The price is tempting, but having owned one of those, I don’t think I’d want to own it out of warranty. I had mine for a little over two years (it was a 2022), and it spent one out of every eight days that I owned it at the dealer, waiting on one part or another.

No, it’s just that the people who think like you don’t make big campaign donations to the politicians who call the shots.

Doesn’t this happen with every generation of almost every car? The takers buy one in the first two or three years, and after that there’s a decent supply of used ones.

Hold up. The current generation Mustang interior is a step BACKWARDS from the last one?

Having owned two S550s, that is an absolutely horrifying prospect, given that while it looked kinda cool, the interior of those cars is not a high water mark of quality. It’s better than turn of the millennium domestic cars, but it…

A quick look at that location on Google Maps reveals that there is an Electrify America station on the premises too. I wonder what pricing on that is like...

You are not. The Model Y (and Cybertruck) is a locally made product to me, which I’d be happy to buy if it didn’t mean giving money to Musk, who has apparently promised to then give it directly to Donald Trump.

I can say, as one data point, that I had been considering buying a Tesla, but given what a piece of crap Musk has turned into, I wouldn’t be caught dead in one of his cars.

Given that the dealers don’t really stock 911s, and instead special order each one, I don’t see that this is that much of a problem.  Everything is an option on a Porsche, which is obviously expensive, but arguably a good thing in the sense that you can at least get it exactly how you want.

The problem with Tesla is…

“Derelicte!”

The S is a hatchback, so maybe they’re being pedantic and calling it a “wagon” or something?

$300 doesn’t seem all that unreasonable.

Tesla charges $2000 for red.

So, what’s stopping him from getting another Hellcat, and driving that one?

Toyota started that fad. Those were called “Altezza” tail lights, because they appeared first as the stock tail light design on the Altezza, which was sold in the US as the IS300.

Worst thing I can think of is the doofy plastic oil filter housing on my 430i’s B46 engine. On this engine, not just the cap is plastic like most older BMWs, but rather the whole housing, so it’s not just the $10 gasket that can go bad and leak, but rather the whole housing, which costs something like $500 and looks…

I actually see these out driving around semi-regularly, usually in similarly clean shape, which says to me that they probably aren’t THAT unreliable.

Not that this isn’t really about coming up with a way to charge their customers a subscription fee or whatever, but if what they’re going to is actually Android Automotive, I actually have high hopes for it.

I’d like to see this test include something like a Quickjack, that sort of bridges the gap between a lift and jackstands.

If it’s anything like the Polestar 2 and XC40, then it derates the maximum power output a little bit when the state of charge is between 80% and about 10% (and then derates a lot below 10%).

In practice, you don’t really notice it’s doing this, since the difference isn’t that big, and it only makes a difference when…

Easy. Lifted bro-trucks with those dumbass polished wheels that stick way out past the fenders and spiky metal pedestrian-slaying battering ram bumpers.

On the flip side, eight year old TheChafing would have thought the APC with laser cannon turret was the coolest thing ever, and forty year old TheChafing had to be reminded that Hess is an oil company, despite working adjacent to the oil and gas industry.