Yes, came here to say this - 20% VAT will be included. All UK prices are required to include tax and be “on the road,” including any other charges / fees.

Or the i4 M50. Probably a lot of urban / suburban customers for the S4 who are cross-shopping EVs. The M50 starts at $67k, which is close to the S4 Prestige.

So it’s a huge issue, but there isn’t any actual data to say it actually is a huge issue, and the data that does exist (from Electrify America) says it isn’t a big issue... But there is a couple in Florida who think someone might have it in for them.

A good counterpoint to the “cars are so expensive now” argument. In 1990, a base BMW 325i was $24,650 US, which is $57k US today, or slightly more than a base RWD M340i. The M340i has more than twice as much power, accelerates to 60 in 4.4 seconds vs. 6.9 seconds, has luxury equipment that was unheard of in 1990 and…

Yes, this was maybe peak Top Gear. Mind-blowing that they could actually do this (and get the budget to do it), but also with the key elements of it being slightly low-rent feeling, with sheds and cups of tea mixed in with the actual rocket science. It also felt far less contrived than many of the later big stunts -…

Not the worst of the worst, but pretty close to it.

The only possible explanation for this is that a Mercedes executive has a “really smart kid” who works at Urban Mobility Solutions.

Agree on the Model Y. The ride quality is really awful and I don’t like the user interface. For me these are dealbreakers. But for a roomy car with lots of equipment, a great EV powertrain, and access to the best charging network by several orders of magnitude, it’s easy to understand why it’s popular.

Seriously, go out onto the street and survey 100 passers by. Ask each of them if they would prefer a Subaru or a Tesla. Return here with the results.

I think the GranTurismo S had the automated manual as standard until 2012, and then as an option (with the ZF auto as standard) when it was replaced for the 2012 - 2019 by the GT Sport.

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.