If we were even at 20% new cars as EV sales, public charging would be an absolute nightmare.

“If it is your commuter car, you’d better have a 40Amp+ charger in your garage or dedicated parking space.”

Why is your one example proof of that?

You know what?

To be fair, you didn’t even pretend to read the article. Also you used “to” instead of “too”. In your place, I would not be too eager to throw stones in the glass house of Dumb.

To be fair it did have a emergency release; she was to dumb to use

Some of it is just driving a style. My wife loves the adaptive cruise control on her Subaru. I hate it. It follows too closely at low speeds, and follows super far at high speeds (I’m talking seconds of spacing, not physical distance exactly). Therefor I always feel it slows down way too early when I intend on passing…

Is there anything that tells you the doors don’t open and you can’t use the AC during the update? I can totally sympathize that a person might not know what happens when their car is updating, since “updating a car” is still a relatively new thing that no one knows about.

Amen. I can’t tell you how happy I was when I figured out how to turn off the adaptive cruise on my Tacoma. 

Um, excuse me? I will not have any Zonda Slander here, this right here a beautiful machine.

She could use the 26 pounds of makeup she has on to write a note on the window if things get really bad

You pump out thousands or millions of cars, you will produce some turds, Large scale manufacturing doesn’t keep its building processes that consistent that well over time to have never produced turkeys. It’s inevitable.

Saab.  Sure, some were better than others.  Some were more Saab-like than others.  But none of them were bad.

As someone working for another car manufacturer and doing mechanical engineering for battery packs this article is quite funny. But I can see where your confusion is coming from. This time at least it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

Hold on- so this is not coming to the US? What is the point of Jalopnik reviewing this car then?  Just to show us all the good stuff we are missing?

I don’t know if it’s the high belt line or the clumsy looking face of the Passat, but does anyone else think this wagon looks a bit... derpy?

I went from a car with keyless access and push-to-start to a car with a traditional key/fob.  I didn’t think it was going to be a big deal.  Now that it’s been years, it’s fine, but if I’m paying new car money, it better have keyless access.

ugh i just threw up in my mouth

How sweet would a ranger sized R2T be...

Considering Legoland has had full EV carts (Volvo-badged, even) in a trackless area with full driver control for decades now, even as a kid Disneyland’s Autopia always seemed hilariously outdated.