I’d say Tesla’s response is more of a story than anything else. Can you imagine of GM or Ford or Toyota came out after an accident and said “well yea, but this can happen to any car”. Like yea, no shit it can, but you don’t publicly say that you nitwits.

Because most doors aren’t massive, heavy, electronically-assisted systems that open upwards. A regular side-opening door getting stuck might be tough to break open, but these sound much more difficult.

Would it kill the seller buyer to buy some M5 door panels, lower dash, and center console?

Just on a comparative basis, you needed 36% more power at 70mph than you did at 60mph. I used a cD of .50 and frontal area of 40sqft (3.7162 m2) in Wolfram Alpha’s drag calculator for that... drag force of 835.5N at 60mph, 1137N at 70mph.

That fuel economy number just plain sucks, but it’s only a little surprising. I would have figured 10-11 MPG.

The rest of your complaints are just the Raptor being a Raptor though. It’s not a mudder, a rock crawler or a tow vehicle by nature, and I don’t get the impression that it’s trying to present itself as any…

Except for the videos of M4s, C7 Corvettes, Vipers, etc crashing at C&C.

And stupidity. You know it’s a heavy vehicle, and you can tell from pictures the mud isn’t even remotely stable. Therefore, you should be able to realize that if you drive in there, you’re going to sink.

This is what I’ve harped on before. WHAT SPEEEEED? No mention before, no mention now.

That’s one of the big issues with marketing gasoline turbos as fuel efficient in my eyes. They are only really fuel efficient when you aren’t using them. Ask a turbo for any power and they are typically tuned richer than an equivalent NA engine for safety. Look at most NA fuel maps and max power is maybe 13-13.5:1…

Yeah but your average speed was probably 15-20mph less which makes a huge difference.

The problem you experienced is probably related to your choice of fuel octane. The Raptor can run on 87 octane, but requires 93 to run full efficiency (it actually has a sensor to determine octane rating). The truck derates its engine if it’s being fed anything less. Using 93, your MPG would have been better than what…

Lets be honest... I don’t blame the locked 4x4 on 35's with 450hp for getting stuck and sunk in a residential back yard. Thats 100% driver error.

A floating roll-cage just means it’s not welded directly to the chassis but probably bolted on via rubber bushings. Totally plausible that such a setup would be able to provide rigidity in the event of a crash/rollover while still not contributing to torsional stiffness. Seems only fair to counter the added dead…

Well....the jerk store called, and they said they are running out of you!

I’m buying every manual transmission new car today.

This seems like a cop out to me. The take rate on manuals is very low, this just seems like an excuse not to spend the time and money developing a manual to hold the power these cars make when you know there aren’t as many buyers out there. That’s fine from a business-case standpoint, you don’t need to throw up your…

They don’t make too much power, it’s a load of marketing horseshit. Consider the source: Quintus is head of marketing and sales.

Where in the article did anyone say that you won’t be able to buy a base-model 3-series with a stick? This is specifically about M-cars that make too much power to offer a good manual and be reliable. Nothing to do with base model cars whatsoever.

I took my e46 in to the dealer for that airbag recall recently. Usually never go there, but they were trying to sell me on “trading in” my 220k mile car for a new one. I could have told them one reason is that I’ll never be able to buy a 40 thousand dollar car the way the economy is going for my generation, but I was…

This makes me sad. Just further proof that BMW cares less and less about being the Ultimate Driving Machine.