Holy smokes, I had no idea there was a previous gen that was even WORSE hahaha

This last point is 100% on the money. They should also factor in weight (the indisputable enemy of efficiency), but then discount for hybrid or pure electric.

I kind of liked the shitty transmission in the first gen Smart. It was so bad that you had to try really hard to work around it. I found that fun. Putting it in manual mode, hitting the shift + button and then timing a throttle lift for about 1.2 sec later when the trans responded and then timing getting back on the…

DC resident and Car2Go member starting back in 2012 here and my take is a little different: Similar to their ability to park, Smartcars filled a hole I’m not certain is actually there.

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There are some problems with trains, but none of them are worse than air travel over here. Just took a trip where I too a train from London to Edinburgh that had free wifi (even tho I still had cell service), stopped 4 times, was hitting 110-115 mph between cities and took 4hr 50 minutes from the moment I walked into…

Amen. Musk breathes wrong and Gawker sites jump on him before his next breath, yet they have an issue that impacts their user base for this long and they don’t have the sense to say anything... Talk about a lack of leadership. Even candidly saying that there is a problem they dont yet understand and they are working…

Poor lad musta been blowing some serious Yorkshire pudding beefers into those cloth seats to need that kinda spray  

That’s a reasonable question. But the mere existence of the spiciest version of the Q8 (Lambo Urus) signals that all reason has long left the building 

hey guys, let’s see if we can bunt our way to .500!!

Except now the Lambo SUV is just a spicy Audi Q8, which is different than getting a light version of a Lambro in Audi clothes.

A Lambo hot hatch would still make more sense than a “Mustang” SUV

I thought the point of buying the Audi version of the Lambro SUV was to not look like less of a dickhead to the plebs and to have an actual tastefully designed, excessively powerful and pointless SUV?

Yeah, sod the 6 world championships... 

I’d love to see the Jalopnik headline if this was the Tesla Taycan being compared to the industry standard Porsche Model S. They’d be hucking turds at it so fast, rather than making the irresponsible conjecture at this infant stage that it’s going to be more reliable than a Model S to make up for the huge range…

Correct. And from a homologation standpoint, so is Subaru Tecinica International. This is the point.

Funny how Mazda didn’t have any problems with the Mazdaspeed models which were built at a different factory back in the day. Or Merc with AMG models going back into the 90s. Or the TRD and Gazoo cars. I feel like Subaru didn’t play the game correctly here. They chose to play US certification in hard mode by treating…

A facelift doesn’t change the fact she’s the oldest gal at the bunnyranch by a couple lifecycles 

Again. The only difference is that it is mid-engined now. It’s always been all the other things you’ve said above.

“They’d be crazy not to capitalize on the Corvette brand and heritage and make an electric SUV” - Dickhead Consultant Esq