I would never wear a seatbelt because of that one time you go over a bridge and submerge.

LOGIC!

“It doesn’t look like anything else on the market.”

Aside from the headlights, it looks exactly like every other truck on the market. But I get it, you’re drunk.

The site is trolling while appeasing its dwindling reader base which is largely rollcoalers, fantasizers about running bicyclists off the road, and people that exhort destroying natural terrain with offroading.

Oh look, a Jalopnik article about Twitter.

Twitter comments are a cesspool. News at 11.

Holy sweet cannoli, some of these people attacking Musk.

It becomes Buick or Cadillac.

Mercedes already had problems with being an “old” brand, or even worse an “old woman” brand while affluenza males got BMWs.

This would put it on hyperdrive.

Mercedes will basically look like (pre-iq) Cadillac and Buick in a couple years: generic crossovers everywhere, each 5% larger than the previous class.

So there’s the criticism.

Of course, zero alternative solutions besides “hey lets keep funneling money to the oil companies”.

Thanks for your help and guidance!

And gasoline Atkinson cycle engines in hybrid powertrains are just as good as diesels from what I’ve been told for economy.

BMW will probably just hop on VW platforms as a fallback / stopgap when they need to.

Even if that is the plan, that’s a cynical long term strategy, and I can’t see why the leadership team won’t be canned in 12 months like the previous one was for EV procrastination.

Yeah the Mini-E was probably them previously “being serious” and it has a range of what, 150 miles?

Serious EVs charge fast and 300+ real world miles. 

Every new car dealership is a used car dealership that side-dallies in new cars.

Breathless coverage of an inferior product that won’t even come to America’s shore and wouldn’t have a long range charging network if it did.

Tuning for hillclimbs is probably the opposite: You don’t need to cart a long range battery for 12 (very uphill) miles. So some 100Kwhr monster is just wasting weight, kind of like the rocket equation.

The suburbs are utterly unsustainable. But you’re a climate change denier, amirite?

The days of that are over. BMW’s last CEO was shitcanned for squandering whatever EV progress they had, and activist investor groups will be all over CEOs to produce change.

VWs dieselgate may have been a blessing in disguise, because it moved the culture of the company much more rapidly towards adoption of EV.

BMW…

How does any of that forgive lack of over-the-air updates? Seems pretty straightforward given the constraints.

Is that almost all due to EE thinking they are superior to mechanical engineers who look down on materials engineering who look down on the finishing group which is just “marketing” to them?

GM has been price dumping its Bolts. And they still have the massive problems with dealers hating EVs.

And GM, despite having a huge dealer network to setup charging networks, don’t have a charging network.

Without a charging network all non-Tesla EVs are secondary cars only.