Okay. But it is not as if consumers had access to the technology between the years 2010 and 2014 if they were to purchase the right aftermarket stereo.

I mean... CarPlay came out in 2014. Toyota was one of the last holdouts, but most of the industry hopped on board pretty quickly. I guess those brief four years between then and now were the resurgent glory days?

Yesssss. This is a silly and sexist charade, but if we’re keeping it* I want guys in crop tops.

Not sure how allowing Apple access to the factory system is somehow a boon to the aftermarket. It’s still using their hardware?

I adore the new Lexus look (come @ me, binches) but this is trash. It looks like the Aygo but just worse in every way.

Hey, this thing isn’t too bad looking! In fact, it looks really good.

If this is anything like the i30 N, which has been getting near universal praise, this thing should be pretty spectacular.

On a human level, I think it’s polite and correct to give applause at appropriate moments during and after a presentation. They would be insanely awkward otherwise. But the slavish, fawning, awed cheering, like that which clung like treacle to Steve Jobs’ every utterance, does make me uncomfortable and suspicious of…

...seven-inch screen, Apple CarPlay, a very good optional JBL performance audio system..

I mean... it’s certainly a look. I actually kind of like it. It’s both visually engaging and still surprisingly clean in its execution.

That insane monitor is positively minuscule in relation to the armrest size.

I prefer the C-X75 (It does too count! It got as far as the prototype stage.) if we’re going with cool Jags.

We don’t know this for fact. The Felix Sater emails, in which he claims “our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it” and that he “will get all of Putins team to buy in on this,” was written in 2015. (NYT)

It is quite jarring when a car is updated after a long absence to see how flipping ginormous they suddenly become. Most others are afforded the gradual transition.

Because they built the damn thing.

They interfered in the primary process to further Trump according to Watts’ testimony to Senate Intel. (NYT) Rubio affirms this.

It is omg. Whyyy.

Wait, they’re calling it the Cruise? So we’ve got Bolt and Volt and now Cruze and Cruise? What kind of Dr. Seuss madness.

I am finding it admirably lazy that they seem to have just taken the prototypical GM interior and folded the page over.

I don’t dispute this but I think it says more about the role of novelty in our understanding of value. The more commonplace something becomes -in this instance a design philosophy- the less cultural value it will have. The rich just happen to have the resources to more quickly respond to these changes.