They’re ridiculous. The fixed armrests and the folding tray tables and the concealed armrest controls give it that baroque, high sheen look of a first class cabin in a transcontinental British Air flight from the early 2000s.

What traffic?

Sienna, no. Alphard.

The best or nothing.

Already this looks so much better than the V90 from the rear, which has always seemed bereft of surface detailing to me. I like clean and handsome as much as anybody, but parts of that just looked cheap.

Say “hi” to Apple and Google and Uber and Gordon Murray in the queue!

Ma-cayenne Pis amirte?

Yes, I do not approve of this “actually pretty good” funny business. This things looks rad through and through; no qualifiers necessary.

How strong must our collective distaste for crossovers be for this to appear anything other than the hopelessly banal turd it so clearly is?

Oh yes, KDSS is probably better for real off-roading. The approach angles are probably better, too. I imagine both far surpass their intended remits, though.

Without using the words “spindle” or “grille*,” can one construct a reasonable argument for getting this over the LX with its significantly better interior and only marginally higher price?

It’s surprisingly difficult to give it a tasteful color scheme without resorting to black or cream.

I like how we’re all outraged by this as if the standard G is anything other than only marginally less stupid. That the steelies and the horizontal grille are somehow any less a product of marketing and value signaling.

Gack! Quality Maybach content incoming:

The main issue, as JoeFromPA notes, is that the whole SUV is so tightly packaged, so finely engineered that much of the vehicle has to come apart for repairs.

(jk)

That one also has hair plugs so eh.

Huh. Ridicule often is a kind of projection. 

Interesting that he makes no America reference in the entirety of the review. (His favorite pastime!) I suppose the lawyer bit is an implicit joke.

He seems so lovely.