What parts are you buying that are failing in less than 5 years?

You’re better off buying a real quality part once than going through their silly warranty process to buy another cheap version which is going to do the same. Nothing with the name “URO” should be fitted to any German car unless there is no other possible…

Every Craigslist south of the Mason Dixon?

The FCP euro warranty is a joke.

But yes, at a certain point the car becomes a known quantity. Everything that goes wrong with them is understood and documented. At around the 15 year mark parts hit peak saturation and most things are very inexpensive.

It works fine if you’re paying attention. I’ve logged 400 miles with AP driving. It helps you drive so you can focus on situational awareness (like barrier in front of you), it’s not a replacement for an attentive driver.

People however are programed to be as lazy as possible so they trust the machine absolutely and…

I’m not an expert on this so I’ll tell you what I’ve read.

I has to do with the Tesla system not having LIDAR and not having the range to detect upcoming objects (as easily)

This is from the Tesla manual:

I’ve driven both. There’s not much advantage to the turbo V12. I own a V12 E38. I’m very much in the pro (NA) V12 camp.

I stand by my opinion.

My M73 is just like that with the slave ECU.

The V10 TDI is done the same way as well. It’s built like a pair of 2.5l 5 cylinder TDIs with a slave ECU. It was developed using mid 90's, it debuted with the first Phaeton concept car in 1999 and sat on the shelf while VW designed the Touareg around it.

The biturbo V8 in the new S Coupe is so ridiculously over powered and refined I can’t see much real reason for the 12 other than bragging rights. Before the biturbo era this was not the case.

That’s what the first two generations were. Two inline 6's with seperate computers that happen to share a a block.

He knows GM won’t make a stink. GM wants the press showcasing their HP figure. He has a social media following, the GM PR team are not idiots.

That 755 is going to be a -3 sigma number. They’re not going to ship a Corvette where 1/2 of them make below rated hp.

The Tesla system can not detect stationary objects at speed. 

Nah, assuming those are 700c wheels on with 25mm tires and the truck is going 60 mph he’s only turning 762 RPM.

For a bearing that size that’s nothing.

Show me a motorized bicycle doing 60+ mph.

That’s not how any of this works.

Anti Tesla articles get a ton of press.

We the Moodys credit rating drop it’s fashionable to shit on Tesla right now. It’ll flip in a week I promise you.

The (formerly) Gawker writers are not very original, including the Jalopnik crew.

You never went small enough. The Fiesta 1 liter beat the pants of it’s EPA rating (diesel style) while being much nicer to drive than the 4 cylinder.

If you give people a turbo 1.6 that’s +40hp from the base engine they’re going to use it.

The economy regulations need to go. The costs of these fuel economy technologies are both making cars less and less affordable (GDI particulate traps I’m looking at you) and takes a substantial amount of R&D time and money away from BEV projects.

The BEV cat is out of the bag, relaxing economy standards is not going to…

If you’re riding a motorcycle “around town” you’re missing the best part of having a bike.

You can impart FAR more torque on the transmission by not matching road speed to engine RPM and letting the clutch out hard. You can all but float shift the stock transmission of you match it all up right. People rushing shifts and banging gears (as I’ve said 3 times now) is the issue.

If it was engine torque…