Entry level Audi, BMW, and MB aren’t nearly as good of a value as many buyers think they are. You are paying for the badge, and honestly not much else. Buyers are often better off buying a luxury trim level of a non-premium brand when shopping in this segment of the market. In the case of the A3 specifically, it rides…

Some people will have a field day throwing themselves at robotaxis, trying to collect a Tesla payout.

If you want them to be awesome, definitely.

Degradation depends on your manufacturer and their claims. Your degradation calculation for Tesla makes sense. Ford EVs are among the slowest charging in order to preserve battery life and they wall off battery space that they give back as the battery deteriorates so my reserve factor is more like 10% in real world…

Power Racing Series - https://powerracingseries.org/ - has been doing this for years, with a formalized rulebook and everything - IIRC, 40 (!) amp fuse required, and a max budget enforced by allowing other teams to buy your parts at the price you declare you spent. My son competed in this back in 2015 - look for the…

Best headline in a while.

that’s why I said 50 to 100 is plenty for most people without a huge commute. But the main point is that ICE vehicles have averaged around 300 miles a tank, I get just shy of that in my full size V8 sedan, for a long time, so the fact that no most people don’t need all that range, it’s become the expected range…

I had a loaner A3 while my car was in for some service recently. It drove significantly worse than my wife’s Mazda 3, and the interior felt like it was scraped together from bargain basement parts. It amazes me that anyone would consider buying it at all, much less at FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

If it were my only car, I would need a 250 mile BEV due to multiple annual trips to see family. However, 95% of my days I drive less than 40 miles daily, so a PHEV with a 40 mile battery range would eliminate over 90% of my fuel consumption with a 1/5 size battery and zero range anxiety.

Re Audi All-Road

Jim Cramer Advises Against Buying Tesla Stock

I mean, if you just need it for “image” then just rent it on the few occasions you need the image.

Sam Walton drove a late 70s F-150 while Wal-Mart was expanding. Walton’s image wasn’t in his vehicle; it was in the business of his stores.

The Jeep that Kirsten was in her car accident with was a rental. Earlier in the episode, Sandy said her car was having issues (what? An L322 with issues? Never!), so he got her a rental.

I worked in small business banking about 10 years ago and had a client starting a new business, one of his expenses was 6000 a month for a leased Bentley a well used one too, he said he needed it for ‘image’ and that his business would fail without it, turns out it failed before it started as there was no way I could…

I love it when companies remember that things can sometimes be fun.

Very cool but doesn’t make up for the fact that they won’t allow Carplay/AA in their cars. I’d be salivating over the R2 if not for that. 

I have an 89 Mustang with a Pioneer AVIC-D3 receiver; you can customize the screens on it, and one time I did this one:

[Hits “Turbo Boost” button, jumps completely off the road]

It will remain a failure if Nissan is trying to get $45k+ for these things. Way too many better options in that $40k-$50k arena.