“Can someone call my phone?  I think I dropped it.”

Hold my beer. - Ferrari

Looks like the Tesla responded about the same way as a human who was only paying half-attention. Panic, jerk to the side, recover, continue. Agree - it worked. And the driver is a bag of dicks for camping there in the first place.

I actually live in a place where this thing makes some sense.

The tire thing is an immense irritant. They last 20k miles - max. It puts down so much torque at the low end, and the tires are about 11 nanometers wide, so the resulting contact patch is tiny and they roast too soon.

The BMW extended warranty on top of CPO does (it was used at buy-time).  My wife went back in for service once ... and fell for it.  I was furious.

That I needed the extended warranty because “do you know how much brakes cost on a BMW?”

I miss my ‘03 ZHP E46 every time I see an E46 either in ZHP or M3 guise from that era (I believe they re-intro’d the M3 for MY2004?), I miss it ... right up until I remember the goddamned mechanical nightmare it was for 100k miles before my mechanic discovered that the VANOS unit was flawed - most likely from the…

When I saw the lede image, I immediately thought “I would drive the shit out of this, but only while wearing a completely ratty Royal Navy Commodore’s uniform from the 1850s.”

It is incredibly frustrating - even as a sun-belt dweller - that modern VWs did not allow lifting, as they are obscured by the bonnet. This prevents me from lifting them meaningfully to clean out tree debris after a storm, and makes changing them slightly more challenging than necessary.

Posted before seeing your note: that’s what bit us. Needed the 240 service from a breaker extension in the garage. Since we had to do it for one, we said screw it and installed 2 with a 3rd plumbed for an outdoor charger for guests.

FYI from my experience:

The designer of this vehicle’s front end clearly has a chemical dependency of some kind, so yep, probably.

Ha! No, it’s a TJ, and thankfully it’s holding cell was my garage.

Jaguar just did the smart thing and ran the math. They probably discovered a sweet spot in driving data, combined with their target demographic, that led them to “let’s build a luxury, mid-distance electric sex machine” and you know what? It’ll sell a zillion.

I would add that most people who own EVs (even now) have a 2nd ICE vehicle for road trips.  I’m about 50/50 on mileage, and pre-Covid, that was about 15k year split evenly.

I was prevented from boarding a flight from Frankfurt to Bangalore due to passport mishap.

“Pleasure Mode” was too long to print out for that button and still be readable.

That’s the most Porsche thing I can imagine, and I’m here for it. Being honest with the results is great, but showing (and beating!) your estimates under the worst possible conditions really gets my inner engineer ready for sexy nerd time.

Yeah, it’s a gimmick IMO. All I use it for is drawing cock-n-ball pictures and seeing how BMW interprets that as a letter.