It’s also maddening that Audi doesn’t fully embrace the unique nature of the EV driving experience. A true regen mode isn’t available, which makes one-pedal driving impossible. You can select a small amount of regen by using the steering wheel paddles, but the effect is akin to opening the door and dragging your foot…

A TLX Type S with all the material options checked is just shy of $54k. An equivalent Audi would be the Premium Plus with the Sport Package and B&O Sound, which after selecting a better paint puts me at just over $58k.

As opposed to the fourth-generation Jalopnik automotive journalist nobody has ever heard of? Who drove manufacturer-prepped cars at 8/10ths on a perfectly prepped surface also selected by said manufacturer?

And yet, according to the track instructor in that video, it does when you actually push it.

This is a bad take. A Porsche 911 is, by all accounts, an extremely easy car to drive both on the street and on the track and yet people trip over themselves gushing over how nice it feels to drive and they sell like crazy. Why? Probably because it nails all the subjective qualities that the NSX doesn’t; it delivers…

Here, this is all you really need to know:

No, because they will price the actual colors according to demand forecast. See also: how the Germans price their colors today.

But with all the power in the world to find out more if he wants to.

No, no, you have to fuck them and THEN move on! It doesn’t work at all the other way around!

Man would I love to get a house built exactly the way I want, because everything seems to be architecturally stuck in the 19th century and it fucking sucks, but building a house where I am is simply not financially feasible unless you are deep into six figures. I’m not that deep. Instead I get the privilege of paying…

As somebody who very much enjoys the sensations of driving more than the outright performance, the fake spacey noises are sufficient in this department. Now they just need to do something to

Sweden is also tiny. If all of Europe manages to adopt that scheme, then we might have something.

I would say that what Elizabeth described is the catalyst for what WayDude described. They are not mutually exclusive concepts, but rather they complement each other. Something about need being the mother of all invention and all that jazz.

I am not entirely sure what that has to do with my post about Mercedes making ugly cars, lol.

The only Mercedes vehicles that genuinely look good are the AMG GT (the real one, not the rebodied E-class posing as a four-door flavor of it) and the G-Wagon. The rest are droopy-ass, melted messes. Even the E-Wagon looks like a hearse.

There are also tons of people with scooters that do go on the highway. Jackasses, all of them.

Eh, I cut the 8V A3 some slack. It’s essentially a 2012 car, the first VWAG product equipped with MQB; it isn’t a touch screen at all because those were not yet universally prolific and, at the time, Apple CarPlay was not even a thing. At least the MMI controller is nice to use and you have the option to tuck the…

See, the round vents are one of the highlights to me. And even with your side-by-side reference to the glasses and hat, it still doesn’t really come across like that to me.

It’s a deal-breaker for me. Maybe the website is just more limited and, if you custom order, you can get the round-bag wheel. Actually going to ask my dealer about this, because right now is a really good time to trade my current car in.

I cannot say I agree. The Golf R looks busy and slightly claustrophobic, with the squared off them coming across as cheap. The S3 looks open and airy, and only the central screen comes across as cheap. The gauge cluster on the Audi is also far nicer in use.