“You can go now” : this is common in most places but it seems less so in America. I grew up with this notion - used it in England, Holland, Germany - everyone understands it. Since I moving to America, I’ll see someone waiting to turn across in front of me, slow down just a touch and flash my lights and they’ll sit…

The Rivian one is interesting given how many long-term order holders are being passed over for newer order holders. They’re creating a lot of mistrust and bad air with their original supporters and early adopters, many of whom still haven’t got their vehicles while sitting watching people who ordered in 2021 and 2022…

It’s 2023 and Gran Turismo still has the most bone-stupid “AI” of any racing game, and they still don’t have damage.  Forza beats it on those two counts alone.

Anything down to about -5C (23F) is fine on a bike. Beyond that cycling becomes less pleasant - at least that’s when I switch to public transport. I know others that could care less about the temperature. Then again, -10C (14F) is about as cold as it gets in a normal year and that would be maybe once or twice. In…

You probably ought to stop reporting on vaporware. Remember : it’ll be here right around the same time as FSD. “Next year”.

I agree with one of their points on the Volvo system - it disengages completely silently so you really have to know what to look for in the instrument cluster or HUD to know it’s no longer providing steering input. Otherwise I found it to be a pretty good level 2 system.

In eight years of owning JLR products - five with a RR Evoque and three with a Jaguar I-Pace, I’ve had to have dealer repairs only once. The Evoque never needed anything other than regular maintenance, and the I-pace needed a new heat pump (which I learned later is apparently a super common failure). From my…

I had the pleasure - back in the day - of being part of the support crew for Jan De Rooy’s Daf X2 team (before 200kmh accident in Theo van de Rijt’s truck that killed Kees Van Loevezijn in ‘88). I was a peon in one of the support trucks - my job was to help pack up the bivouac and re-establish it day after day. This…

In all seriousness though - you really should stop reporting on something that is vaporware. Cybertruck will arrive right about the same time as full self driving. “Next year”. 

So rather than - I don’t know - make the state attractive to EV manufacturers to try to lure an assembly plant or something, just “fuck everyone else because we want to live in the 1900's”?

Americans - as a whole - seem afraid of any car colour that isn’t some shade of business suit grey. The sea of bland, monochrome cars you see in parking lots over here is truly depressing.

Tesla. I had the misfortune of owning a Model S. Absolute junk. In the six months I owned that wretched piece of crap it spent more time being ferried back and forth to CA to be fixed than it spent being driven. (this was before Utah had a local dealer). And their “customer service” are complete clowns. The only thing…

How - by any stretch of the imagination - is any Tesla a “luxury” vehicle? Unless by “luxury” you mean “expensive”?

I’ve had a Rivian R1S on order since they opened the books in 2018 but I’m seriously doubting I’ll take it now. The Polestar 3 and Volvo EX90 are both much better options and we have refundable deposits on those too now. Way more efficient (expecting 2.8mi/kw based on the Polestar 2 real-world stats, vs Rivian’s…

A Cadillac F1 car? So boaty suspension with a 1960's interior, a gearbox/engine combo that accelerates just fast enough to waft the grey hair, but not so fast as to be otherwise perceptible, and a pair of octogenarian drivers? I’d say we’re looking at lap times in the 15-20 minute range.

Investors are like upper management - total morons. Unless you hit the stated goal, they’re not happy.

We have two Kia dealerships in Salt Lake City. One is selling vehicles with no markup, one is adding anything between $7.5k to $15k. Guess which one is going out of business? My colleague had the exact same experience as you at the first dealer. Went to the other one - “sure thing - you can have it for MSRP, no…

This. There are a LOT of potential EV owners who want an EV that isn’t a Tesla. I owned one of the original Model S’s - worst car I’ve ever had the misfortune to drive. I’ve since been in newer X’s, Y’s and 3's and they are honestly still terribly-built cars. And they can’t use “we’re a new car company” as an excuse…

This can’t be stated loudly enough.

“Ignoring the confusion over whether on not Max Verstappen won the 2022 F1 World Drivers’ Championship”