Maseratis are made to look and sound good, and drive well enough. Comparing a Ghibli to an S5 misses the point for me. Audi is the embodiment of understated luxury. But the Ghibli would put a bigger smile on my face when I saw it in my driveway each morning. 

I don’t completely agree with that. If the reported pricing ends up being accurate (big if), it’ll be much cheaper than the Hummer or Rivian. Range on the Lightning is still a bit of an unknown when you start adding weight, so it’s possible the Tesla could have an advantage there. And while I know they’re coming, I…

Not necessarily true. I actually got a pretty decent deal on the Corolla I just bought. Not as good as if I had just bought one off the lot back in April instead of doing a custom order, but still about 7% off msrp before the paltry incentives.

Why wouldn’t that help the OP? That line starts in NYC and stops in Philadelphia before continuing south. They means that pretty much anywhere in New Jersey is within at most a 90 minute drive of one of those train stops. If it meant significantly increasing my buying power, I would hop on that train in a heartbeat to…

Here’s a Suzuki SX4 in Hazlet, NJ with just over 100k miles and within budget. Looks quite clean, and you’d have plenty of space for those hardware store runs with the back seats folded. These things are known to be pretty reliable and the AWD is supposed to be quite decent. There are several more in the area that are…

Pimp my ride ceased to be pimp my ride once they changed shops. I feel like that’s when they really started just doing dumb, cartoonish shit for the shock factor.

I think we’re defining the term differently. Certain departments have used that technology to predict where crimes are more likely to occur, supposedly in order to better position their officers for quicker response. But analyzing data in aggregate is a long way from trying to pinpoint an individual and arresting them…

1) Car is ugly as hell. Never good when a vehicle is better looking backwards.

That interior looks almost as nice as a Kia minivan. 

Good idea if you're paying for it, especially if you have kids. But if you travel with any frequency, you should have a rewards card, and almost all the decent ones will reimburse the cardholder for GE or Precheck, but not NEXUS. Free is better than $50.

The safety score really doesn’t seem any different than those little dongles you plug in to get cheaper insurance. It’s just that Progressive isn’t a cult, despite their commercials.

I suppose if you microwaved the Lotus for a while, you might get there. 

Why not just keep the power the same, and use a smaller battery module to keep the weight down? Why does every EV need giant power? 

Because you don’t actually care what the food tastes like, and are solely concerned with other people seeing you spend lots of money?

You must not go to nice steakhouses very often. $100 a head, including sides and drinks, is generally the starting point for anything dry aged. The “God tier” stuff, like wagyu, runs $40 an ounce at my local swanky joint.

To be fair, they barely make burritos. I don’t ask for a whole lot of ingredients when I order from Chipotle, but they somehow can never manage to properly wrap the damned thing. If I’m taking it home or getting delivered, I’ll usually take it all out, wipe off whatever leaked outside, mix up the ingredients so I…

A lot of people are big mad about this in the comments, but to me it just seems like a way to cook the books. Want the level 3 assist, but don’t want to roll it into your car loan and pay interest on it? Subscribe. It’s not like people have never paid for an option before.

While I would agree that converting classics is unlikely to have much effect, your assertion that personal vehicles are a small part of the picture isn’t quite accurate. According to this, personal vehicles make up about 9.5% of global emissions (45.1% of transport emissions, which make up 21% of the global total;…

Seems like a car you hit the "avoid highways" checkbox in. Make the drive home on state highways and county roads instead of the interstate. 

Wisconsin salts the shit out of our roads, but these are still around. I might be able to see the differential through the rust holes in the bedside, but they're still on the road.