Yep, I wonder how many crashes were from people trying to stop the terrible auto wipers from freaking out with a gentle misting of moisture, and having to navigate to a central touchscreen sub-menu to do so.

Meh, four of us got jammed into the back of my dad’s 2-door Saab 99 back in the day.

It’s amazing how Nissan took something with such promise and just destroyed it. It’s probably been a clean 15 years since they had anything remotely interesting in their lineup. Cars like the Q45 weren’t perfect by any means, but they were like the sporty BMW counterpoint to the more Mercedes-like Lexus. Ditto for the…

I get the sarcasm, and that this is a first world problem, but it’s a product of over-complexity, not of the basic simplicity of the physical key for the UHaul van.

The irritating thing about the Tesla key setup is that when you rent one, they give you the card-style key, which you have to physically touch against the door of the car to unlock and lock, and then place in a particular spot inside the car to get it to move.

The V8 TT S6 is a really nice car. A total sleeper, much more subtle than its BMW or Mercedes peers. There is a 2017 for sale near me with only 54k kms / 33k miles, the B&O sound system, asking $45k CAD / $33k US.

I know it’s not the same car, but one of the most fun cars I ever drove was a friend’s 1999 (I think) SiR (they added the “r” in Canada). He still had it a few years ago and it was going strong, but I’ve since lost touch with him.

Yea, I guess unlikely is perhaps not the right word. But it’s easily avoidable, and very different from the implied scenario of the high voltage battery being drained. Your friend’s situation sounds like they were an unlucky victim of poor quality control. I doubt that’s a typical experience.

Over time, the market is rational. The irrationality of people’s knee-jerk reactions gets smoothed out by time. Warren Buffett said it best, by paraphrasing concepts from Graham and Dodd:

I would much prefer it to have a more traditional hatchback profile vs. the silly “four door coupe” form. I can’t imagine it makes much difference to range, but will eat into the practicality of what is already not a very big trunk.

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.