For good reasons buyers purchase Porsches new or CPO. Porsche’s. At 72,000 miles the clutch release bearing On my wife’s car (2011 6M Cayenne) died one month out warranty. At that moment we had $65 (puddle light) in all the warranty charges from new. The service manager contacted Porsche to see if he could get some…

I largely agree in all respects but don’t see any discussion of trade ins. I’ve seen buyers boast about how they got big discounts without mentioning what their trade in appraisal was.

Surprised? This is the same company that charged $800 (old money) to add a separate CD player (single disk) when they became available.

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Of course VW welcomes Tesla with open arms. How long do you think it will take before VW poaches some engineers?  Don’t forget the US does not have an extradition agreement with Germany.

If the right front passenger seat would slide to the rear, engage locks to maintain restraint requirements, have the floor rise to seat level and have a couple of lube dispensers conveniently placed you would have something....

MB and MB dealers are making outrageous profits on service work. As such MB often requires the VIN to be loaded into replacement devices to force you to have the repairs done at the dealer and to discourage the use of good but used electrical components. Toyota manages to avoid this practice except on safety critical…

I expect that any car that does 0-60 in less than four seconds consumes tires at a prodigious rate. Surprised Tesla hasn’t offered a modified the launch profile for owners who would prefer longer tire life over stop light bragging rights.

The hatchback version was copied by VW to build the first Golf. In the US it was named the Simca 1208. It was available with factory air that was far better than what was available from VW. I was going to buy one but Chrysler announced that the Simca would no longer be imported. I’ve should have known better, Chrysler…

Power loss is 4% per 1000'. This power loss is due to a loss of oxygen with greater altitude. It applies to all normally aspirated machines and those that drive them.   

Remember the days of Windows 3.11? Rebooting your PC 5 times a day didn’t deserve mention. You were only trying to produce a formatted document. In those days no one dreamed that bad people could find advantage in hacking your computer or just did it because they could. The more complex AV systems become the more…

If your own time is worth $50/hr then the offer is meaningless. Order factory oil filters online and go to Walmart after work (mine will make an appointment). They’ll give you a credit for providing your own filter and offer synthetic oil at a good price. In the meantime you can get some shopping done.  

Dealing with underground porosity is an issue that has been largely solved since the beginning of oil exploration. There are technologies which can seal off limestone structures thousands of feet deep. Also it is likely that the limestone layer will be an manageable thickness with impervious layers above and below.…

The bikes are not particularity well made despite the high cost. Wait to you try to get one fixed. For several months there was no repair service in Houston. If your bike broke you had to send it back. On top of that Peloton would not sell parts to anyone other than an authorized repair facility, even if they didn’t…

You do realize that the Dutch read this and are convinced that we are all idiots. Holland has been successfully fighting rising water for two centuries (don’t use the Italians as an example). There are ways to mitigate this problem but it will take time and a lot of money. The properties at risk are most likely to be…

The problem is not technical but hubris coupled the power of bureaucracy. NASA had to design everything in the Apollo program because no one had gone to the moon before. Designing subway cars is not a moonshot. There are time proven designs all over the world which could be easily adopted. This would cause great…

Mercedes Benz Sprinter Powertrain Comments

Whenever an EV’s published range is disappointing do you notice the lame attempt to pivot the discussion towards “you don’t need that much range any way”?

It did get 280 miles per tank in “Test” mode. I don’t understand why during the test no Porsche personnel would sign anything, wore dark glasses, always wore gloves and kept muttering “I’m not going to jail for this”. Why did the AMCI tech’s speak with a Bavarian accent and wear electronic ankle bracelets?

This is stupid. The Dutch have battled rising water for decades and have yet to be overcome. Coastal property is typically the most expensive and owned by the rich. Their money and influence will assure all that the scary maps showing the massive loss of coastline will never happen.