This. Times 1,000,000

I think DSG’s might be the sweet spot right now, or maybe the Nissan toroidal CVT.

Perhaps drive somewhere other than main roads and interstates. You live in Denver you have thousands of miles of mountain roads 30 minutes away.

Correct - no gearbox. Or technically, a single gear from 0 to asplode.

Counterpoint : the hunt-and-peck gearboxes with 7, 8 or 9 gears are just as bad. When you go to overtake, they kick down two or three times and the hesitation in doing so is abominable. Torque converters still exists, hence slushbox. Once you introduce two spinning vane-laden toroids into a liquid, you’re driving a…

Can confirm. First time I ever drove an automatic was in 2001 when I moved to the US. For the previous 15 years, only ever drove a manual. I hated automatic slushboxes in 2001 and I hated them right up to the point I bought my first EV. I tried and tried to buy manuals over here but they’re so fucking hard to find. I…

If you think this dealer genuinely gave away a fully free, no-strings-attached car, you’re viewing the world through rose-tinted glasses.

Because this is the real world, and there is always a gotcha for things like this. No corporation or company is going to do stuff like this - genuinely for free. There will be some tax incentive, or bonus, or hidden payment, or title ownership or something. It’s 2022. No dealership is ever going to “just give away a…

Nope

“Butt warmers require equipment group 312A, which also includes Ford’s CoPilot 360 2.0 Level 2 driver assist suite, a power tailgate and a heated leather steering wheel”.

What’s the catch? Other than PR there has to be a h-u-g-e gotcha built-in somewhere. Like the kid doesn’t own the car - the dealer holds the title or something.

Top 6 compared to the US - shifted over towards CA for reference:

“ Further along the roundabout, traffic appears to have stopped in the center lane for some reason.”

If this award is presided over by the French, you have to consider that their benchmark is Paris CDG, which is an “airport” that should be burned to the ground. I wouldn’t wish that spiteful hellhole of a place on my worst travelling enemy.

Yeah - we’re well aware of cooked brakes here. I live near the exit of Parley’s Canyon in Utah and there’s a constant smell of hot / cooked truck brakes here, 24/7. We do have one runaway ramp and it is used reasonably regularly.

Explain to me : He didn’t own the truck, right? He was a driver for Castellano? So isn’t this their problem that they didn’t correctly maintain the truck?

Good that all these armchair critics who’ve never driven faster than 70mph in their auto-gearbox luxury barge, feel qualified to sit in their basement and criticise F1 drivers. Clearly we should be listening to these ‘experts’.

100% - because it’s not a Tesla. I never saw the fascination with their products after a short-lived ownership of a Model S. Or the Model-Shite as I referred to it. Fuck that was a truly, epically awful car. I was so happy to get out of it in the end.

LOL - yeah they scaled well, but at a cost. Even today the fit, finish and quality is still pretty poor. They’re an IT company trying to build cars, not a car company trying to tech-ify existing products.

Real car company vs. a supervillain who’s at 500% on the bullshit-o-meter and maxed out on the delusion-o-meter.