For more than 20 years, a 1989 Merkur XR4Ti was my everyday driver. I still regard it as the best car I’ve ever owned. If Hemmings printed an article or even a single word about Merkur in general and the XR4Ti in particular, I’m sorry to have missed it. Also, I won’t be renewing my subscription. I also wish Hemmings would recognize that EVs are essentially coal-powered vehicles and therefore fundamentally filthy.
William Howard
Chesterfield, Missouri
Sorry to see you go Mr. Howard, you would’ve enjoyed the Classic Import Profile about the 1988-’89 Merkur Scorpio that Mark McCourt wrote for this issue.
Some of us at Hemmings have doubts about EVs too, but the, “they’re all coal powered” argument is inaccurate. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, coal accounts for 16 percent of electricity generation in the U.S. That puts it in fourth place behind: natural gas, 43 percent; renewables (wind, hydro, solar, etc.), 21.4 percent; and nuclear, 18.6 percent.
David LaChance’s column about his four-season-driven Miata in the March issue beckoned my response. Because I was newly married, my beloved ’71 Fiat 124 Spyder could not be stored for the winter. Replete with the cheapest retread snow tires and a garden spade roped to the
