Unfortunately it’s not even the line Chapman used. It was “simplicate,” not “simplify,” and it was not an original saying (it was coined by a designer who worked for William Stout).

Lamborghini Countach. Absolutely horrible to sit in, let alone drive. I just cannot imagine driving any kind of distance in one of these without wanting to push it off a cliff (or sell it on BaT) at the end of the journey.

I think it all comes down to consumers just liking things that work well and disliking things that don’t. They really don’t care about the reasons behind what works and doesn’t, the excuses for what doesn’t in particular, or any of the other nuances that might come into play.

It’s also that it wasn’t built on a dedicated EV platform, but instead on a modified Q5 platform. I think this really compromises the battery packaging. A friend has one of the earlier model years, and it is actually an incredibly quiet and comfortable car, but the real world range is abysmal. He’ll often struggle to…

I did say “even without the salvage title.” I wouldn’t call it a good buy at $31k with a clean title. Up close, the interiors and paint of these early Model 3s really wear their miles heavily. I couldn’t wrap my head around paying two thirds of the new price for a three-year-old car with this many miles.

I wouldn’t call this cheap at all. It’s got almost 50,000 miles, and even without the salvage title, if it sold at 66% of its original price (I think they were $46k and change in 2020), that would be very modest depreciation in the normal world of cars being rapidly depreciating assets. I also wouldn’t call 66%…

That’s definitely true. When I cancelled mine, it was apparently taken by the next person in line within a few minutes.

Every Porsche has an allocation before it can be built, so that’s not specific to the T. I do think it’s a great car, and unique in that it’s got the base engine but manual (which as well as being not an option on the base Carrera comes with a unique slightly shorter throw), and the torque vectoring so you can get the…

I had a second generation Leaf, and it was actually a great car. Roomy, quiet, very relaxing to drive and generally delivered better range than the official numbers. I didn’t own it long enough to experience the battery degradation that is apparently an issue, but after almost 20,000 km, the battery health indicator…

Seems a bit pointless driving the air suspension / rear axle steering version, since neither of these options will be offered on North American market models.

I’m not convinced that Lucid has anything that any other manufacturer couldn’t replicate. I think this “news” is just the PIF / Aston / Lucid teams trying to create some hype around two companies that are struggling to survive. Standard skateboard-style battery / chassis? Check. Batteries supplied by Panasonic? Check?…

Pagani makes fewer than 50 cars a year. It’s not remotely comparable to what Lucid is trying to do. Ferrari produced more than 13,000 cars in 2022, by way of comparison.

I get this, but the article the writer links to when he makes the bizarre comment about the Stinger being too cheap is about heavy discounts being offered to shift them.

Sorry, buyers were turned off by the low price? Isn’t it more that buyers didn’t want to pay that much for a Kia, so the only way they could move them was through heavy discounting? So when you say buyers were turned off by the low price, you mean they were turned off by the high price...

Hard pass. Very expensive to run and maintain, and this one is in the wrong colour with a very rough looking interior.

Or maybe they could actually treat their drivers like human beings. As traumatic as this story sounds for this passenger, the issue isn’t bad actors driving for Uber and Lyft (although obviously there are some), but a dehumanizing business model that we all turned a blind eye to because of our need for convenience and…

The North American market is only getting the All-Terrain exact same version of the brand new Mercedes-Benz E-Class wagon, but with ugly plastic cladding and the same precisely zero off road capability as the regular wagon.

I think it’s worth it just because of the looks. The Civic Type R looks way too fast and furious for anyone approaching my age, and the Acura is just so much more subtle. It’s a low rent version of paying a premium for a mechanically identical GT3 Touring because you don’t want to be seen with the giant wing on the…

Don’t you need to consider the battery size for this to be meaningful? The Lucid Air has a 118 kWh battery, and charging slows as the battery gets closer to being fully charged. The Air GT has an EPA range of 516 miles, so adding 208 miles is only charging 40% of the battery (i.e. it should still be charging at a very…

The PDK is objectively better than Porsche’s 6-speed and 7-speed manuals, but I still prefer a manual 911 to a PDK. The argument is not that manual is objectively better, it’s that some of us like the closer mechanical connection with the car. I grew up in the UK only driving manual, and didn’t even drive an automatic…