I’d take just about anything McKinsey puts out with a grain of salt lol their whole purpose is solutions in search of problems (and aiding dictators/the worst companies in history) 

I’ve only driven an EV once, but it was enough to convince me that electric is the future of automobiles. I still love my stick shifts and roaring engines, so I won’t be buying an EV any time soon, but simply from the perspective of performance, smoothness, effortless power and refinement the path forward is obvious.

It depends on your local gasoline and electricity rates...

No, no, I’ve followed the maintenance schedule in the manual since I bought it. Nothing really comes up until 150k, when the timing belt needs to be changed. And even given that I’m going to short circuit the short circuit the mileage requirement and get it done in the next year or so, for piece of mind. And who said…

It seems to me that tires go pretty quickly on EV vs. ICE cars. I am curious how well the suspension and steering components (control arm bushings, ball joints, tie rods, etc.) hold up with the additional weight of an EV but that should be considered during the design phase. Really the parts you save on are brake pads…

I can’t really see how the maintenance on an EV really comes in that much cheaper.  Even my Fiat 500 is practiaclly bulletproof compared to the cars I grew up with.  I’m coming up on a decade of ownership and I’ve changed the oil a couple times a year, two new sets of tires, and one all round break job.  Sure, if I’d…

“according to the consumer lobby that represents about 336,000 EV drivers.”

I have a Kia EV6. My next door neighbor has one too. I will always have an AV car in my driveway. They are amazing. I will also have a gas car in my driveway until the infrastructure gets better. My in-laws live 12.5 hours from me by car, I’m not interested in playing the charging game to get to them yet.

Oh, I have no doubt of that: consulting companies love to push their preferred solution. The swing of 46% to 1% though is wild and I don’t believe it.

McKinsey isn’t nearly as smart as McKinsey would like you to believe. Their advice is mostly boilerplate cost-cutting, layoffs, reorganizations, and the like. I’m somewhat ashamed that one of my (former?) friends from grad school works for them.

What idiot in charge at BMW looked at the 2 series and said:”Yeah, that’s what our premium sedan needs to look like?”

Fuck, that’s terrible.

Absolutely awful.  What in the hell is going on over there in Bavaria?!?!

It looks... like if FWD cheap sedan with BMW bits bolted on, like it’s platform sharing with something cheaper and they have glitzed it up. I am not a fan of modern BMW design but they normally have a BMW stance. At least the 2 series is FWD, so they where working around that. Indeed I am either bored or appalled with…

It’s certainly better than this one (on the outside anyway) - but that isn’t saying much.

I’m on my third BMW (two 3's, one 5) and this pretty much confirms my next car will be something else.  They were once the flagship of elegant simplicity coupled with fun driving characteristics.  I just don’t get who is driving the boat in the design department these days.

Stop this shiny shit.

Where’s the ‘design’? It’s a mess. 

So why have CUV’s and SUV’s so dominated the market?

As the owner of three previous BMW, K1300, E39 Wagon and the 850. This new 5 series does nothing for me that says I have to buy it.