Yes, there were some reasonably sporty versions of that cavalier. The 4x4 turbo had over 200 hp. It was definitely overshadowed by the Sierra / Sapphire Cosworth though.

How do any of one through three reduce your exposure? For example, if you don’t put down any cash and have negative equity, you’re still in a better position than the person who put down a lot of cash. The dollars are still the same, you just changed the timing of when you had to pay them. Psychologically it might…

A friend’s mother in high school had a new 100 Avant of this vintage(they were always called 100 and 200 in the UK, not 5000) and it was such a nice car at the time. Incredibly modern compared to virtually everything else on the road and amazingly comfortable. I’m not sure why the subsequent generation of Audis had…

That’s my point. I’m not saying the Rolls looks good. I think they both look hideous, but the Rolls has the trump card when it comes to the kinds of bragging rights that the people who buy these things care about. The more vulgar the better as far as the buyers are concerned.

Having spent a few days in Miami Beach over Christmas, I can confirm that the Bentayga is the millionaires row minivan. Presumably the help use the Bentayga for grocery getting, while the important people get driven in the Phantom or Cullinan.

Touchscreen, but the actual steering function needs to be a couple of sub-menus deep.

I think the challenges at Tesla would have occurred regardless of the Twitter goat rodeo. In a way it plays into Elon’s victim mentality - “Tesla would be fine if it wasn’t for all of these anti free speech zealots cramping my style!” - and ignores the existential threats that already existed.

Isn’t one of the suggestions a Saab (a company that hasn’t existed since 2016)?

The Doug unit of measurement can also be used to gauge how grating someone’s voice is.

It’s kind of funny that we’re guessing about the size of vehicles relative to the size of photos of Doug DeMuro, when we could just look up the dimensions on Google.

The Ioniq is much bigger than the Golf. It’s 4.6m long / 1.9m wide vs. 4.3m / 1.8m. I have an Ioniq 5, and it looks much bigger in the metal than in pictures. It’s huge inside compared to a Golf-class car also. I do agree that it’s stupid to call it an SUV, when it’s clearly just a large hatchback.

Not really. The reason you need LiDAR is because our human “cameras” are accompanied by a brain that understands billions of on-the-fly scenarios that cameras connected to software can’t. LiDAR helps make up a small amount of this massive deficit by “seeing” more than cameras do.

I guess what I mean is that Tesla also has no magical advantage over any other manufacturer in terms of its level of technical innovation. They’ve probably collected more data, but to what end?

The other factor is the casual way in which Musk and many others talk about how much better machines are at driving than humans, which of course is also complete rubbish. It’s one of those classic logical fallacies - because sensors of various kinds are more accurate than humans in judging distance, for example, then…

I can’t handle that people still parrot the “neural nets” and related nonsense language. The Emperor really has no clothes here. It’s almost all 100% fabricated, in the sense that nothing Tesla has is any different that any other manufacturer’s adaptive cruise control system. There is no secret room at Tesla filled…

That may be true, but I live just outside Toronto where we get occasional bouts of weather well below -20 celsius, and more often -10 or below. I’ve never seen anything close to a 50% drop in range, even in these temperatures.

Yea, this was a pretty major error / misunderstanding in the article. The last thing you want in the snow is a really wide tire.

But what EV could you have bought in 2015 that was equivalent in performance to a Mustang GT? It would have to have been a Tesla Model S, with the 70D having a base brice of $76k, compared to I think about $35k for your Mustang.

I understand that, but I don’t see how without some extremely creative math you can break even simply by adding in gas and maintenance costs. I mean a Hyundai Kona EV is literally almost double the price of its ICE equivalent. A Tesla Model Y is probably $15k - $25k more than most of its Q5, X3, GLC and similar…

3rd Gear: This seems unlikely to be true, unless the comparisons are being made with EVs at a similar price point to ICE vehicles, but which are in fact smaller and / or truly a different class of vehicle.