I mean, he wasn’t wrong about the Hemi. That motor has to be a boat anchor for the brand compliance wise, especially if no one buys anything else you make.

The cold weather issue is being largely mitigated by cars with heat pumps that are massively more efficient. also, 10-80% charging times are dropping like a stone, with some cars nearly reaching parity with gas fill-ups. After 200 miles of driving I’m definitely taking a little more time out form behind the wheel than…

Are you sure about that? Motors and parts absolutely lose efficiency with wear. Maybe not 10%, but there is loss.

Guys like Timmons (R-SC) are why I hate that party so much, and congresscreeps in general. He wants to end the USPS contracts and the “mandates” but the factory in his district should be spared.

EV batteries have 90 percent capacity after 100,000 kilometers of driving, and at 300,000 kilometers they still have 87 percent of their original kilowatts left

I will never understand the love those Dodge Magnums get.  It’s classic “put the RAM grill on every damn thing”-era Dodge and it looks like an elephant sat on the back.  So tragically ugly.

The miles make this probably a little lower but that thing is clean which makes up for it. My store traded in a ‘93 with 95,000 and it’s a little rougher but overall still good shape. $17,300 for that one. The market on these is higher than what we had originally thought

Unless the ratio of remote drivers to remotely-driven vehicles is 1:1, there’s gonna be problems. And the cost of paying a remote driver for every remotely-driven cab is going to be too high.

So the ONLY way this works is if you have a human sitting there watching the entire drive from start to finish, apparently with their hands on a game controller style steering wheel and feet on game controller pedals, basically doing nothing but looking at a screen for, what musk hopes, is the vast majority of the…

Oh yeah, this sounds great. It won’t be one remote driver per one cyberdeathtrap. It will be one to a hundred.

When they get notified of an issue, they’re supposed to find the right deathtrap, assess the situation and react correctly. Sure, that makes sense.

That assumes zero latency but we know that’s not the case.

Ye…

Yeah this has bad news written all over it. I’m sure they will operate at a loss to make it seem like an affordable option at first. But what happens when they actually want to sell them to consumers and are inevitably still highly reliant on these remote drivers?

1st gear: Where will these “drivers” be located in? I assume First Lady Musk won’t hire American employees for that. Imagine some guy in India (nothing against people in India) try to take control of a car driving in Massachusetts on the Pike at 5pm. Only Massachusetts drivers know the unwritten and unspoken rules and…

you beat me to it...This checks most boxes for me.  Like a cross between a mini and the new small volvo.  Its a little funky, not an oversized pickup (or truck at all)....pretty close to a hot hatch. 

Jaguar, Maserati, and Alfa are the three brands that never had a shortage of  cars on the lot even during peak pandemic. There was an Alfa dealer near my old house that had a perpetually well-stocked lot, and I bet you could walk in there and haggle your way down to a cheap lease deal on a Giulia any day of the week.

There are similarities though. Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth seem hellbent on forcing wood on innocent people.

I’m still more concerned about being shot by someone with road rage

My cousin, who knows absolutely ZERO about cars, has owned Subarus for the past 25 years because someone once told her ‘Subarus are good in the snow.’

Now that you say it out loud, $1000 annually for maintenance on a classic vs a monthly payment and a warranty on something new doesn’t seem like that bad a deal.

Great car, but with that mileage and the fact that a modern Camry will probably run circles around it I just don’t see the joy-to-expense value of this thing. At half the price it’s a cool toy; at $20K it’s an anchor around your neck.

While I’d agree that E39s aren’t going to lose value in general, I think the mileage on this one makes it riskier. If the maintenance covers all of the pain points and a lot of the “just old car” things, it may be a decent deal. But if something breaks, you’ll have a nearly 200k mile broken BMW. If you want to drive…