Now I look silly.

Gnaw gnaw gnaw.

A good point! Although I don’t think anybody would even begin to suspect that a company would be so reckless. Not even Tesla is out there trying to reorganize the world’s container standards with its Semi.

Yes. What I’m saying is that they keep this wonderful creation in their back pocket but refuse to sell it. Bastards.

I mean, they could just put an aero panel (no cab) to achieve the same effect. Like a sort of shield.

Volvo readily admits these things are here as “conversation starters” so I’m fairly certain the lack of consideration to aero is just a tactic to get the point across about its autonomy.

Which is weird because Toyota already has a cool ass EV.

Yes, this looks awful. Even the Regal TourX thing that inexplicably finds praise here looks better.

Releases, not locks.

Well, the owner, a neighbor, and a fire brigade didn’t know to check the floor. Maybe it’s not as intuitive as you like to assume.

Should it boggle the mind more that there are companies making electrical release door mechanisms on top of which they produce an additional mechanical fail-safe that the owner needs to consult a manual to know how to operate?

Like a trailer in water? Sounds rustic!

Yeah, it’s looking a bit

BMW has really lost its way, I feel. They’re still over-correcting from the Bangle years and still somehow making them look overwrought.

The air vents (?) beside the screen remind me of Saab vents.

What’s worse is that they carried over the chrome detailing of the suicide doors but removed the feature itself. So now the window trim looks like a manufacturing error on the production car.

i feel like it’s notable that everyone else has access to the same market information and yet no one else has followed Ford’s lead in nixing all its cars.

And you only know to do that because that is the control scheme that you know to be operable. Isn’t the driver here doing exactly the same? Using the control scheme they were misled to believe was operable?

Splitting hairs but that’s more an Outback competitor.

Yes, it’s possible. But given the decline in sedan sales, one would think the Golf should take priority. (Only in comparison does the Jetta sell well.)