Fully agree with the first statement, fully disagree with the second. Debadging makes cars look cheap and pretentious all at once. Like a BMW 320i pretending to be a 340. You typically don’t tend to see that on higher trims, either.

consider the following: tire upgrade

Tires. All day, every day.

You ever see a take that’s just so insane, so completely removed from reality that you’re almost completely dumbfounded and unable to respond?

It’s not turbo lag, that doesn’t even really exist anymore. Ford programs its truck transmissions very, very far in the direction of fuel economy, which makes them very excited about shifting up, and very reluctant to shift down. You can correct this simply by putting the transmission in sport, pushing the tow button,…

Nope. Just another future Herman Cain Award winner.

Does that guy ever present anything even approaching a valid criticism?

Having now seen the further correspondence, I see what you mean. Blimey.

You’re ‘just trying to establish the facts’ while tossing around accusations of conflict of interest with no evidence of any. Maybe, just maybe, Brad is writing more about EVs because there are suddenly more of them and that’s the way the whole industry is heading? I thought it was, as usual, an interesting article…

Also, which company is behind Autopia 2099?

I run a car show. It lost money. I will continue doing them because it’s fun and I like growing the community. I make my money writing about cars, and that is the priority. There is no conflict. Nobody pays for my opinions, and has never given me anything for favorable coverage of their companies. Nissan is the title…

This response is SO awesome! Thanks!

If I got even a fraction of the dollars people claim journalists are paid off, I wouldn’t need to work so hard. Eat shit.

They have just convinced us that “not ugly” is an accomplishment.

Holy shit they actually designed a not ugly vehicle for a change. 

Thankfully, the Model Y and Model 3 and free of most of that stuff. The door handles are still silly but not too complicated. The glass ceiling is nice but definitely not practical in the event of rock chips or any glass damage. It’s $700-900 to fix. However, the rest of it is solid, sometimes you’ll have cosmetic…

I see what you did there. 

The Ford F150 is the best selling vehicle in the US:

Why is cover image a Model S?

Putting important if not quite mission-critical functions on a touchscreen might not be the recipe for long term reliability either.