Of course Mini hasn’t “heard any concerns from customers”; they’re not the ones looking at the damn things.

Never understood this logic. If "everyone knows what you're driving" how is it "stealth"? 

Are you the seller..? 

Also genuinely curious about the data behind this

I’m an Elon skeptic with a (very) small short position in TSLA. That largely stems from a belief that an influx of competition will kill S and X sales, cuts to production quality will eventually piss off even the most diehard customers, and that the 3 will never be profitable enough to sustain the company. But I don’t…

Who is this for? Not suggesting there’s no market for it (though it is kind of narrow), just curious how your take squares with what I envision as that of Audi’s marketing department. 

As someone who just unloaded a B8 wagon with 120k miles, I can tell you that Evan is about to sleep much better at night.

“Sure, we lose money on every ride, but we make up for it in volume!”

Congrats

I’ve been eying a new V60 for a couple months, as a possible replacement for my ticking-time-bomb of a 2009 B8 Audi A4 Avant (we’re pushing 115k miles, it’s time to stop playing Russian Roulette). After reading this I think I might go the used / certified route on a ‘17 and save the $15k and headache on the Volvo. All…

90% of commenters would totally shell out $100k for an RS6 Avant if Audi would just have the good sense to bring it stateside.

Speaking of self-identifying, thanks for doing so. As a goddamn troglodyte. 

I generally read the Washington Post cover-to-cover on Sundays and always find at least 3 grammatical errors. The notion that editors are some mistake-catching super force is pure fantasy. Everyone screws up; I wouldn’t read too much into it.

#tslaq

You can’t fire off a hot take like this and only offer up four grafs to support your point. I find it ironic that a car blogger would take objection, or fail to understand the appeal of watches.

Somewhat of a tangent here but in terms of the EV credit cap, could GM just create a new EV car company (in the mold of Genesis) and reset the 200,000 car count?

They’re evidently shifting their focus away from fleet sales, which is kind of confounding to me, but I guess the profit margin is lower for that market.

So what’s worse, “pretend” street racing or the media showing ISIS beheading videos?? Hmmmm??? I for one would rather have the fake street racing show. 

Such a great sound, too. Incredible value these days. 

This is exactly right. I’m sick of all the noise about Elon smoking weed, his “pedo” and “funding secured” comments, etc.; he’s the reason Tesla’s market cap is higher than GM’s, even in spite of massive losses every quarter.