commentary

essays & opinion

Essays and opinion pieces from the moblr team on cars, design, and the road ahead.

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  Buying a New Car for the Life We Live or the Life We Imagine?

  When practicality challenges our emotional connection to cars.

  by Patrick Hong
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  Is Kia Finally Shedding Its Old Reputation?

  Kia’s long image reset

  by Patrick Hong
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  When the Car Does Everything, What’s Left for the Driver?

  How technology may be changing the joy of driving.

  by Patrick Hong
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  I Drove a Toyota Mirai for a Week

  A week with Toyota’s hydrogen sedan - Hydrogen’s Problem Isn’t the Car.

  by Patrick Hong
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  The Reynolds Ratio: 8.446:1 (or thereabouts)

  With energy costs sky high, how can you tell if a gas car, a hybrid or an EV, is cheaper per mile?

  by Kim Reynolds
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  The Lucid Lunacy of Ferrari’s Luce

  Did Giorgetto Giugiaro already design a better Italian 4-door EV exotic?

  by Kim Reynolds
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  The Model S and Me

  Tesla sunsets the car that started it all

  by Kim Reynolds