The credit is deducted by the dealer at the time of sale, so you don’t even need to claim it after the purchase. However, I think they place an import restriction on buyers for this exact reason.

Commented on the video review, but it’s worth repeating here. This car is so much cheaper in Canada - equivalent of $58k US for the loaded, six-passenger model. And on top of that the feds here give you a $5k CAD credit.

Yep, came here to make the same comment. The SA I work with at my local dealer said it would be a disaster to lose the ICE Macans, since it’s the bread and butter that ensures they consistently sell volume. The EV version is way too expensive to generate equivalent volumes.

Another in a long series of Jalopnik clickbait bad takes. I go to BaT every day, and see pretty much the same mix of exotica, classics and sports cars, along with a few quirky normal-cars-with-a-twist as has always been the case. The idea that this CRV is any indication that the mix of cars on the site is changing,…

Given that inflation is not yet under control, Elon might get to claim that he was using 2018 dollars when he first spoke about the $25k car. By that time, $40k might be the new $25k.

Wow, the EV9 seems to be much better value in Canada. I priced out the Land AWD with the six-passenger seating package (part of the Canadian premium package). It’s $78k CAD here ($58k US), compared to $73k US on the US configurator. And that’s not even factoring in the $5k Canadian federal EV credit.

It exists to prove the people who said it was a stupid idea wrong. Unfortunately, its existence provides incontrovertible evidence that it was a stupid idea.

Look, don’t let logic get in the way of the strident moralizing.

The V90 is one of the best looking cars launched in the last few years. I don’t understand why anyone would prefer the plastic clad faux off road XC version.

Six-year-old ultra luxury SUV experiences depreciation. Hard hitting investigative reporting right there.

Was the North American Focus the same as the European one? I know the body was the same, but did it have less sophisticated suspension? One of the best steering and handling FWD cars I ever drove was a manual 1.6 Focus Hatchback rental, which I remember ripping through Scottish backroads years ago. It was genuinely…

Yep, worst, and also not forgotten for anyone who knows anything about cars, so the headline is idiotic on two fronts. I remember all of these cars, and I specifically remember that they pretty much all sucked when new, and none of them have improved with age. As you pointed out, the Sirocco and ATS might be the…

Car salespeople don’t make this kind of money, with very few exceptions. The survey respondents are almost all owners / dealer principals / sales managers, not guys working the sales floor.

Not really surprising with the XC40, since it’s $10k more than the base ICE version, and dealers likely just find it easier to sell the ICE car.

I think it’s also that the car business is a very difficult, low margin and highly capital intensive industry, hence the reason why the late 20th century was dominated by car companies going out of business and / or consolidating. It was always nonsense that EV startups were really tech companies where the rules of…

Weird headline. The EV stock bubble burst pretty spectacularly a long time ago. Lucid peaked in November of 2021, and had already lost 90% of its value by December of 2022. Tesla is just too unpredictable to call, since time and time again it’s thwarted any attempts at a successful short strategy and defied logic.

Chrome wheels should be an automatic ND. Add in all of the suspect modifications and terrible respray, and it’s hard to see how anyone would want this.

I was referring to the Infiniti lineup, not the Nissan-badged models (although I do also think that there is very little with any appeal in the Nissan lineup).

Luxury.

Yes, crazy that the company that made the EL and CSX ended up being the more successful sport / luxury brand.