The Allroad is anything but practical. Reliability nightmare.

Original sin: handing the keys of your Ferrari to a valet.

This looks like a well planned “leak”. It’s almost as if the “cameraman” staged along a preplanned route and knew exactly when to pull the camera out and start recording. Keep in mind, Tesla does zero traditional marketing; relying instead entirely on social media and word of mouth.

Remember how terrible the Honda team was before the marque left the series last time? and how Ross Brawn handily took the championship just the following year?

A self-driving future is a ambulance chaser’s wet dream.

You’re thinking of the old pre-spindle grill Lexus. The current Lexus is clearly aimed at a younger set. As for strategy of product placement, if their aim is to desensitize the masses to the controversial grill, it might work to some degree. Back when most cars were boxy, it was the rounded ones that were…

I’d like to see them move to thermoplastics or composites (especially for the bed box). But that’s probably not so good for the environment.

Irrelevant content.

Flew recently from LAX to CVG with several 2" x 2" Purell wipes in my computer bag. No issues whatsoever getting through TSA.

For a brand to grow it needs to grow its audience. It looks like in going after new and younger customers, they alienated the old faithful. BMW went through the same thing under Bangle’s tenure.

They don’t rely entirely on hearing (certain species rely on it more than others). Vision plays an important role also. The example mentioned in that NatGeo video is NOT a great horned owl. With poor vision, his success rate will be reduced.

Why? because these morons are not interested in driving. All they care about is the look of the car (like a manga illustration). And being stared at as they drive at the only speed they could and knew how: slow. Because they didn’t get enough attention as a child.

Look like a youngster. Much smaller than the one I saw in suburbs of Vegas several years ago, which was big enough to make the street light it landed on to sway. Likely going to be okay? I hope so. Busted eye to a bird of prey is pretty much a death sentence.

You know what this is all about right? A political stunt to appeal to the wealthy and green [i.e. Hollywood] donors.

And done with this modeling tool:

Fast cars are also more sexy and newsworthy. The Bullit has that going for it as well as being “real”.

Not just lame, it’s unethical. Why? because they are seeking to profit off of another business entities intellectual property. I understand there are licensing costs for them, but that cost should be figured into the cost of each vehicle they sell. For as much as each BMW costs, they can’t possibly say the sale price…

Since when are employee departures always due to firing?

Castrator.

And Mazda has been doing this like... forever?