I looked it up, it’s “When is a car “safe enough?” W/ Philip Koopman. He’s not an analyst, he’s a professor at Carnegie Mellon in electrical and computer engineering. Can’t link the podcast here but guy’s legit if you google him. Philip Koopman: autonomous vehicle safety & dependable embedded systems (cmu.edu)

I don’t think we’re expecting it to be cheaper, we’re just expecting it to look better (subjective I understand) and have better interior quality especially when competitors are much nicer for a similar price.

I mean it’s not really hard to understand. Not only is the WRX pretty ugly as a sports sedan, but its price is creeping up there too. Plus, the auto is a CVT, and the top trim is CVT only, top trim available with a manual is the TR which doesn’t have a sunroof. Stupid optioning. Add to that the fact that Subaru has a…

Yep, and there’s a great Smoking Tire podcast episode (can’t remember the specific guest) where the guest is a specialist in this kind of thing and explains in detail why the “failsafe” system in a Tesla isn’t actually an effective protection like they have in airplanes for their by-wire controls.

Except I don’t believe #1 is true. Most people THINK they want grayscale cars. Like I mentioned above I had numerous customers who gave me their list of wants, including color which was always black, white, or gray. After a few test drives, being wishy washy not able to come to a decision, they’d see one in an actual…

That’s the thing, either they’ll incentivize you to take one you don’t really want, or you’ll have people coming saying “you don’t have a blue one that I want, what’ll you do for me on this black one instead?” Either way they’re making less money. And now with actual inventories people are less willing to wait for an…

I do put some of the blame for grayscale sports cars on car manufacturers, but mostly on dealers honestly. Carmakers have a lot of power in setting trends. What have some of the color trends been on sports cars? Murdered out (made easy by blackout trim from the factory), matte black, and non-metallic grays like…

It’s not about age, the point is you’re comparing everything against basically the absolute best shifters ever made. It’s fair to say a Koenigsegg is the best car ever made. However, it’s unfair to say a BMW M3 is “disappointing” because it’s not a Koenigsegg. Good or bad should be based on the average, not compared…

The article made it sound like it was EV only, and only the rally version is gas. Plus the talk that Lancia was going all-EV much sooner than most brands.

I don’t think we really hated the Supra. I certainly don’t. The problem is, at that price point, it’s a stretch for people who would really buy them. If someone’s wealthy enough to buy one as a second/third/fourth car toy, it’s competing with the A80 along with prestige brands like Porsche. It’s gotta be doable as a…

Wait until you meet BMW fans...

That’s kind of an unfair comparison though. Like saying a Panamera has disappointing driving dynamics after owning a 911. The GTI’s manual isn’t great but it’s not bad by any means. I had a BMW 335 manual and test drove a MK8 GTI as a replacement. Shifter was about as good, clutch slightly worse, but that’s also…

Me too. I mean I absolutely hate Hyundai so I’d never own one, but I do like the look and concept. If it was a Mazda I’d have one already.

Was going to say the same thing. Residuals are going a lot lower not only on Stellantis but on a lot of cars. I actually just leased my Giulia a month or so ago not because I actually wanted to lease but because the rate was so much lower than a finance and so the low residual was actually a good thing in my situation.

The ACC on my Giulia lets you get pretty close, close enough that if I’m coming up on someone going a lot slower I’m always about to brake myself. Cool thing on a lot of the sportier cars too is it’ll accelerate back up to speed harder if you’re in sport mode.

Why haven’t they made adaptive cruise control standard? Because some people don’t like it. It’s the one thing she doesn’t like about my car, that it’s got ACC and you can’t turn it off (at least we don’t know how to). Her Macan is normal cruise and she probably wouldn’t have gotten it if it had ACC.

Ok, it’s pretty cool, but it’s really depressing that 1. we will probably never see any Lancia on our shores ever again, and 2. we’ll probably never see another gas-powered Lancia anywhere.

Mid-late 2000s Chevy Impala. You got about an equal chance the driver is either a rural retired Karen, a bunch of government guys in trench coats, or a tourist in a rental that’s gonna drive it like an Altima.

Similar to the paintball thing, I’d like the ability to digitally “tag” other cars anonymously. How many times do you see someone doing something so blatantly stupid, dangerous, and illegal when there’s no one around that can do anything about it?

Well, WE know that.... The cult of Musk that’s actually buying the things, not so much.