In another few years we’ll be able to tell Tesla owners by their “ample girth”.  Those “McDonalds stops” every 150 miles really add up....

People underestimate how much those ‘quick little stops’ add to the elapsed time. If you spend a lot of time on the road? You quickly realize that too many stops turns a 600 mile one-day jaunt into a two day, hotel stay,, extra meals, extra everything mess.

Prevailing speeds in Wyoming, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, Montana??? 85 MPH.

you know that, I know that, but you’ve got to think like the average car owner and not someone whose goal is to own a BEV. The average person has something that works, they can rely on it, and rely on the infrastructure that has existed to support it for decades. Any kind of uncertainty like range anxiety (real or…

I lived in LA for 2 years with a manual. As long as it’s not a super heavy race clutch, you are fine. Gives you something to do while stuck in traffic, and is way more fun once you are out of it.

Eh.  Lots of us don’t mind sticks in traffic.  I prefer their crawl speeds and one-foot driving over autos a lot of the time.  

my Scion FR-S has this issue. easily solved by just not pulling up all the way to lights if im there first

Where the hell is anyone finding a $5,000 128i with a MANUAL?

Clutch replacement is easy-peasy. No way I’d pay this guy $1k to swap-out a clutch I could knock-out on a Saturday morning.

Not because the roads were hard to drive, but because nobody wanted to damage their $50k truck’s paint job.

That’s fair.

But when you go inside the house you turn around to look at the E34, and you don't with the G30.

Unless you’re a street racer, that’s a moot point.

It’s also roughly the same size as the current 3 series, maybe even a bit smaller.

Yeah but then the cars are always whining about it. 

And yet, Dodge does not require people who purchased their cars with the supercharger option to also purchase a subscription to use that option

Fun fact: gold has about the same density as tungsten, 19.3 kg/L.

Everything you wrote about what Cadillac should be sums up the Escalade.

This is what a Cadillac is:

After the interview, the guy calls Lisa and leaves her a message,