This article seems deliberately misleading. Most people will read the headline and think it’s about an EV running out of juice vs. the 12v battery that manages accessory power being completely dead, which is a pretty unlikely scenario. And it’s not just the headline, but in the body of the article (e.g. “dead main…

Curious how it manages all of that weight without air springs.

I just want to know if I can pay extra to have the colour of the word “break” match the sport chrono dial.

Second gear: You do have to give VW credit for convincing so many Bentley and Lamborghini customers to buy an Audi Q8, but in wildly more expensive form.

If anything, the opposite is true. Tesla’s market value was always so far ahead of its actual growth prospects. What we’re seeing now is the market recognizing that it is actually impossible for Tesla to grow at the rate needed to sustain its market value. The stock has run up as Tesla grew from nothing to 2 million…

Plus the Ioniq 5 and 6 can’t actually charge at this speed anyway. The charge rate is limited to about 250 kW.

If you look at the transactions on Classic.com (91 cars where the mileage is shown), the mean is 7,500 miles and the median 4,400. These transactions date from 2020 to today, so let’s say 2022 sale and 2005 build year. That’s 258 miles a year for the median and 441 miles a year for the mean. There are some relatively…

Good news is it only costs about $30k to replace the clutch. Pocket change.

They are also apparently quite tricky to drive, because of the ceramic clutch, so the average collector who just cares about looking at his expensive possession probably can’t even get it going without stalling.

This might knock the Infiniti QX80 off the top spot on the ugliest car on sale podium. So, so hideous.

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…