For me, the problem is more that the phone key sometimes doesn’t work. It’s gotten better over the last year, and seems to play nicer with iPhones than Android devices, but when I first got my Model 3, it would refuse to acknowledge my phone as the key about one out of every ten times.

A good thing to note is that, if you’re an enthusiast, the EVs to have are the Model 3, Taycan and Model S, not any of the crossover-y ones.  Or a Tesla Roadster, if you can get your hands on one that still works.

That actually does look pretty cool.

Actual Tesla customer here.  I’d have preferred to buy my car from a dealer.  Dealing with The Mothership is a pain in the ass at basically every turn.

My parents bought one of these new right around the time my sister was born. We had it until well past 2001.  It was an ‘87 Aries Wagon in “midnight” blue with sort of a gray-blue interior.  It had a really horrible 3 speed automatic that seemed to require a rebuild every 30K miles, and a 2.5L 4 cylinder engine that…

Bring a friend?  Or go there with a truck and trailer, prepared to haul it home.

It’s not Apple you need to worry about here.  It’s any company they license this technology to.  Tesla, BMW and Audi being the ones I feel are most likely to adopt it enthusiastically.  Probably in that order.

You can avoid a lot (but not all) of the need for that by using proper JIS screwdrivers.

In the one video, where the black truck deliberately collides with another vehicle, that’s pretty obviously assault.  If this is just a tantrum being thrown by a bunch of whiny man-children, it’s a pretty fucking violent one.

Furthermore, these are the same people who like to prattle on and on about “respect for the flag,” which doesn’t exactly jive with subjecting the flag repeatedly to gale force winds, diesel soot, and road debris.

How about a Mercedes Benz R-Class? The guy mentioned that his idea vehicle is a Mazdaspeed 5, and that’s sorta-kinda what the R-class is. I agree with Tom in general, though, that the answer here is a minivan.

My grandfather loved his Honda CRV for basically this exact usage case; I would say that if Pete and his folks…

Buying a Tesla (a vehicle that can be purchased without the involvement of a dealer) is a worse experience.

If you think the typical 2-3 hour process at a dealership is a pain, just imagine if it took several weeks before you even get to see your actual car, and you may or may not accept that one, depending on how many…

It could just as easily be my cousin, who is a moron, in his late 20s, from the Orlando area.

ATE (a German company) used to make a really good DOT 4-ish brake fluid that was called “Super Blue” because it was dyed blue. They had another, almost identical, type that had a different name, and was dyed orange. It was common practice for racers to switch between the two every time they’d flush their fluid, and…

So, it needs an engine?

The key is that 10X more.  There’s way more profit in forcing you to replace the whole thing.

Holy crap, can you imagine how slow this thing must be, hauling around a bus, AND a house with an old Beetle engine?

I think the picture Sam Smith posted looks 1000 times better. They fixed THE problem I had with BMW’s current design language.

Probably harder to get that $2K a month loan on a five year old car that costs that much.

Edit:  Also, you can’t claim your schlongola is so big if you’re financing a used Porsche, which is clearly a major factor in this purchasing decision.

I’m 5' 11,” and the problem I had with my 2002 MR2 Spyder was that I had to kind of lean over to my right in order to see stoplights. I had room to spare behind the seat, and plenty of headroom with the top up, but the top edge of the windshield was always right where I needed to be looking in order to see if the…