Its only a fuckup to the extent that the UK can’t negotiate and implement NAFTA-style settlement with the EU to keep the free flow of goods moving. I’d be pleasantly surprised if the UK could pull this off, given how the May government has mismanaged the whole process, but maintaining free trade while protecting…

Agreed - not digging the Audi-meets-Dom Toretto front end.

(not replying to you so much as the responding comments to you)

In 2004, the Subaru WRX STi put out 300hp. The Ford Mustang GT put out 265hp.

I think there’s more to it than a badge. You’re correct about the gadgets; comfort/convenience tech is not a huge differentiator these days. What makes a luxury car then, besides the badge? I’d say power (typically more, sometimes much more of it than a comparably-sized mainstream car), NVH, interior design and…

Elon is the Trump of car execs. He may be a nutcase, but damn is this not entertaining.

I like it. Porsche has taken a massive leap forward with their interior over the years, from did-GM-design-this (996/986) to solid-but-not-in-line-with-price (997/987) to very good (991/981/718) to outstanding (Panamera).

1st Gear: Seems like another admission by GM that 1.) they don’t know what they hell they’re doing with Cadillac, and thus 2.) their priorities for the brand shift according to whatever is trendy, rather than coming up with a plan to leverage the brand’s strengths and sticking with it.

Was pumped about this car. Two things are holding me back right now, though.

That’s what I’ve been noticing. It’s the same beef I have with cyclists (the hipsters who ride around on fixies, not sport cyclists) - but magnified: terrible road manners, disregard for traffic norms, cherry-picking pedestrian and motorist laws on a whim in order to have it both ways. Ride through a red light across…

Am I for anything that takes more awful drivers off the streets and frees up parking for yours truly? Yup.

Perhaps he should spend more time looking into we are transferring billions of dollars worth of military-sensitive technology to Red China through the aerospace, technology, and capital goods manufacturing industries rather than this colossal waste of time. I don’t see the Germans, Japanese, or South Koreans trying to…

Am I the only one who’s less excited about the 48v hybrid system and more excited about the inline-6? Glad to see another automaker besides BMW arranging six cylinders as the laws of physics intended them. Screw V6 engines.

I absolutely hate the fake exhaust trend

Probably quite often. My then-GF had a mild fit when I got a Mustang GT in red instead of black or gray.

Blade Silver is nice, but if I were dropping coin on a McLaren I’d have to go non-grayscale color. Their three “Volcano” colors (yellow, orange, red) are irresistably hot. Ditto for some of the MSO colors (Burton Blue, Lantana Purple, Papaya Spark, etc.). I do like a couple MSO whites/silvers they release for the the…

Agreed re: GT Silver. That’s the one grayscale color I’d consider on a Porsche.

Absolutely love it...until you get to the back. The back looks like a Chiron is birthing a 488.

Isn’t California given an exemption by the EPA to set their own air pollution regulations under the Clean Air Act? Couldn’t the Trump admin solve the two-regulations problem by simply revoking the waiver? Seems like a reasonable solution to me.

I’d support killing the entire CFPB off (it’s unconstitutional) and re-enacting the anti-discrimination law legislatively instead. Markups should only be allowed based on creditworthiness IMHO.