And for writing down his thoughts in a journal. The door of the cell opens and in walks O'Brien, the Inner Party member from whom Winston got The Book.

"They got you, too!" Winston exclaims.

"They got me a long time ago," replies O'Brien – who motions to the guard behind him. Winston is then taken to Room 101 – to be tortured by O'Brien.

Well, they just got Subaru, too.

It has committed the crime of not "electrifying" its lineup fast enough. Or even at all. Subaru is one of the few car manufacturers that does not have an EV in its U.S. model lineup. Instead, it has models that sell really well – like the Crosstrek, which just happens to be the only remaining small crossover you can still buy with a manual transmission. It is the antitheses of everything EV. It is affordable – $23,645 to start. Thousands less than the least-expensive EVs, the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Bolt – neither of which can travel almost 500 highway miles, as the little Soobie can.

It does not require doling out "incentives" to persuade people to buy it. They line up to buy it – especially with the manual transmission, which is a feature no EV offers but which many people want because it makes driving more involving. And because it gives them more control over how their vehicle drives.

Most fundamentally, it gives them something that isn't an EV. It is precisely why they buy models like the Çrosstrek. And they have bought a lot of them.

How many?

How about 27,522  . . . over the past eight weeks.