I suppose if you think it’s OK to replace stable employment in North America and Europe with sweatshop labour (and in some cases slave labour in Chinese concentration camps), then your point that it “makes sense” is valid. Good luck living in the society this dynamic will ultimately spawn.

This is obviously true, but who’s to say it’s actually the right decision? If anything, the EV push is a massive distraction from way more pressing environmental issues such as species extinction and habitat loss, the need to invest in new nuclear technology, etc.

If you really like the car, I wouldn’t let this omission stop you from getting it. The lack of a wiper sounds worse than it actually is in the real world. It’s just very silly and has no real benefit that I can think of. I can’t imagine the tiny aerodynamic advantage is worth it, particularly not when the top trims…

AWD. I’ve only put about 800 kms on it so far. Overall I really like it. The handling is pretty wallowy, and you can certainly feel the weight of the vehicle, but overall it’s pretty good. Lack of a rear wiper, USB-A ports and no wireless CarPlay are some of the misses, but for the price it’s an amazingly competent EV…

First Gear: Will the Hyundai investment include funding for a Rear Wiper Development Centre of Excellence for my Ioniq 5?

I thought with the recent carnage in the stock market (including for EV stocks like Rivian, which was eviscerated this week), there might be fewer “here’s a moody, darkly lit rendering of an EV that doesn’t exist, but bear with us while we incinerate our investors’ cash” announcements.

It is funny that car makers still think people might associate flying with luxury, or want to be reminded of it when they’re driving. The nicest thing about a road trip is that you’re not in a dirty metal tube surrounded by strangers with wildly varying standards of personal hygiene and habits.

Yes, it’s a truly hideous vehicle, in both regular and extended wheelbase variants. I just don’t see the appeal at all. It’s an Audi Q7, but for people who want to advertise their lack of taste more aggressively.

For international flights, I usually book business class, particularly for overnight when I need to sleep on the plane. Premium economy is totally fine for daytime flights. However, the thing I find hardest about flying now is the pain of getting through the airport, security, hours of time wasted. I can see why…

I think the new S-Class has over 60 miles of EV range.

It’s funny, I was just going to post something about how much smaller my 997 feels compared to my previous 991.2, but when I look at the dimensions online, they are almost the same size.

This is how these toxic platforms prevail - creating the sense that you must be on there or you’ll be excluded from meaningful social and commercial interaction. They simultaneously tell their users “you must be here to be part of society,” while utterly abdicating the responsibility that comes with being the very…

Came here to ask something similar. Has Mazda managed to go from offering the least compelling EV on the market to the only EV that actually needs more oil changes than a normal car?

The “mostly” part is why FSD is so misleading. It’s not “mostly” in a predictable way (for example, no need for any driver intervention or attention on divided highways), it’s “mostly” as in stay in a state of attention in case it disengages or encounters one of the many scenarios it can’t interpret. To me this is…

Standard hybrids don’t have 600 lbs of batteries to cart around.

In some ways the weight of the PHEV cars is the worst, since for a good chunk of the car’s driving time, it’s often empty and therefore just 600lbs or more of dead weight being dragged around. Many people in the UK got PHEVs as company cars because of the lower benefit-in-kind tax accorded to their nominally much…

I would be hard pressed to pick the M440i over the i4 M50. But I guess it’s probably hard to get the EV in any kind of reasonable timeframe.

But they did make the Escort Cosworth. And I still have a soft spot for the previous generation XR3i and Turbo RS variants.

Agreed. The previous generation had some terribly dated aspects to the interiors, but they felt like bespoke vehicles, made by people who were dedicated to making the most beautiful and unique cars they could, without the resources of a major manufacturer.