I’m in agreement here. Not only did the CEO go out and experience what it’s like, so did other Uber execs. Did that “fix” all the issues drivers have with the platform? Far from it. But with the execs at least having some idea of what issues drivers face on a daily basis, those issues are more likely to be addressed.

For what is likely a $250,000 vehicle, it does seem sort of lazy and cheap. At least give it an MM stencil or something.

It’s where active-driving sensors like the radar hide. On the Mercedes, the emblem hides it, but on the Maybach, there’s nothing to fake it out. Although other manufacturers like Genesis have done this better by having a piece that sort of looks like the grille in there, but it’s actually just flat plastic.

Meanwhile, in Florida, they’re going to make it illegal for electric vehicles to park at and use EV chargers.

Even Lidar, the likes of which are about to debut on production vehicles - albeit ones priced near $100k - is coming down in price. Tesla would have done themselves a favor by working on reducing the cost to make other sensors than spending all this time trying to make cameras work.

Ahhh...the “Hot Wheels” manufacturing method.

Exactly. The point of this car and things like million-dollar watches is so other very wealthy people know you have them and that they don’t have them.

How long before DeSantis declares one night as “The Purge?”

Right...tell me, which part of that video looked perfectly reasonable? Cutting off the other driver? Brake-checking them? Getting your gun out of the console? Wildly firing out the windshield without aiming?

Those LED lights won’t do shit if you throw them on the ground. LoL.

Also...he created the situation!

Get ready to hear the word “Woke” about a billion times.

This kid, unfortunately, got to the “find out” part. I can’t say I blame the police, though.

Piech was also the driving force behind the waaaaay-over engineered first-generation Toureg.

Fastest minivan you could drive off the dealer lot :)

IIRC, it produced about 180HP at the time, which is still pretty good for a naturally aspirated four-cylinder of that displacement.

I think they eventually attached balance shafts and renamed it. But it was pretty interesting when they took an Oldsmobile Cutlass? I think, prepped it for a top speed run at Bonneville, and managed a top speed of 220mph using the Quad4 as the basis for the powerplant.

And now the latest word is that GM cancelled a twin-turbo I-6 they were developing. LoL.

IIRC, the Grand Vitara was actually a stretched Suzuki Sidekick.

Success in racing doesn’t necessarily mean the consumer version wasn’t a piece of crap to start with.