Yea, these are the kind of builds that terrify Porsche dealers, because if you bail before you take delivery they’ll be stuck with an unsellable car.

Agree. Particularly now that all of these supercars are so wildly too fast for normal roads, image and character are a lot more important than tenths of a second. Aston has had a lot of stumbles, but the brand is so much cooler than Ferrari or McLaren.

All of these things are true (and are basically the same points I made in my comment). None of these things mean that Tesla is the next Enron, which is the comment I was responding to. I also probably wouldn’t bet on Tesla at the moment, but to date, betting against Tesla has generally been a losing proposition.

That seems like quite a stretch. Tesla’s revenue was close to $100 billion for the year ending in December, the vast majority of which came from selling cars. This for a company founded only 21 years ago. To put that in context, BMW’s annual sales were about $160 billion, for a company that’s been around since 1916. Ye…

Not only is the Buick half the price of the X7, it’s also objectively far better looking and probably rides more smoothly. The sheer ugliness and crass styling of the BMW definitely outweighs the adult diaper connotations of the Buick brand.

It is quite rare for new cars to have major safety issues like sudden power loss on multiple units. The Fisker story sounds quite different from the typical teething issues that are expected in any product launch.

I wonder if it’s also because Fisker forced the quality control / testing to be rushed, so they could get the car to market sooner.

Except the Ocean is built under contract by Magna. I have a friend who basically had to give away a Karma because it died and he couldn’t get it fixed.

It really is nothing like that at all. Obviously you’ve compared GDP growth, employment, productivity, inflation, foreign trade across all the EU’s major economies against the UK to get to this opinion? You were just told Brexit was universally bad, so you believed it.

Maybe, but compared to the basket case that is most EU economies, the UK isn’t looking so bad. The CEBR forecast from December of last year indicated that the UK will be Europe’s fastest growing major economy over the next 15 years.

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.