Those heroes would roll your ass and leave you bleeding in a deserted parking lot, the blood black on the gravel under the orange sodium lights, chips of quartz shining through like stars in the night sky as your eyes struggle to focus and you pull yourself to your feet to make the walk of shame to beg someone to use…

Are you high? In what world should we accept egregious vandalism as a “cost of doing business”? If someone ever breaks into your house and shoots you, I assume that’s “cost of owning a home” then? No emergency service involvement right?

But your mention is almost inaccurate by its vast omission of more details. BYD dominating in China due to its tariffs is a BIG component as to why VW sales have declined so drastically. Carrying massive debt is also very different than obtaining investment capital. I agree with the original reply - not implying…

Why do automotive journos so strongly support the CCP? No mention of the economic protectionism (50%+ tariffs on auto imports) that is just fine for China to engage in but no one else, especially not the United States. Furthermore, there is a complete lack of recognition that BYD is subsidized to the hilt and allowed…

Most people are buying too nice / too expensive cars for their incomes and then compound it by getting loooong car loans.  

Honestly, as soon as you said New Jersey is furious, the program earned my full support.  

This car feels like such an own goal. 

Yes, they don’t haggle. But the car was priced $600 less than comps, and they offered $200 more for my trade than I anticipated. Not a huge deal, but it caused me not to feel the need to haggle, which is 100x better than haggling.

Alcohol doesn’t change personalities, it reveals them. Some people are natural buttholes and alcohol reveals that. Some people have to work on being that way and the alcohol reveals that deep down, they aren’t jerks.

If the goal is ultimate performance then why get the convertible?

For reference, the 1993 C4 ZR1 had a sticker of about 67k, which equals a little under 150k in today’s money. I don’t think it’s fair to say this is “too expensive for a Corvette” considering what it offers.

Eh. Minnesota here, but I’ve lived all over. We get to 100+. Not nearly as often as you guys do, but we do get there. What sucks is that we also get to -30, real temp, and sometimes lower. I remember when I moved here the first time decades ago, waiting for the school bus with a windchill of -50.

This is standard industry practice. Every new car review you’ve read happens this way, only we disclose it up front.

In my experience the only journalist I’ve seen on a press trip who paid for airfare and lodging was WSJ. We don’t have WSJ money, so we accept Audi’s invitation and disclose it up front.

I didn’t love…

Sorry, I didn’t test that. 

I have yet to see a new Z, and I live in FL where retirees come to spend their children’s’ inheritance the money they saved during their career on playthings.

There are almost 350 million people, and only 20k were murdered last year, or about 0.005%. Seems like a big waste of taxpayer money and resources investigating these crimes.

“When we say do something you fucking do it.”

My point was that the iPhone was NOT an innovation. It was a flashy repackaging of existing stuff. Same as the iPod, or anything else Apple did after the Apple II.

Tesla, no contest.

Counterpoint: He is smart in exactly zero ways, he is a conman and a snake oil salesman who got rich marketing the ingenuity of others.