It’s so painful when you guys try and explain financial terms. It would be much simpler just to explain a stock split as follows: if you owned one share before the split, you now own three shares after the split. The buy / sell activity sets the price and correspondingly determines the market cap.

Yes, their line up is thin to say the least. I do have a soft spot for the Giulia Quadrifoglio, and if I was in the market for a fast four-door gasoline sedan, I’d consider it. But it’s likely one of those things where I’d consider it but then opt for a brand with less uncertainty about reliability and maintenance in…

I think I’d be more upset if I was an Alfa Romeo dealer, since now what could have been a unique small SUV is more likely to be cross-shopped by people picking the best deal between Alfa and Dodge. For 2022, Alfa’s US market share to date is 0.09%, and for most months was down almost 30% from 2021. I can’t see how…

Move to Canada. The Ioniq 5 RWD long range (with the same 77 KwH battery) is $54.5k Canadian ($42k US) here and has 225 hp. You can get about 320 miles on a charge, but otherwise it meets your requirements.

My Ioniq 5 regularly exceeds its official range. The official range is 414 km, and I’ve done two trips now where I exceeded 460 km, without any kind of hyper-miling, just normal driving. Driven carefully, I’m sure it can do more than 500 km. If you drive very aggressively, or do mostly high speed freeway driving, then…

We do have to factor in the emissions from battery production, which make the manufacture of an EV significantly more polluting than the manufacture of an ICE car. So I agree that a lot of the criticism of EVs is disingenuous to say the least, but some of the criticism is valid. The problem is the EV / solar / wind…

I think that might be a bit too charitable. If anything, the Hummer will validate the prejudices of the many drivers who see EVs as expensive toys for the smug and entitled.

My ridiculous notion? This was my first comment in the thread.

But still you felt compelled to tell the commentariat that your income increased by 10x, and explain that you could have a giant house and giant RV if you wanted to. If these things truly didn’t matter to you, there would be no need to bring them up, but instead you’re using their absence as a marker of virtue.…

There is just such huge variability based on where you live. I plug both our EVs in at home, but for those without off street parking, the options in most of Ontario are terrible unless you’re in the Tesla camp. I managed to get more than 460 km range from the Ioniq 5 on a recent trip, but even two hours from Toronto,…

It’s been really perplexing to see auto journalists praising the EQS interior, when, as you say, it looks incredibly tacky / gimmicky. Mind you, when you see what they’ve done with the Maybach brand, their idea of luxury is getting pretty Trumpian. Between a Lucid and an EQS, it would be a tough decision, since I’d be…

I’m not a huge fan of the E-Tron GT. It just looks a bit bland compared to the Taycan. I do like that it has physical buttons for climate rather than everything being touchscreen.

I’m taking delivery of a Taycan GTS Sport Turismo next week. Took the opportunity to get the only allocation my dealer had, partly because the trade-in price on our Taycan Turbo is for more than we paid for the car.

The Taycan is the only real option if you want an EV driver’s car at the moment, and obviously it’s still a very heavy sedan / wagon vs. anything resembling a sports car. At this time, I think batteries are just too heavy to make it possible to have a driver’s EV that is as agile as an ICE sports car.

OT but related. The author of the Jack Reacher novels picked his pen name, Lee Child, because he once heard someone pronouncing Le Car as Lee Car, and it became a family joke to refer to his daughter as Le (pronounced Lee) Child.

Hands down the lack of a rear wiper on my Ioniq 5. I realize this is the absence of a feature rather than a feature, but it does mean that my car always “features” a dirty rear windshield that ruins rear visibility.

First Gear: Anyone else see a Saab 9-7x when they look at that Vinfast?

I agree it could have been smaller. However, it does mean the back seat is really spacious. Huge amounts of legroom. For our needs, I would have preferred something more like the Lancia Delta size it appears to be in photos, but you’re right it is massive in the metal.

I took delivery of my Ioniq 5 (the same AWD version reviewed here, except in Canada they call it the “Ultimate” rather than Limited) about two months ago. I definitely don’t agree that this car lacks popular appeal. Our other cars are a Taycan and a 911, but there is just no comparison between them and the reaction…

Otherwise known as a range of colours so boring, you won’t feel so bad about giving Porsche $12k and change for a PTS colour.