Don’t forget the Polestar 5.

You can’t ignore the dealer experience. The product might be good, but buying the product also has to be a good experience. Especially if you are talking about conquest sales to people who would normally buy an Audi or BMW (in the case of the Stinger).

Assuming she’s also not a sociopathic billionaire, she has to live with being the last person to talk to someone while they were dying. Not her fault but I’m sure it will haunt her for years.

They have to be able to enforce the ban, otherwise it’s practically pointless.

Deathspartan117 was asking about the NX, not RX; but I believe they use the same powertrain setups.

The problem I’ve found is that there are very few “good” (subjective, I know) CVTs on the market. Toyota’s is probably the best, but it’s not a transmission that is designed for any kind of performance driving. 

Toyota uses a CVT transmission for all of their hybrids. My guess is that it was a way to smooth out blending power delivery in the early days of hybrids, and Toyota just stuck with it.

The hybrid apparently only weights 50 lbs more than the regular version, so my guess is that the CVT transmission in the hybrid is to blame (the non-hybrid gets an 8 speed). 

That’s the biggest mark against the Emira in my book, it’s expensive for what you get. But I’ve heard that the steering is simply sublime, and that’s something you feel going 35 mph too. So I’m eager to try one and see if that is enough to convince me it’s worth the money.

It’s shameful what passes as “Driver’s Ed” these days in the U.S. For all the pearl clutching this country likes to do about “think of the children”, we sure don’t seem to care about letting them barrel across a highway at 80 mph in a 5 ton truck/suv with minimal training or experience.

it’s not like it could turn out any worse drivers than it already does. 

Kevin O’Leary? How much does he have invested in those ride share companies?

I’m going to buy something “fun” this year. I’ve been looking around and driving a few things I’m interested in. One I have yet to sample is the Emira. It’s certainly not cheap, but maybe it’s all the 3/4 supercar I need (and still available with a manual). They’ve finally released the hold for US customer deliveries,…

Ford also hopes that this time it will get the initial build quality for a new model launch right…

when was the last time you saw a car without a V12 that lost $20,000 to depreciation over just 2,000 miles?

Absolutely true. I’ve been asking myself more and more: “why not just buy the Miata/FRS and save $80k?”

I’m a bit of a hypocrite for making that statement… as I am an addict for the howl of a V12, V10, or flat crank V8. But I am fully willing to acknowledge that a Miata/FRS is way more daily fun on the street than any supercar.

I’m somewhere right in the middle of being an “old dude” and wearing a “flat brim”, and I’m seriously debating whether I should just buy an Austin Sprite or something to similar effect; rather than never being able to put my foot all the way down. Modern cars have too much power. Yeah, I said it.

Those Costco perks are legit though.

Same. Above 820 credit score, and offer was just a hair under 8% for 48 months. Financing a new car is not advisable at the moment, unless you really need to have a new car.