Nissan Rogue Plug-in Hybrid costs $10K more than the Rogue Hybrid, but Nissan dealers offer up to $6.5K back.

We celebrate our 20th year online and as a YouTube channel!

 TheFamilyCar.com focuses on vehicle features important to families, such as
comfort, safety, accessories, affordability, sustainability, and pet-friendliness.


Volvo: The Family Car

TheFamilyCar.com is watching Volvo USA's family car roadtriping journey.

TheFamilyCar.com

TheFamilyCar.com celebrates our 20th year online
and as a YouTube channel! We invite you to check out other websites of our automotive group.

Hummer EV

The EV credits have ended but we are happy to announce sales of used Hummer EVs are still strong.


Hyundai Ioniq5 EV

This Ioniq5 EV from Hyundai looks good in any color and travels over 300 miles on a charge.

Volvo EX 90 EV


The Volvo EX 90 EV SUV can seat seven and can fast charge its batteries. It offers long range for family road trips.




Toyota BZ4X Now BZ

The BZ EV debuted as Toyota's BZ4X, as explained by the affiable Michigander, Rodney Curtis.



Buzz: VW EV van

Volkswagon's EV minibus, the idBuzz, is so happy-looking, summer EV journey's are natural VW's campaign, shot on California's state park beaches accentuates.

BMW iX EV

The BMW iX EV, with its 400V fast charging and the 309 mile range, is no longer being made. The maker's new iX3 is its replacement and is a grest reason to consider a BMW electric vehicle with iconic beaver-teeth grill.



Carguy EVs at Bay

Each year at a California automotive journalist's event called Best of the Bay the gathered vote for car of the year in varied categories. 2025's event all the votes went for EVs!







Carguy Drives correspondent Keith Turner asks fundamental questions about Chevy's 2026 Equinox EV LT 2,
and examines the stunning 2026 Kia EV9 GT-Line.






"A Song in a Car in Los Angeles" by a French group to watch,
featuring Lohann Colasseau, Alexandre Villquin, and Pierre Fonteneau.



Fun Lookbacks - Classic Video


We toured the 2018 Land Rover Discovery Td6 through the City Of Industry. There’s a city called Industry? Indeed. It is a crescent of warehouses east of East LA. The dynamic diesel Discovery Td6 offered us a comfy ride through it.


We whisked effortlessly along freeways crossing Los Angeles within the 400-horsepower 2018 Cadillac CT6 with its autonomous Super Cruise system engaged, keeping us centered between the white lines and away from darting vehicles.


The animated Rubberneck family opens this 2017 video report from the Detroit Auto Show (North American International Auto Show, NAIAS), where Ford's executives presented a vision of autonomous driving tech decreasing vehicle injuries and fatalities.


The 2016 Chrysler Pacifica is packed with family- and eco-friendly features, such as three-piece panoramic sunroof, powerful vacuum to keep cookie crumbs at bay, and it can run on electric-only power for up to 33 miles per charge.


Discussions and displays at the 2016 LA Auto Show, revealed to TheFamilyCar and GreenFamilyCar correspondents that the autonomous vehicle age has already dawned, raising questions about whether we are ready for to embrace it.


The founder of the Advanced Sustainability Institute, Michael Boehm, test drives BMW’s electric i3 around downtown Los Angeles during the 2013 LA Auto Show. The i3 EV has been designed from scratch for maximim sustainability.


Wild New Vid View - Rubbernecks Take A Roadtrip

The Rubbernecks are The Family Car mascot family. With Joanne (Jo) Rubberneck behind the wheel, rolling along the open road can get animated. Though Charles (Chuck) Rubberneck handles roadtrip navigation between reading his newspapers and journals, he prefers his collection of vintage maps to mapping apps. Riding in the back seat, daughter Skye's app searches fill in news and location information that her father's analog sources lack. Beside her, the family's dog, Mocha, is the color of coffee with cream and is as smart as a Jack Russell, which he (being a mutt) may be a cross with, though he believes himself to be a Golden Retriever. In the attic of the traveling house, Comfy the Cat is always up to something, while most often comfortably nestled in her basket bed. In the Rubberneck vehicle's kitchen, young Wyatt is stirring up a recipe he wants to share with his family once their day's roadtrip has ended. He is the engineering lad who helped get the family's home on wheels upgraded with solar panels, battery-filled-chassis, and electric motor. Click the image above to roadtrip with The Rubbernecks. Remember to scroll right to see more!



Family Car Matriarch - Teacher Shares Reading Recovery Intro

For many years, the Ulysses S. Grant elementary school in Ferndale, Michigan, was a focus of a U.S. Justice Department desegregation lawsuit. Government lawyers found that it had, in fact, been built to segregate the school district's black children from white children. After the school district was desegregated, Mrs. Curtis was a first grade teacher at Grant, where she evolved her focus to provide one-on-one reading facilitation to first grade students who tested at the lowest reading skill level of their class, using the highly effective "Reading Recovery" tutoring methodology for Grant students. Mrs. Curtis entered her retirement years traveling to various elementary schools in Detroit in her favorite vehicle to help additional first graders learn to comprehend the English language via Reading Recovery techniques, as she does in one of our favorite videos.



Young Wyatt Rubberneck - Exposing the Equation

The Rubbernecks took to the road due to necessity in 2008, but young Wyatt Rubberneck thrived on the many opportunities that the varied places his family visited, and the variety of people they met, offered him to learn about life, and about himself. He knows his Einstein theories and realizes he is no Einstein, but still is inclined to puzzle about the greatest physicist's musings. In fact, he is thinking at this moment about a statement of Einstein's, "We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness." Early on in their voyaging, Wyatt learned to cook. Now he prepares a veggie spaghetti sauce with a medley of veg he picked up at a farmer's market. He is at work on an equation to help combat the global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. He wants to do his part to help humanity create a shared sustainable human occupation on the planet, and enjoy zero-emission EV roadtrips!

Thanks for visiting The Family Car! We look forward to welcoming you back soon.


A recent Volvo Car USA advertising series was called The Family Car: An American Love Story. It featured Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation, Severence)





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