3" long wheel weight - that’s insane. (Indicates that the wheel-and-tire combo was so woefully out of balance).

You actually managed to change your wheel/tire in 15 minutes???

The way people are waxing eloquent about how great it is to (be able to) change your own tire - like I said - challenge that underlying assumption.

Chauffeur can’t do it either because it will put their uniform into a non-compliant state with the dress code, which, of course, is unforgivable.

So....what you’re proposing then...is some kind of standardisation and/or international government regulation that will govern the whole thing so that emergency response teams around the world WON’T have to be constantly retrained whenever a new EV comes out.

Huh. Interesting.

I CAN’T picture Kristen Lee being necessarily the sort who would change her own tire. (She probably CAN, but....WHY?)

I wonder how many people OVERALL (not just here) have actually NEEDED to change a flat?

This.

I’m still waiting for someone to tell me what’s the wonderful thing about a manual when you can’t drive more than 10-15 km/h.

Have fun with that in LA traffic. :)

It’s one thing to be able to see all of this stuff in person.

.....hahaha....that’s kind of the point.

...and BMW’s 4.4L V8.

Up front, the fight for packaging space is worse than a friday night, drunken brawl.

However....when you’re on the Deutsch Autobahn, of course, that extra 2 m is still an extra 2 m.

“While the words “car” and “two pieces” don’t sound particularly pleasant in the same sentence, cars like this Lamborghini are said to do it as a safety feature—with a goal of keeping the occupants in the main part of the vehicle intact while reducing the force of a crash by splitting apart. It’s not pretty, but it’s…

“...or bring manufacturing jobs back to the US.”

Yet ANOTHER proposal designed to make rich people richer...

Surprised that he lived to tell about it given that he wasn’t even wearing his seat belt.

Someone should go pick one up from Houston and drop it into the middle of the wildfire to find out.