I’m just speculating here, but maybe the idea is that that’s how Peter remembers that scene?

Ok, now I’m curious. After you ordered the car, why did you need to have an ongoing relationship with the sales guy?

Also a good question. It seems unlikely they’d be open to negotiating a lower price if you had a price agreed upon in any kind of writing. That seems more like the situation in the article.

PS:  How are you still in the grays?  Haven’t you been posting here for years?

I actually might go to this. Is it just you and Alanis, or is more of the Jalopnik crew going to be there?

This is something that’s always puzzled me about ordering a car via a dealer.

Emissions regulations have also seen that the excellent Performance Package is now strictly for retail ordering only.

I’m not sure the bit about long trips is true. Electrify America is getting dangerously close to having enough L3 charging stations that you actually can make city to city trips.

In the case of regen braking, the limiting factor is usually the ability of the battery to absorb that much energy without damaging itself due to dendrite formation.

Short answer is no.

Didn’t even read the review. None of the words matter. It’s way beyond that ugly. That thing is fuuuuuuuglyyyyyyy.  All new BMWs are.

Actual 6th gen Camaro SS owner here. I’ve also owned an S550 Mustang GT.

Just a note: Teslas don’t really have gears at all - not even park or neutral. The motors are direct drive, with a single constant mesh gearset between the diff and motor output shaft. There’s no parking pawl, and “neutral” just disconnects the power from the motors, so they can spin freely forwards or backwards, and…

Toyota partnered with a company known for making unreliable cars to make one that harkens back to a model that was famous for being reliable, or at least durable.

Why are these people not getting the purchase agreement in writing when they order these things? Failing to do that seems like you’re pretty much begging the dealer to do this, even under normal circumstances.

Speaking as someone who spent that week in Texas under circumstances significantly less terrible than those of most of my neighbors, I was endlessly disappointed that Mexico let him in.

I kinda wish I’d bought a bolt instead of a Model 3. I’m sure the Tesla is a nicer car, but holy fuck was the experience of owning one frustrating to me, as a car enthusiast.  So frustrating that I traded it in for an Un-Tesla.

At 5.1 seconds to 60, it’s faster than the Model 3 I had. More importantly, though, it’s made by a real car company that (presumably) doesn’t do stupid BS like ruining the UI on the car’s singular instrument panel and then laughing at you when ask them to please change it back to pre-shitty.

It sounds like this is more or less exactly what I wanted my Model 3 to be.

I had one of those Mustangs. The transmission worked fine, but the rubber bushings holding it in always felt a bit too soft.

Maybe the cost of shipping those parts to customers would make it too expensive to do that? I can only imagine what it would cost to ship these things via UPS or FedEx, plus the risk of them getting damaged in shipping and so on.