Yeah, I don’t see it. There’s absolutely zero business case for laundering a Russian SUV through an Italian marque to sell in the U.S. market that isn’t lacking for comparable product. This thing smells like a Russian mobster-fueled RICO investigation waiting to happen.

I want this movie, please.  Feel free to embellish.

I like to ride rather than drive my dream roads. I’ve been blessed to have enjoyed most of the great North American roads on a motorcycle, but I need to spend a lot more time in Europe. I’ve done the Dolomites and the Pyrenees, but need to hit the Alps, the Balkans, and Greece.

A lot of cranky people in this thread who clearly don’t ride a lick.

Ducati is one of the world’s biggest manufacturers and has a robust dealer market even here in the US, especially after its explosive growth over the past decade.

This... This is brilliant. PAY THIS COMMENTER. 

But there’s also a lot to be said for how our garbage infrastructure doesn’t value anyone not inside a car. Take the Bronx in NY, for example: Four cyclists were fatally struck in a three-month time frame over the summer. Did the borough decide to add robustly protected bike lanes? Nope!

Interestingly enough, despite the bikes bombing with customers when first produced, the PCH receives *crazy* loyalty from owners these days.  Pretty much every weird old fart online rides a PCH, and loves touring them.

That analogy breaks down in the fact that the 2007 iPhone was still superior to most every other phone on the marketplace, whereas the Zero isn’t objectively better than bikes half its price.

I hate airplane travel. But long-haul train travel in North America is the dumbest, most counter-productive, most useless thing imaginable. It’s not efficient, it’s not cheap, it literally has zero advantages over the worst plane ride imaginable, and a few more disadvantages than the plane.

And the world will never know the answer to these and other questions, for no one clicks on slideshows.

GMG Wants To Make One Thing Absolutely Clear: They Hate All Of You, The Readers, And Believe All Of You Are Chumps.

Car purchases are rarely logical. The American road trip is a romanticized concept. Whether people actually take them or not, it’ll be hard for some to imagine buying a car that isn’t at least capable of road tripping without long delays for charging.

That story has everything but this guy:

The only way out of this problem is the way we got into it: technology.  More regulations won’t solve it, no more than it solved COVID.  What will solve climate change is the same thing that will solve disease— technological solutions that prove better than what we have today, or help us adapt to the changes we can’t…

It also doesn’t help when the loudest voices for these causes are hypocrites— whether that’s the John Kerry/Leonardo DiCaprio Davos crowd telling the rest of the planet to suffer from their private jets, or governors and mayors dining at their neighborhood equivalents of the French Laundry while crushing people’s…

Hmmm. Perhaps I’m too laissez faire, and certainly the actual sensors involved may show a more serious outcome for vehicle occupants, but superficially, those crash tests don’t look nearly as bad as plenty of others I’ve seen. Having lived most of my life driving vehicles *without* side airbags, it’s not as if I…

Nah, it’s all special effects, he’s actually pretty tiny.

There are two solutions to this problem, one easy that you personally can do today, and one more difficult, but necessary in the long run.

It’s that last bullet point that likely affirmed Cadillacs plans to give the high-performance “true V” Blackwing models of the CT4 and CT5 sedans the standard stick. Apparently the people with money are interested in driving a manual car, as well as the younger age group.