Exactly, a proper new mid-sized SUV would have been an absolute home run for them.

I saw one at the Toronto Auto Show a few weeks ago, and it’s amazing how much worse it is in the metal than in photos. It’s just so ridiculously huge and obnoxious looking, as if the design brief was “conceive a vehicle even less suited for public roads than a Hummer H1.” It also looks fundamentally cheap and somehow f…

To be fair, there’s probably only four or five actual different engines on the list, since many of the examples are just the same engine being used in multiple vehicles produced by the same brand.

My impression is that the Phaeton was MUCH more unreliable than its A8 and Bentley cousins of the same era, but I don’t really understand why. Weren’t all the underlying mechanical and electronic bits the same?

Classic Top Gear episode when Clarkson reveals the cost of the most recent service of his Grosser (15k GBP).

Geely doesn’t own Jaguar (you might be thinking of Volvo). It’s part of Jaguar Land Rover, which is owned by Tata (an Indian conglomerate). Agreed though, it’s highly unlikely that Jaguar Land Rover the corporation goes bankrupt. More likely they sell the brand, or spin it off and reinvent it.

Jaguar is not a separate company though. It’s part of Jaguar Land Rover, so it’s more likely that the range gets pared down, or eliminated altogether. Or perhaps the Jaguar brand gets sold. There is substantial equity in the Jaguar brand; they just need to reinvent it a bit, probably by going up market rather than the…

The messiest part of Red Bull the brand is that the grandson of the founder (of the Thai company that originally created the product, not the Austrian entity) apparently killed a police officer in a hit and run while drunk and high on coke, and was never even charged.

There are lots of examples of people cloning ads to scam potential buyers. I agree, be very cautious.

Those base wheels are ugly, but they do help with the range. I think they are the stock 19s, the smallest wheels you can get on a Taycan.

I think they are turning things around a bit, but have a long way to go. The DB12 and new Vantage look fantastic, but deliveries of the DBX have not been that strong. When I see a DBX, I just think it looks like a bastardization of the idea of an Aston Martin, with proportions that really don’t work. One of the key…

That is an idea I could get behind. A restomod 760 wagon would be fantastic. I’d also love to see something done on the original Saab 900 platform.

That four-wheel drive gives cars more grip.

I would argue that learning to drive in a manual car makes you a more competent and therefore safer driver. However, yes, fully agree that driving a manual is in itself not safer.

Even better, if you get the 997 Targa, you can say it’s a four-seater family hatchback.

I’ve had numerous EVs and not seen any degradation at all. I almost never fast charge, but usually charge at home to 100%, which is really more like 92% I think, given the actual vs. usable battery capacity buffer. My current EVs (Ioniq 5 and Taycan GTS) are both not far off two years old, and neither shows any sign…

Sadly not in the polarized world in which we live, which means people are either bad or good, and the things they say and think are therefore also bad and good.

I do think the Ocean actually looks pretty good, inside and out, and has the right balance between performance / range / size. Being built by Magna should be a huge plus for quality control also, but I’m sure they were just rushing it out the door way too soon, likely against Magna’s objections.

Yea, fair point, it would be naive to expect a good car out of Fisker, but they did at least have the right concept.

Yea, I mentioned this in the original “rustgate” post. We had a white car that I really didn’t take care of since it was a daily runabout. I noticed when I finally washed it that it was absolutely covered in tiny rust spots. I ended up using Iron X, but it still took a long time to get rid of all of the spots. They…