So a car that uses 30kwh a day would cost about $180 a month to fuel. I don't even know what I pay here, but I'm guessing it isn't cheap.

Amen brother. This is a beautiful car other than the electric-razor face, but it needs a stick for me to enjoy driving it.

There must be some magic involved, the kind that people who think electric cars are the answer believe in.

If a single charge can power an average home for three days, does that mean that charging your car once a day will quadruple your electricity consumption?

Back in the days when leases were uncommon, exotic car listings were full of five to ten year old Ferraris with less than 5,000 miles. I've met plenty of people that owned them and kept them locked up because they weren't that great to drive, the maintenance was comically expensive, and they depreciated like stones if…

That was my first thought too.

I'm bored shitless with Porsche reviews, but this was a great article. Almost, almost, made me want to spend another day in Charlottesville. When I do, I will probably check out the BBQ Exchange, get into trouble with rednecks, and talk to at least one revenuer.

Who gives a shit what cops want to hear? The point of this list seems to be that it doesn't matter what you say and they've forgotten that they are our fucking paid servants rather than an all-powerful extortion ring. Make them as miserable as possible and then give them a thought when their employee unions contribute…

Lancia Beta High Performance Estate

The number of people here that love their cages is the most disturbing element of this for me.

While it is possible that there were a number of Rabbit diesels that recorded high mileages, I knew plenty of people who broke a sweat every time they heard an odd noise from their 2nd or 3rd replacement engine as soon as the warranty period ended. There were quite a few of these rotting in driveways, dead before they…

There was lots of earlier FWD Cord L29 in the Traction Avant's layout, but the Traction Avant did beat the Cord 810 to combining FWD with independent front suspension. Citroen clearly liked American cars, seeing as he combined mechanical elements of a bunch of them with stretched and smooshed Ford styling.

Agreed. Also, Bentley manuals are excellent in my experience. I had one for my E30 and only found it less than useful twice in a dozen or so years.

Thank God I'm no longer a New Yorker. Times Square is a pedestrian zone now? I left Manhattan almost ten years ago and I've only been back once since. That was about 8 years ago. Maybe I'll check back in another 8 and see if they've come to their senses.

Sorry about that.

The TDI was a POS. Still driving the 2012 A6, which leased for not all that much more than the 30K cheaper Jetta TDI wagon, which makes me wonder about residuals. The Jetta TDI leased for more than two and a half times as much as a $6K cheaper Honda, which basically means that VWs are the disposable diapers of the…

I haven't been in the current Fit, but the 2007-2008 one was made of better stuff and with more care. The Versa is Rubbermaid and the earlier Yaris was too flawed ergonomically. I'd at least try a new Yaris before assuming it is worse than a Golf though.

I also like where the power window and mirror controls are. The handbrake is on the driver's side in our cars. Right below the display is a twist/tilt/push knob. Maybe it isn't called MMI like the one in my company A6, but it seems to function similarly while not having a wrist rest.

Like the fiddly steering wheel buttons, the too-low HVAC controls, the horizontal accessory switches at the base of the center stack where they're neither convenient nor safe from getting gummed-up with settling debris, or do you mean the full-concentration-demanding MMI joystick? I kid, but the handbrake is about the…

I sat in a Golf R when shopping for a diesel wagon for work. I did not think the interior represented much of a bargain in light of the window sticker, and other cars that I drove that day were a 2012 Audi A6, a 2007 Honda Civic Si, and a 2012 VW Jetta TDi wagon. The seats were more supportive than the ones in my…