This is what I don’t get - isn’t it incredibly stressful to have to learn what it can and can’t do? Particularly when there is an infinite range of scenarios that we can encounter on the road, many of which require instant understanding of context and a similarly instant reaction? Ultimately none of these systems can…

Perhaps it can do those things, but it does not do them well or safely. My most recent Enhanced Autopilot experience was with a 2022 Model Y rental. On UK motorways, it constantly nagged for “make slight steering adjustment,” braked way too late for my comfort for slowing traffic, and could not reliably change lanes.…

The idea that hordes of people are dumping their Teslas onto the used market because of Musk’s Twitter antics is pretty silly. This is just a wishful thinking conflation of circumstances. We’re at the end of much of the supply chain chaos that drove up car prices. There is much more EV competition. Some Teslas were…

Nobody other than the almost 500,000 people who bought a new one in the last three months.

Thanks, I missed that news completely. I thought the base price still had to be under $45k, but I see it’s now $55k.

Plus the Teslas don’t qualify for the Federal $5k rebate in Canada. Unless you need the charging network, it’s hard to justify getting a Model Y instead of an EV6 / Ioniq 5.

Red Carpet, Diamond Red, Chroma Caviar and Blue Panther.

Nobody else thinks it looks a bit like an Urus?

The other issue with the 911T is that many dealers are prioritizing builds with lots of options. In Canada generally no ADM is added, but the dealers are pushing for heavily optioned Ts, which sort of contradicts the thinking behind the T in the first place. I cancelled my allocation (which had more than $40k CAD in…

The only person I’ve met who owned a Carrera GT drove it all the time, and eventually wrote it off on a track day. A few have hit the market with high miles (I think there was one with 65,000+ a few years back). There are more real driver owners of these than many other hypercars.

If it’s not a vehicle you buy for the performance, why is BMW making such a big deal about it being their most powerful production car ever? And if it is a vehicle you buy as a rolling fashion statement, why is it perhaps the ugliest BMW out of a generation of recent very ugly BMWs?

Munich claims this is good for a 3.7-second 0-60 time

Really unfortunate news for the guy who just needs his Carrera GT to get to work and doesn’t have a backup vehicle.

First Gear: The UK was one of the more extreme examples of how MPGe gets abused. Many people in the UK get a company car, and the “benefit-in-kind” tax on these vehicles is linked to CO2 emissions. Drivers could choose PHEVs with nominally very high MPGe ratings, never plug them in and still get the tax benefit. I…

McKinsey is in the “give me your watch and I’ll tell you what time it is” business. Their job is to extract the maximum amount of fees from clients, not to be arbiters of what will actually happen. They don’t really “believe” anything, so much as they know what pitch will be the most compelling way of extracting these…

Virtually all the unicorn commentary on these issues takes it as a given that battery technology is changing rapidly, similar to computing power improvements in the last few decades. Batteries are actually an extremely mature technology. What was available in a 2012 Tesla Model S is fundamentally very similar to what…

Might be an idea to comment on real-world range when you’re reviewing an EV. Given that this is basically a less practical but more aerodynamic version of the Ioniq 5, it would be good to know if that trade off translates to better real range.

Have you tried using Electrify America / Electrify Canada? It is a sh*t show of broken chargers, error messages, an app that tells you chargers are available only for that not to be the case, charging speeds far below the advertised power of the charger, etc., compared to Tesla’s network that just works, pretty much…

No, they are not. Losses are on the income statement. The income statement doesn’t reflect capital investments in plant and property, except through the depreciation and financing costs of these items. You are probably referring to profit margin in the sense of gross margin (i.e. direct expenses of manufacturing the…

First Gear: It is again shocking that small sedans and mid-sized electric SUVs priced at a point that isn’t too far off the average US vehicle price sell in much larger volume than ultra-luxury EV sedans.