I’m with you. If this car had at least an EPA-rated range of 300 miles, I’d be doing all sorts of mental and financial gymnastics to figure out how to acquire the non-RS version. But with only 238, even acknowledging that VAG tends to beat their estimates where Tesla does the opposite, that’s just not going to fly.…

Because Tesla has to cut corners wherever it can to stay profitable to a greater extent than VAG.

Body colour for the grille insert is an option. IIRC, you can also get that insert in a metallic grey.

Wait, who was the brand-new villain in Matrix Reloaded? Smith was literally the villain for the entire trilogy.

The very premise of TLJ is an insult to audiences intelligences, and that’s before we get to terrible pacing, dull soundscape (not unique to TLJ), and the more controversial topics like characterization.

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.