Yep, the average CGT can continue its regular life of residing in a climate controlled car hangar, never being driven.

I’m talking about the policy in Wales, which applies across the devolved nation to every road “with lamp posts placed not more than 200 yards apart.” This does not just include “dense urban environments.”

It’s a little unfair to dismiss all of this pushback as conspiracy theories, when many of the actual advocates of these policies have been found to be willing to push all kinds of falsehoods. The ULEZ expansion in London is a case in point, where there are multiple instances of the Mayor’s office rejecting studies on…

I’m assuming the 1980s QP is more reliable than the BiTurbos of the same era?

This seems like a really odd take. Sure this car has high running costs and the build quality is poor, but it’s nine years old and sold for 20% of the new price. Your suggestion is to buy a different Maserati that is nine years older for only $4k less? The buyer who wants a fast luxury sedan is also not the buyer who…

I still love the Honda E, limited range notwithstanding. If I lived in London, it would definitely be a great city car for avoiding the congestion charge, whipping around narrow streets and parking in tight spots.

But I guess the CyberTruck does show how badly things can go if you try and put a wildly impractical concept vehicle into production.

I’m not much of a Tesla fan, but if Tesla had released these concepts, with the kind of breathless hyperbole that’s parroted in this “article,” I’m pretty sure the writers here would have mercilessly mocked all of it. As you say, this seems to show that Honda is entirely unserious about EVs, if all they’re doing is…

The owner is just waiting for it to come to life as a self-driving taxi, as promised.

A slightly more reliable way of scratching this itch would be the second generation (1992-98) Ghibli, now eligible for US import since they are more than 25 years old. There are a few in Canada, since we’re allowed to import and register anything over 15 years old. There’s one for sale not far from me (and this same…

People keep making this argument, but it only works if there are actual margins. Lucid is nothing like Tesla, because Tesla had positive gross margins on pretty much day one of the Model S. Lucid has negative gross margins on an extreme scale - they spend 2 - 3x times what they sell the Air for just on the direct…

Ask anyone who has tried to order a Lucid which model they were able to get. Lucid made a grand total of... 12 Pures in 2022, and then it was crickets for reservation holders until some cars started trickling in in mid-2023.

The cheaper version only went on sale this year. Most of the Airs sold to date have been the Dream and Grand Touring editions, for $140k - $170k.

explaining that Lucid had to launch the high-end Air and Gravity first because of the costs involved in setting up a new car company

It is really sad. I’m originally from the UK, where the police certainly aren’t perfect, but the simple fact of them not carrying guns means they are (a) better trained at de-escalating potentially violent or confrontational situations and (b) fundamentally motivated to de-escalate, since they can’t just shoot someone…

I can’t remember the source for this, but I read once that the best thing for a large company CEO to do is... very little. And then take credit for the good things that happen. As annoying as this might be, it’s probably better than the CEOs who come into the role and say something asinine like “we need to be more…

Yet somehow my Ioniq 5 has the heated / vented seats and steering wheel in a sub-menu on the touchscreen. And bizarrely you can preheat the car from the terrible Hyundai Bluelink app, but only the heated steering wheel can be turned on, not the seats.

For me the issue isn’t so much turbocharging as the other stuff that has accompanied it, particularly in the 911. The turbo in the 991.2 Carreras actually sound pretty good and is obviously so much more torquey than the 991.1 naturally aspirated engine. The bigger issue and what was lost from 997.2 to 991.1 is the…

As recently as a couple of years ago, you had to spring for the incredibly expensive 911 Turbo to get a turbocharged engine.

I’ve had Apple CarPlay in several vehicles, the first being a 2017 XC90. The only issues I’ve ever had were the slightly flaky wireless connection to CarPlay in my 2019 X5. Otherwise CarPlay has worked perfectly over tens of thousands of kms of driving. It’s just not credible that GM will do a better job than Apple.