Equally, no (private) charging infrastructure will be built without the user base to help defray costs. We have to just do it.

(I understand the argument, but it is not as if the primary function of the car is to produce data, as is the case with your typewriter example. The situation here is more akin to something like a smart watch maker owning the meta data it produces.)

Ian Callum seems to indicate nothing’s close to settled yet:

Fairly certain the Mehs have Prius wheel covers, which, ~drama~

I’d love if they focused on luxury. For all its excesses, Bugatti is really good at doing understated (yes) and timeless (yes!) luxury. The Chiron interior is one of the most chic motherfucking things I’ve ever seen.

I was in a rental version once. (As a passenger.) It’s like operating a microwave.

I happened to think it looked marvelous since its inception, but for something so odd, I think the Volvo C30 has aged surprisingly well.

“BBD,” though?

Oh, I don’t dispute that Jezza is a jingoistic blowhard.

I mean, we’re also comparing a disinterested observer to a primary actor; there’s a bias here, too. Not that I know enough to determine which has the factually correct view.

If any 3 Series review ever is to be believed, it is the generation immediately prior. At least in terms of driving dynamics. It’s like the 911 in that way.

Before it leaves the factory, an assembly worker blows smoke up every 3-ers ass. Smoke = mass = science.

I feel like they squandered their lead on the LEAF, too. Though we’re yet to see anyone else follow, I suppose.

Maybe the Groovy Rad Hybrid Vehicle from last year? It’s the least least likely.

No, but in aggregate, though? There’s nothing stopping them from selling this information to a broader database where a more complete profile can be curated on an individual level.

You have miserable hot takes.

“Good” in the singular appears frequently in common usage, which is how language languages:

Something has to be bespoke to be luxurious? An Hermes bag rolls off the assembly line just as any mass market item would, it’s still a luxury good.

I think manual has a “prestige” here, in a suffer for fashion kind of way. If it’s the standard rather than the exception as it is in most countries, that prestige doesn’t exist.

Yeah, rich people are just as susceptible to be taken by their whims and fancies as the rest of us. Unless we’re talking seriously high-end, bespoke stuff, a Mercedes or Audi is just a Honda for people who have more money to play with.