No, it’s silly. I can’t understand why you wouldn’t go with the base model and save $10k, or pay a few thousand more for the S.

Finally .. FINALLY .. a review that totally beats the crap out of a car. I like that. And I like you, Stef Schrader.

I have to think they’d share the platform with Cadillac. If that’s the case, Cadillac has positioned itself pretty well in Asian markets — is this to sell $200k sports cars to the Chinese market?

Wait, really?! I must have missed it on the options list.

Heated AND cooled seats are an option in the Merc tho right?

I don’t see the lie in that — tech disrupting and destroying conventional labor patterns of taxi drivers should’ve produced us with self-driving flying cars, but instead we got part-time gigs available to anyone. I think Uber misrepresented how much drivers could earn, but that’s different from knowing people would…

I always thought the whole idea of UberX was that it shouldn’t be the source of your living wage.

Fake grills and air inlets/outlets.

Is this an Asian market thing, where the whole name collapses into a few characters?

I share WhiskeySnob’s position that Ron has let us all down by failing to maintain his cars, but Color-Commentary’s right: those analogies are terrible

I’m usually quite inconsiderate with rental cars, but this thread made me think about the last time I had one:

While I don’t agree that SUVs need be body-on-frame, I thought the X7 was based off of a BMW car platform?

I know it’s a throwback, but I really don’t like the grill redesign. The 2016s were so much prettier.

Why is that music like that

Agreed. And it’s funny that investors have thrown money at these companies for them to just turn around and give it away to riders.

I’ve always thought a 5 Series is about as much car as one could ever need. I just can’t imagine spending some $25-30k (let alone $70k!) more for a similar driving experience ... like, why not plop it down on a second-hand weekend sports car? If you’re *really* a car person, there are much more interesting and…

It’s harsh, he coulda just messed up. In either case I feel bad for the guy.

These posts make me so sad.

Well, at least we’ll know what traffic is like in LA and Connecticut.

Subprime housing tanked because banks used packaged mortgages as collateral against short-term debt. That isn’t happening here. High interest rates are indicative of a system charging appropriately for risk — it would be worrying if people who couldn’t afford cars were able to get cheap financing.