This is satire, right? Sorry for asking but it’s extremely hard to tell these days. If not, I sincerely urge you to get psychological help rather than view this as an “other people” problem.

Not to mention that dealers who have built new stand-alone stores have invested millions to do so. I’d be pretty upset if I was getting the same allocation of new cars as a dealer who hadn’t made similar investments.

I did not they’re the same car with a different badge; I made a silly crack about Audi’s business model. That said, the ID4, Skoda Enyak and the Q4 are clearly much closer to being the same car with a different badge than an Urus and an Audi Q7.

The graphics probably look chintzier, but the Ioniq 5's level 2 driver assist stuff and HUD work surprisingly well. It steers and changes lanes pretty flawlessly on the highway, and generally sounds like it does a much better job than the Q4.

This is basically Audi’s business model in one sentence. You just need to add “for much more money.”

Get a 997 targa and you can even claim it’s a family hatchback.

I rented a regular Golf Mk 8 in the UK, and the new interface literally ruins the day-to-day experience of living with the car. Everything about the screen, the capacitive buttons, it’s all awful. It would be a hard no for me for this reason alone.

Yea, in Canada the non-Tesla charging options are still pretty poor, both in terms of location and reliability. Electrify Canada stranded me in brutal winter weather because none of the chargers would initialize and I just couldn’t deal with the Tesla sales and service experience, horrible ride quality on the Y and…

100%. This was clearly bought by someone whose first priority was to buy something so they could tell people they had an expensive car, but did not realize the world of financial pain an out-of-warranty turbo V8 BMW can bring. And it’s in the worst colour with trim “upgrades” that make the interior almost as bad. I…

The Ioniq is definitely not a car to buy for driver engagement. The ride is fairly comfortable, but there is zero steering feel, and quite a bit of body roll in the corners. Our other car is a Taycan GTS Sport Turismo, which is obviously dramatically sharper to drive, yet also has better ride quality and overall…

Yea, I have an Ioniq 5 and it is 100% a big hatchback not an SUV.

As I’ve noted before, our Ioniq 5 (AWD with the apparently range-sapping larger wheels) regularly exceeds the 256 miles of range it’s officially rated at. At a pinch I can get just over 500 km / 310 miles, and without trying to drive for range, 460 km is easy (285 miles). I’ve given up using eco mode, since it really…

So to summarize, they are super reliable as long as you don’t mind them overheating or catching fire? Just being facetious, but I guess the message from your post is they are not for people who don’t know how to maintain them properly, or for the faint of heart.

I wonder if anybody has any good Jaguar stories. Everyone seems to know someone who had / has a horrible experience with an old Jag, yet people still seem to come back for more punishment. As well as the XJS story I mentioned earlier in the comments, I had a neighbour (who should have known better since he used to be…

But oddly, many people drive BMW X6s and other abominably proportioned, Aztec-like German “fastback” SUVs. These are all the ugly of the Aztec for three times the price, which seems like a much worse trade.

It was a later V12 than this model, but in our old neighbourhood there was a gentleman with a beautiful green V12 XJS. I once saw him pulling onto the main street that is probably 400 metres from his house, turn onto the street only to have the car stop in a cloud of smoke, blocking a lane of traffic. It was very much…

There will be an electric Porsche 718 Boxster and Cayman, I think for the 2025 model year, and with a claimed weight of about 3,650 lbs.

The EV space seems like it’s a cesspit of bullsh*t when it comes to this kind of stuff. It’s pretty sad that the Jalopnik author doesn’t even seem to be aware of the Plug and Charge standard (which did actually work seamlessly the one time I used it).

This cat robot plan seems like a classic example of a stupid person’s idea of how a smart person would act. “Hey, robots that do jobs like people, so they should be shaped like humanoids!” Humans are shaped like humans not so we can do repetitive tasks on an assembly line. That is actually a really inefficient use of…

I would probably add the RSQ8 on to the list. The only reason it doesn’t officially have 600 hp is to maintain a gap between it and the Urus. I think CarWow did a drag race in which the Audi beat the Lamborghini, so I’m sure Audi are understating the power.