You are aware this will drive up the costs of used cars as well, right? If you drive up the cost of new cars, more people will look to the used car market. More buyers in the used car market means prices go up there as well.

Just about, their SC assembly line specifically is very modular. They could switch from building cars to export to building cars for the NA market pretty quickly. It would probably cost their local suppliers big-time though because I doubt they are agile enough to make that switch without incurring big losses.

BMW’s SC assembly line is very modular and very large, I wouldn’t be shocked if BMW just stopped exporting their X-cars from the US and flipped to assembling knockdown kits of 2/3/4/5 series alongside enough X cars to fulfill the US market. So you might end up with a Ford Edge that costs the same as a 340i.

V6 engines are, by default, compromised engines. They require extensive balancing just to prevent them from ripping themselves to pieces. You only use a V6 because an I4 won’t cut it and a V8 can’t fit it. You aren’t going to convince me that an engine that is actively trying to rip itself to pieces is the greatest…

so is their name Mumes or Grisk? maybe Grusk?

And people bitch about BMW’s inflated engine badge sizes. Meanwhile Mercedes is over here inflating engine size by 77%.

Second. No V6 should ever be in the running for best engine of all time.

That they were about to beat the shit out of him because it looked for all the world like he had been beating my Mother, thanks to his bandaged knuckles and her black eyes.

*several venereal diseases. And lice.

So this more saved me by proxy. At some point in the ‘70s(I was born in ‘83) my father had a BMW Bavaria. He was driving with my mother, he had a seatbelt on she didn’t when a drunk ran a redlight and hit them head-on at 50+mph(so a combined closing speed approaching 100 mph). If you know anything about cars from the…

Lane departure, if properly programmed, can be pretty good. One of the less observed things it does is promote the proper usage of turn signals. If you fail to activate your turn signal while changing lanes it gets angry and starts shaking the wheel. If you do use your turn signal though it does nothing. I had it in a…

My father worked in the Philly shipyard, albeit years after the Philadelphia Experiment supposedly too place, as an electronics apprentice. He actually has a fairly plausible explanation as to how it the conspiracy started.

Lack of brake ducts would do it. Bringing a 5,000lbs car dumps a ton of heat into the rotors, and if you don’t have any ducting to direct air over them to cool them off, you could easily cook even the freshest of brake fluid. Looking at some pics online, it does indeed appear the Model S lacks brake ducts(as well as…

That car went 3 laps. While that is better than a model S, it is far short of what an M3 will do. The only other report of a Model 3 on the track I’ve found was that it went 9 laps and completely ate its brakes. The car they are expecting to go up against the M3 will weigh more, and have more than 2x the heat…

This and the whole ‘stash a pitcher in the outfield’ thing are some of the neatest ideas to roll out of a managers brain in a long time.

C&D’s other big beef with the Model S was that the brakes just went to the floor after the first or second hard braking. It never gave up entirely but the pedal apparently got super-soft. It was still fairly quick though, running around the same time as a Hellcat until it went into limp mode. It’s final time at VIR…

Well the trick is to just not tell your insurance company you track the car and get track-day insurance to cover the gap. If the car wrecks, you file with the track-day guys not your insurance company. It usually costs about the same as 1 month of normal insurance for the 2 days, and a second driver is free.

Technically, wouldn’t it’s class basically be itself? I can’t recall any other electric performance sedans in the $78k +/- $10k range.

The payoff for having to replace the cooling system as PM is that it’s nearly impossible to overheat the car as long as the PM is done. I’ve done HDPEs in 100+F temps and it never even skipped a beat. Other cars were going into limp mode after 10-15 minutes but I was going full tilt for 30 min with the A/C running and…

aside from the thermostat(which just has a heater line), there aren’t any electrical parts that need to be replaced along with the refresh. The Radiator, pump, thermostat, and expansion tank cost ~$350 if you go with the OEM parts, you can limbo under $300 if you dip into OE parts. Adding in all the hoses costs…