Pricing feels like a missed opportunity.

These screens are the reason why I haven’t bought an RS5. They’re just plain ugly. Same reason we’ve stayed with an earlier Q5 for my wife. I kept thinking they’d update and integrate it like in the Q3, etc. but noooooo.

This all started with the terrible job LR did when they introduced the Range Rover. They didn’t brand it a Land Rover. They always referred to it as a Range Rover. This created such confusion over time that most consumers thought they were two different companies. They did it better with the launch of Discovery but by…

Definitely gives off Aston Martin SUV vibes.

Derp. This is not going to end well. I would have thought the smarter move would have been to have both and let the consumer decide. Or have both and gradually fade the other out as their new system gains popularity and stability.

RS4 Avant

I smell retrofit.....

Had a green one in college.

Much like a “murder” of blackbirds, I believe a “nightmare” of Karens is the correct nomenclature of a group of said Karens.

Beautiful and enticing car. The company I worked for as a junior in the late 80's had the Maserati account.

I’ve had to good fortune to ride that track in both a bus and a vehicle driven by one of their test pilots (circa the year that photo was taken, fyi). One of the test pilots favorite trick is to hit the wall at speed and remove their hands from the wheel to freak out their passengers.

The fact that diesel is much cheaper to produce than gasoline, yet much more expensive at the pump is maddening. I get refining capacity has shifted to prioritize gas over diesel, but still....this sucks.

Saturn didn’t fail with this pricing strategy. At all. Saturn fail due to GM infighting which ultimately walked back a lot of the principles they were founded on and forced them to sell homogenized, shit vehicles shared/sourced by other GM marques.

Tom, I’m sending my dad your way. He’s interested.

I still ask the question of why do we need this? If you sit in the driver’s seat you need to drive the car. If you want to be a passenger, carpool.

EV conversion ftw.

Is it too much to ask that people, actual people, drive their own damn cars?

1st Gear: I understand the trend. So long as the services being subscribed are truly optional, and not basic (historically free) functions of the car, that’s fine. People already subscribe to Sirius XM, or not.

And people who ARE driving are targets.

The wires are limb risers, not tie downs.