“What does Acura intend to do in order to curtail price gouging by dealerships?”

Seriously.  Those garbage wheel spacers are the kind of shit you see on a clapped out Civic.

I can already feel the dealer markups...

The fact that it turns yellow first seems like it’s almost encouraging the offending driver to speed up, and then punishing whoever comes along after them.

Although, maybe I’m just being pessimistic, but here in Austin, I can imagine at least one school zone that could definitely use something like this, but I also…

Hearing the narrator from the Deus Ex one still makes my blood boil, like ten years later.

I had no idea there was a second level, though.  As I recall, I just kind of brute forced it, and eventually won.

Yes, but the other colors cost $1000 or more, so most of them are purchased in white.

I’m surprised we don’t see the Polestar 2 on the list. From my cursory looking (because I own one, and I was curious), the depreciation on it has been pretty brutal.

This is obviously just my opinion, but I wouldn’t call any of their FWD products “premium” either.

Actually, having spent quite a bit of time in the last RWD generation of the X1, I wouldn’t necessarily call that premium either, even though it is RWD.  The hard plastic game was strong in that thing.

Premium isn’t wrong wheel drive.

No, it’s not. The 100kwh pack being a different design, there could be any number of reasons for the different behavior.

Different use pattern for those cars, better cooling in the 85kwh version, different cell chemistry or design, software differences, and so forth.

Every EV I’m aware of has the ability to do this. You plug it in, set the charging limit to whatever level you want, and the car will stop charging when it gets to that level.

Do the doors still feel like empty beer cans?

People actually buy those.  Apparently.

I’m doing my part - I bought two new manual cars in that time period.

If you’ve never even had it checked, and you’re avoiding using it because you’re afraid of the need to have it serviced at some point in the future, then you’re doing it wrong along multiple axes.

The cables stretch a little over time, but are almost universally adjustable.

Adjusting the parking brake is most likely on the maintenance schedule as a regular service item.

At least in the Mustang, the parking brake is still manual, as God intended.

The “Plaid” versions of the S and X do. They don’t have the shifter stalk, and have moved all the stuff that controls either onto the center screen, or onto the steering wheel.

Of course it doesn’t.  But the idea that this recall will be totally free to Tesla is totally wrong.  Whatever software fix they have to implement in order to satisfy NHTSA will require a considerable amount of effort on the part of some presumably very smart and skillful people at Tesla, and those guys generally…

Software costs money, though.  Individual copies of it, once it’s developed, are very cheap, but developing software, particularly something as complex as their self driving software, is expensive and difficult.