You know for whom the situation is never ambiguous? A driver who knows whether he wants to go forwards or backwards and also knows how to use a gear selector.

Just what’s needed: Cup 2 R track tires and a huge GT3-style rear wing on a VW sedan that looks like a slightly melted Passat. As ridiculous as this comment reads to anyone visiting the future from 2018 or thereabouts, 550 hp is not particularly impressive either.

I want to say NP, since I have fond memories of being blown away as a nine-year-old by the sound of a Mondial owned by a neighbour (in a distinctly non-Ferrari neighbourhood). But there are so many other amazing choices for a fun older car at this price, many of which can be driven regularly without the same…

One of the biggest issues then is how difficult it is to get through municipal government procurement. If they’ve gone through months / years of “work” to select ParkMobile, or whomever else they pick, it’s probably almost impossible to displace that vendor. It should be fairly straightforward for Hyundai to form…

That would be a major improvement for the single motor for sure.

I’m somewhat sympathetic to this, given how difficult it can be in the real world to get enough grid power for a large-scale EV charging station. It’s often the case that there simply isn’t a quick or even viable way to get a new service with sufficient power for a large bank of fast DC charges. The fastest v3…

Most EVs feel fast anyway because of the instant torque, and given the torque figure isn’t mentioned, I suspect it’s almost identical. The additional horsepower in the upgraded ID4 will probably not be noticeable at all in 95% of driving scenarios, particularly for the kind of commuter trips for which this vehicle…

My mother had a Tipo 1.6 DGT with the digital dash. It was one of the cars I learned to drive in. We were supposed to get the 1.4 with a breathtaking 71 hp, but because of some kind of delivery screw up we got the 1.6 for the same price, so I got to play with 15% more power (82 hp). It was actually a pretty decent…

The screen is probably more expensive to install in the rear than the front as well, since they have to run more wiring back there now. I think it’s an example of doing something less practical or even wanted (seriously, that screen will probably never get used by most owners) because the alternative is Tesla…

Lincoln has negative name recognition. The kind of buyers paying $60k+ for an EV almost certainly actively don’t want a Lincoln. It’s easier to launch a new brand without that baggage than convince people to do a 180 on their view of an existing brand. No matter what product they had, it would be a massive uphill…

Famously piloted by royalty...

Great choice. It still looks modern today, and is just more elegant (and has much better visibility) than newer Audis. The previous generation 200 Avant Quattro was pretty great in its time, too.

I had a friend with an 850 Turbo wagon. Such a great car, and it was flawlessly reliable for the 150,000 kms he had it for, with the only major issue being the climate control going haywire. Even it felt pretty fast and agile for such a practical car, so the R would I’m sure have been fantastic.

I was lucky enough to get a 2008 R8 press car for two days shortly after it was launched in Canada. Somehow people don’t really seem to care about or even notice the R8 these days, but at the time it was an amazing drive and an absolute showstopper in terms of the number of people who wanted to stop and look at it, or…

Base 911s are very difficult to find in general, since Porsche prioritized building more expensive models when they were facing supply chain challenges and enjoying the high demand of the last few years. I would go for a T rather than a base anyway, since then you can get the base engine with manual, torque vectoring,…

Not surprising at all. Take a base 911 and add metallic paint, the Carrera S wheels, sport chrono and sport exhaust, premium package, 14-way seats, leather interior and a sunroof, not exactly an excessive build, and you’ve added over $23k in options, or over 20% of MSRP.

Do you think the buyers who have been purchasing Teslas, Polestars, Taycans, Rivians and Lucids even remember Lincoln exists? The ability to draw in an audience really matters, and I just don’t see that happening with the Lincoln brand (literally the only people I know who’ve bought a new Lincoln recently are the…

For daily drivers where you don’t care about character, engine sound, exhaust note, etc., it really is hard to go back to an ICE vehicle once you’re used to driving EVs. When I had a PHEV (Volvo XC90), I just found myself wishing it could drive in EV mode at all times, and other than a failed experiment with a…

That’s crazy, it was August, 2008 when I was there. Amazing spot.

Sorry I missed this one. I would have included an obscure one - the drive from Ullapool in NW Scotland to East Rhidorroch Lodge, which is mostly a narrow single track, unlit and pretty loosely packed road, and on one side has areas with a steep drop into a river valley. It’s a spectacular setting during the day, but I…