Eh. So they cancelled a bunch of models in 2023 and some of the sales carried over to 2024. This feels like a natural consequence of all the “Stellantis dealer inventory is 2x national average” articles we were reading over the summer.

Apparently, the number of cars that cost less than $25,000 new dropped from 45 models in 2019 to just 11 this year. The Wall Street Journal reports. That is a wild drop in just 5 years.

They could have transitioned the Cayenne and Panamera first, before trying it with the sports cars.

Both are ultimately limited by traction/tires. You can toss 10k hp in there but without some silly slicks it’s not going to do much.

Not that I’m aware of - the menu only asks you the size of the rim and the type of tire and it uses that to create the notification setpoints for the TPMS. So technically it is not asking what size tire you put on the rim. Luckily the math works well on the cayenne , I went down an inch on the rims and then up on the…

And that wiper. It’s cartoonist big and still doesn’t even cover the windshield. 2 wipers have worked, liked forever.

Good advice.

No offense intended, but your Hyundai Sante Fe Limited is neither a luxury vehicle nor an EV. My point is that both come with higher (initial) depreciation and combined it can get really high. I personally would not buy a new luxury EV for exactly these depreciation reasons. Let’s go through it.

This is rental car insurance, you cannot have a rental car market if the owner is not insured for whatever the renter might do. However, the insurance will have the right to recover the settlement from the renter, so the driver is (rightfully) going to pay a lot of money here.

Agreed, crushing cars is political despot crap:

I agree, it is both, plus we should also just consider that the Model-S is getting OLD as a body style.

Yes, I understand that, let’s call it a ‘premium’ instead of a markup if that helps. MSRP in 2022 was $140K, for the same car new now it is $108K (or less). We can take one of two views:

While it is fun to blame this all on Elon hate, this is explainable without and EV buyers should beware, resale values are not great:

This is not about ICE vs. EV. This is about building the fastest road racing equivalent vehicle.

Just waiting for the day that Jalop gets a Headline for an article correct...

I think we need to also point out how much production volumes have ramped since the C8 launch and compared to the C7. Old timers can whine about how the C8 isn’t a real corvette, doesn’t have a manual, the looks are polarizing, whatever. But numbers don’t lie, they built 53,785 C8s in 2023 and they are all selling.…

That’s not really a good analogy, more like going after a lighter company that is selling flamethrowers to children.

Seriously, there are die cast model cars that cost more than this thing.  NP as a sculpture, great price if you can get it running again for another $10K.

I”m going to second Boston. My dad grew up there and instantly reverts to a Masshole when he crosses the state line going back home.

Arguably modern safety, fuel efficiency and other design restraints are starting to make these cars look more and more homogeneous relative to the variety of prior generations.