It’s completely consistent with the Musk reality distortion field. Evidence from the outside world further hardens the belief system of the zealots.

Yes, the economy is very different than even a few months ago. We have suppliers coming to us with aggressive price cuts who were too busy to take our orders last year.

Not only is the public whining ridiculous, so is the lack of critical analysis from the writers of these pieces. So many makes and models had various dealer add-ons that often resulted in five figure price increases above MSRP over the last couple of years. All of those buyers are already seeing or about to see buyers…

That was not my experience yesterday in a heat pump-equipped Ioniq 5. It was very cold with blowing snow (wind definitely a factor here), and on a highway drive I was knocked down from my typical winter 350+ km of range to more like 260 km. In mild weather, I’d easily exceed 400 km. Also, the underlying data from the…

$1,000 deviated stitching option.

Yea, the math seems wildly off. My ChargePoint app keeps track of my home charging costs. We have two EVs and pretty much exclusively charge at home. In summer I average about 16 kWh per 100 km in the Ioniq, and more like 21 in the winter. Let’s call that 420 km of range on average, and to be generous let’s take that…

GM delivered fewer than 900 Hummer EVs in 2022. Admittedly they could have delivered more if they’d produced more, because they have a big backlog of orders. But those orders are underpinned by a $100 refundable deposit, so who knows how many people could actually ever have afforded one, and will go ahead with the…

Or even simpler, just keep his existing Volvo.

5th Gear: I wonder if the margins are any better / worse on Rolls’s EV vs ICE cars. I believe the Spectre uses a Rolls-only platform, not an i7 platform, so it’s not accurate to say it’s a reskinned i7.

I guess people are just investing on the greater fool principle, both with pre-revenue software and tech companies, and essentially pre-revenue car companies.

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.