“100% grade” is a 45 degree slope. 

For the Scout cars to be eligible for the full $7,500 tax credit, the batteries will have to be sourced and assembled in the U.S. I think the switchgear being VW isn’t terrible, as long as they really do stick with actual buttons and knobs. I’d be more worried about the software UI, which VW hasn’t done a fantastic…

Excellent point, and if the ID Buzz is any indication of what we can expect from Scout, then the pricing will be problematic too.

Competition from imports and economic pressures in the 1980s forced US domestic automakers to innovate and to focus on smaller more fuel efficient cars. There were major technological developments during that time. Congress acted to set limits on imports of cars during that time; which is what prompted some Japanese…

I think these are both compelling offerings, but I also think the real issue here is that they are still 3 years away from being on the market. For most buyers Scout might as well be a completely new and unknown brand.

It’s quite something… folks like to complain that sports cars are getting too expensive, but I would actually argue that it’s these types of cars that have really skyrocketed in price of late; and a lot of this is just profit margin for the automakers.

I also just noticed that this officially makes the Navigator a good bit more expensive than the Escalade (which starts at $88k).

Or… it’s smart for Ford to offer you a perk that they know you will basically never actually use; that way it costs them nothing in the end.

Apple didn’t “fail”, they decided it wasn’t a market they wanted to try and compete in. In fact, it appears that some of the innovation we are seeing in the Chinese EV industry may be thanks to Apple:

Jim Farley praising the car his company is lobbying our government hard as hell to prevent U.S. consumers from buying.

Stock is up over 20% right now…

Stock is up over 20% as of right now. Crazy how much hype this company trades on. 

Oh, I absolutely agree with you that “FSD” as currently configured isn’t going to work on HW4 either (or ever really). But Musk and Tesla aren’t going to come out and say that, they’re going to milk that stock pump for as long as possible. Robotaxi is really just a continuation of this same pump, as it relies entirely…

Elon back to projecting 20-30% growth, promising millions of new cars that don’t exist yet to be on the road soon, and claiming “FSD” is just around the corner.

Actually I don’t thinks that’s the target anymore. The 911 might have been the target for the previous generation AMG GT; but I think the new one is aimed more at Aston Martin and Bentley. MB made it less of an outright sports car and more of a grand tourer. The new GT is really an SL coupe, they just aren’t branding…

I agree that the previous generation AMG GT was the better looking car (especially before they made it all puffy hamster cheeks for the R versions). It also seems like the new one is more of a GT car oriented towards comfort, whereas the previous one was really aimed at being a dynamic sports car. I guess MB concluded…

Especially with the significant depreciation we are seeing on these luxury and premium EVs, it makes a lot more sense to shop in the used or CPO market.

Volvo did that for a while with the V60 and V90, where you could get one if you ordered it. Would be nice to see more companies offer that option; but I suspect that won’t be happening. 

Sounds… inoffensive; which is pretty much par for the course with Audi these days. A good interior, a not so outlandish exterior, and a competent driving experience but not the sharpest.

Agreed. I said the same about the CLE review. I’m not entirely convinced that adding all this extra weight for the fancy tech actually makes the car better to drive than just optimizing the car around less weight by foregoing that stuff.