ratio? It’s 10.4:1. It’ll take 7.5 quarts of oil, too!

Oh, and here’s what the likely slightly squishy engine cover will look like:

More interesting is the EREV version, which will use a 3.6-liter V6 coupled to a 130 kW generator. Electric motors will drive the wheels, powered by the V6, batteries, or both; this combination will provide 647 hp and 620 lb-ft of torque, which can shove the Grand Wagoneer from parked to 60 mph in 5 seconds. The range for this setup is estimated at 500 miles, quite impressive for a vehicle of this size.

Design-wise, the big change is an all-new face, which is a bit taller and more squared-off, and now eliminates chrome. In place of chrome for bling is light, as the traditional Jeep seven-slot grille (which doesn’t actually seem to be a real grille; all the air intake looks to come from the actual, large trapezoidal grille below) is now illuminated. The upper part of the seven slots extends into some DRLs, which are combined with some rotated-T-shaped lamps below, which I suspect house the indicators as well.

The slots read more toothy than slots, really, but the overall look isn’t bad, and I suppose an improvement over the outgoing Wagoneer, which had a face like this:

Jeep seems to be really proud to get rid of chrome; the press release gives this absence a whole paragraph:

“One of the most significant design shifts is the introduction of a chrome-free exterior, a first for Grand Wagoneer. The new Grand Wagoneer embraces a more refined and modern palette. As the design team embraced more sustainable materials and processes, the shift to ”no chrome” marks a bold move toward a cleaner, more responsible and modern expression of luxury.”

There’s also no brass on the SUV, but I don’t see them making a big deal of that.

The rear now has full-width taillights as well, since we’re well into the Era of The Universal Heckblende, and the overall look does seem a bit cleaner and more refined. I think I like the contrasting color roof as well.

Interiors seem quite premium and well-appointed, with “Nappa leather with Axis II perforation,” whatever the hell that is. There are enhanced interior packages that include

“For those seeking elevated appointments, the Limited Reserve features more amenities, including a 19-speaker McIntosh audio system, tri-pane sunroof, power steps and HUD”

and, if 19 speakers just isn’t enough for your discerning ear-palates, then you want the Summit trim with

“a state-of-the-art 23-speaker McIntosh audio system, ventilated rear seating, an integrated front console cooler, a front passenger display and a sophisticated black appearance.”

You can get three rows in the Grand Wagoneer, should you need to haul around seven or eight people, and cargo space looks pretty cavernous with all the seats folded down:

By the numbers, the cargo space breaks down like this:

Cargo volume behind first-row seats, cu. ft. (cu. m) 116.7 (3.3)

Cargo volume behind second-row seats cu. ft. (cu. m) 70.8 (2.0)

Cargo volume behind third-row seats cu. ft. (cu. m) 27.9 (0.8) Grand Wagoneer / 42.6 (1.2) Grand Wagoneer L

While there are plenty of screens (even one on the passenger side) and a nice big HUD and all that, there seems to be plenty of physical controls, which is nice. Also, there’s a generous number of USB ports (A and C) and even an HDMI port there? I guess to plug in your Wii U or Blu-Ray player?

If you want to tow with a Grand Wagoneer, you’re in luck! These can pull pretty massive trailers: the shorter 123″ wheelbase ones with 2WD can tow 6,210 pounds, and 4WD ones can tow 6,030 pounds with the 3.55 axle ratio or a massive 10,000 pounds with the 3.92 ratio axle.

The 130″ wheelbase 2WD models can pull 5,960 pounds, and the 4WD ones can tow 5,770 pounds with the 3.55 axle ratio or 9,860 pounds with the 3.92 ratio axle.

Are you planning to off-road a Grand Wagoneer? Really? Okay, if you say so. Here’s some relevant information about that:

Approach Angle (degrees)

21.4 — standard suspension

25.2 — air suspension (Off Road 2)

Ramp Breakover Angle (degrees)

18.7 — standard suspension

22.1 — air suspension (Off Road 2)

Departure Angle (degrees)

21.2 — standard suspension

23.9 — air suspension (Off Road 2)

Be careful with the fancy paint and all that expensive-looking lighting if you do that, though.

These new Grand Wagoneers will start at $62,145 for the base 4×2, $65,145 for the 4×4, and the long wheelbase ones start at $65,145 and $68,145 for the 4×4.

The “Limited Altitude” trim is 4×4 only and is  $71,140,  $74,140 for the longer one. The Summit Obsidian trim is $93,390, and $96,390 if you want the extra length.

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Health officials in South Carolina are warning that the highly infectious measles virus is spreading undetected in communities in the northern part of the state, specifically Spartanburg and Greenville counties.

Last week, officials in Greenville identified an eighth measles case that is potentially linked to the outbreak. Seven outbreak cases had been confirmed since September 25 in neighboring Spartanburg, where transmission was identified in two schools: Fairforest Elementary and Global Academy, a public charter school.

Across those two schools, at least 153 unvaccinated children were exposed to the virus and have been put in a 21-day quarantine, during which they are barred from attending school, state officials said in a press conference. Twenty-one days is the maximum incubation period, spanning from when a person is exposed to when they would develop a rash if infected.

It's unclear how the latest case in Greenville became infected with the virus and how they may link to the nearby Spartanburg cases.

"What this case tells us is that there is active, unrecognized community transmission of measles occurring in the Upstate [northern region of South Carolina], which makes it vital to ensure that the public have received their measles vaccinations," the South Carolina Department of Public Health said in an announcement.

The two recommended doses of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine are about 97 percent effective at blocking the infection, and that protection is considered lifelong. Without that protection, the virus is extremely contagious, infecting 90 percent of unvaccinated people who are exposed. The virus spreads easily through the air, lingering in the airspace of a room for up to two hours after an infected person has left.

State and national trends

According to state data, both counties linked to the outbreak have low vaccination rates among school children in the 2024–2025 school year. Spartanburg's immunization rate is 90 percent, and Greenville's is 92.4 percent, both well below the target of 95 percent that experts say is needed to prevent community spread.

Spartanburg has the highest rate of religious vaccination exemptions among students in the state, at 8.2 percent. That means that even if all other students get their recommended vaccinations, they would still only have vaccine coverage of 91.8 percent. Neighboring Greenville has a religious vaccination exemption rate of 5.3 percent, with a max of 94.7 percent.

In the past five years, vaccination rates in South Carolina have slipped from over 95 percent to 93.7 percent, while religious exemptions have risen. Both trends have played out across the country as anti-vaccine rhetoric, misinformation, and disinformation have taken hold. The latest data indicates that the MMR vaccination coverage for US kindergartners was just 92.5 percent in the 2024–2025 school year, down from 95.2 percent in 2019–2020. Non-medical exemptions are now at 3.4 percent, an all-time high.

Relatedly, the US is experiencing its highest measles case count in 33 years, stretching several years past when the virus was declared eliminated from the US in 2000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tallied 1,563 confirmed cases from 41 states this year. Most of the cases are linked to the 44 identified outbreaks. The largest so far occurred in Texas, which has reported 803 cases this year.

Three people, including two previously healthy school-aged children, have died of measles in the US this year.

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Owners of some Jeep Wrangler 4xe hybrids have been left stranded after installing an over-the-air software update this weekend. The automaker pushed out a telematics update for the Uconnect infotainment system that evidently wasn't ready, resulting in cars losing power while driving and then becoming stranded.

Stranded Jeep owners have been detailing their experiences in forum and Reddit posts, as well as on YouTube. The buggy update doesn't appear to brick the car immediately. Instead, the failure appears to occur while driving—a far more serious problem. For some, this happened close to home and at low speed, but others claim to have experienced a powertrain failure at highway speeds.

Jeep pulled the update after reports of problems, but the software had already downloaded to many owners' cars by then. A member of Stellantis' social engagement team told 4xe owners at a Jeep forum to ignore the update pop-up if they haven't installed it yet.

Owners were also advised to avoid using either hybrid or electric modes if they had updated their 4xe and not already suffered a powertrain failure. Yesterday, Jeep pushed out a fix.

As Crowdstrike showed last year, Friday afternoons are a bad time to push out a software update. Now Stellantis has learned that lesson, too. Ars has reached out to Stellantis, and we'll update this post if we get a reply.

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Hello, dashing readers! As you may be aware, today is Indigenous Peoples Day in many states, Columbus Day in others, but whatever you’re choosing to pretend to recall and carefully reflect on, it’s a day off. And days off are important, as we need to let our writers brains marinate and re-absorb their creative juices, gels, and, occasionally, custards. So, yes, we’re not going to have the full buffet of stories today, but to let you know we still care, here’s a fascinating concept car named Columbus for you to consider.

Columbus was an Italdesign concept from 1992, and the initial goal of the project was to make a “sailing ship for dry land” because, of course, that’s what everyone was clamoring for. I bet people really wanted more hardtack and salt pork in their diets, too.

The result was something really remarkable, and, even more so, bonkers. Italdesign envisioned Columbus as being something ideal for “the urban scenarios of the United States,” though I think if anything it would have excelled in the non-urban scenarios of the United States, as this thing would make a fantastic long-distance, across-America road trip machine. I mean, look at it:

It’s sort of like a smaller tour bus, in a way; the driver sat centrally up high in the front, oddly removed from the six (expandable to eight) passengers behind. The layout sort of suggests a hired driver as opposed to, say, a parent or something, seeing as how they’re sort of removed from the greater population of the van. But maybe not; there’s actually three seats on the “upper” deck, so the driver isn’t really that alone:

Look at the layout of this thing! That’s a BMW V12 mounted transversely in the middle there, driving all four wheels. The rear wheels are capable of turning as well (up to 15°) a quality it shares with some of the seats, which are Captain’s chairs and capable of turning as well.

As you can see, everything is very early ’90s swanky, and I can imagine that beige carpet getting nice and filthy over less time than you’d likely think.

The exterior design is a little clunky, being a sort of merging of two very ’90s smooth, biomorphic, river-rock-eroded masses, but it sort of works in it own odd way.

It’s a pretty massive beast; it’s no wonder Italdesign was targeting this at the American market. Something this size in Europe would probably require zoning permits and landscaping.

It tends to look oddest in profile, where it feels like a sleek, almost sporty minivan got fused with a sort of fastback, kind of. Or maybe it was a van that was melted and stretched, kind of like those ’70s carnival prize melted and stretched soda bottles.

The front also has the face of a sort of grimacing or leering snake?

I kind of love this ridiculous thing, and while I couldn’t really picture anyone owning one, I could imagine a world where a family that normally had little city cars would rent one of these for a big road trip. In that context, they kind of make sense!

Anyway, I hope there’s lots of you out there with the day off, and I hope it’s fantastic. We’ll be back in full force tomorrow!

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