The manual has never been available on the 992 base model. At launch it was only available on the Carrera S and 4S models. The only way to get the base engine with manual is on the Carrera T.

I’m right there with you on what I look for in a daily driver - quiet, comfortable, unassuming and practical. The best part about driving an EV really is the silence and smoothness, much more than the instant torque and acceleration.

Nothing against an ES300, since it is comfortable, pretty quick and likely to be very reliable, but do Lexus really think they are kidding anyone when they say you’ll turn heads driving one of these? The only heads that will turn will be those of pedestrians who think you might be their Uber Comfort ride.

That puts them even more firmly in the total pieces of sh*t category. Stealing from someone trying to make a living by hustling as a delivery driver, and who almost certainly is living paycheck (sorry,“fees paid to a happy and spiritually empowered small business owner who definitely isn’t our employee”) to paycheck,…

Yea, I just drove from Toronto to Cleveland and back, and was able to charge relatively easily at the Electrify America chargers on the I-90 (although notably out of three charging sessions, only one of them charged at anything like the advertised speed - I was able to get nearly 230 kW on one of the 350 kW chargers).…

I’m not talking about “small vehicles,” but rather “smaller vehicles.” The examples in the article include the Volvo EX-90, but clearly Volvo XC60s sell pretty well (more than the XC90 in most years). One of the most popular ICE segments is clearly compact and mid-size SUVs, where the buyers were obviously not put off…

The logic that EVs aren’t selling because they aren’t big enough is bizarre. If this was the case, then wouldn’t all smaller vehicles also be slow sellers? There are two reasons EVs aren’t selling better: they’re still much more expensive than equivalent ICE vehicles; and potential buyers are worried about where they…

Yes, I came here to say this. The Audi Quattro is the definitive answer to this question. However, I would pick the original road-going version rather than the group B rally car, since the road car was what really made regular drivers aware of AWD cars. One day I’d love to own a later 20v version (‘89-’91 I think) of…

These had 250 hp when new, not 168.

Yea, these had 250 hp. I really wanted one a few years ago when they were much newer, but even then I heard stories about poor reliability.

The main thing Tesla did was use extreme hype to convince investors to subsidize massive losses while batteries were simply too expensive to allow EVs to be profitable when sold at somewhat comparable prices to ICE vehicles. This is the main thing Musk deserves credit for - creating the reality distortion field that…

When it has:

That analogy doesn’t really work, because the marginal cost is trending up not down with EVs. Batteries aren’t experiencing some kind of Moore’s Law of price / capacity. Between 2013 and 2017, Li-ion battery costs really did drop sharply, but the price curve really flattened out, and is now going back up, or at best…

The Cross Sport seems like such an odd choice. You can fold the third row down in the regular Atlas and have an extra 40% of trunk space over the Cross Sport (55.5 vs 40.3 cubic feet), and then have the third row for when you need to cart around some extra kids. And you get the added benefit of not looking like the…

On my most recent charge to 100% on my LR AWD Ioniq 5, the indicated range was over 550km (340 miles). You can get 300 miles easily with fairly normal driving. The Taycan range is much better at higher speeds, but overall the Ioniq has outperformed our expectations.

On my LR AWD Ioniq 5, my indicated range is often 100 km more than the official range. I do think these cars will do better than the EPA range in the real world.

Those seats look about as high quality as the fake leather seat covers you’d see in the back of an Uber X.

A better deal is riding a bike so you don’t have to own a car and pay for gas or insurance. An even better deal is walking so you don’t have to buy a bike.

It really depends what your expectations and priorities are. A Countach is objectively difficult, exhausting and uncomfortable to drive. A 1970s or a 1980s 911 isn’t in the same performance league as a modern 911, but it still has lovely steering feel, a great driving position, sounds great (much better than a modern…

I don’t think the Lotus name is meaningful to many buyers, and those who do know it are thinking about lightweight sports cars, not generic looking electric SUVs. If someone showed me a photo of the Eletre and told me it was a new Hyundai or Kia, I wouldn’t think anything of it.