To be fair, being washed out and poor displays was really the standard of the time, no one had really figured out how to get good visible high quality displays that you could also read with polarized sunglasses.

Yeah we had baseball-sized hail in a small part of MN near me over the weekend. If tiny hail counts as a trace amount of snow, baseball size is at least 2 inches in July, right!?

If you’re the type of driver that thinks good handling means you can take a 30mph exit ramp at 50 then you probably wouldn’t notice. So... good to hear BMW is helmed by real drivers then.

No, it was also Fender. They used Fender sound systems for a couple cars including the MK7 GTI, and it sounded pretty good.

Came here to say this too. We have the wagon and it’s been awesome. Folds up nice and compact and the wheels come off super easy to fit into a sedan trunk and it’s held up nicely for us after a year or so of use so far.

A couple hundred pounds isn’t enough, over 5000 for a “sports sedan” is not going to cut it. Go with the I6 and an electric turbo system, maybe 48 volt system too for accessories and start/stop, and get rid of the electric drive. Save 1,000 lbs and have a 600 hp car that can handle like a BMW should.

The US sold 15.5 million cars last year. At the current $7,500 tax credit that’s $116 billion if all were electric. It will eventually get to a point where throwing money at new car buyers is unsustainable and there will be a subset of the population (whether it’s 10% or 50% we’ll see) that won’t buy EV no matter the…

Speed is irrelevant when you can buy a Kia that’ll do 0-60 in 3.5 seconds. Quick is pretty meaningless these days.

The only reason it’s the best they could do is because the marketing execs think they need to posture to spec sheet dumbasses. I guarantee you they said it had to have a V8 and it had to be hybrid, and that’s why they were stuck with this monstrosity.

OK so couple things:

Jesus Christ, people have to get over themselves. 27 cents is not going to cause anyone to struggle any more. If that’s such an issue just do the shopping yourself, don’t spend $100/year on prime and get the stuff yourself. It’s at least a start to figuring out the upcoming problem of funding roads...

I like the Bulgari collab because it goes with my theory that analog gauges that can be legit designed, crafted, and have real mechanics in them are better in every way than a screen with lines of code, no matter how flashy or reconfigurable it is. My grandparents had a 2004 XLR with the Bulgari gauges and it was…

This is actually a pretty cool idea. It kind of reminds me of the modification slider in a lot of racing games that adjusts the final drive between acceleration and top speed. As a kid I’d go all the way to top speed because why wouldn’t you and start losing races because it was so slow, then go all the way to…

Have you driven a modern auto like a ZF, DCT, etc or are you just being obtuse? CVTs feel like my parents’ old Grand Caravan with the 4-speed auto that slipped to no end but if it were actually broken.

I feel like there’s a culture problem with Chevy dealerships that causes these types of stories to keep popping up. From all my experience with Chevy dealers including selling for a few months back in college, Corvettes and hi-po Camaros were always worshipped as these untouchable God-tier cars that no one but the…

Glad to see someone agree with me on the Alfa, I have been talking them up for years and finally put my money where my mouth is a couple months ago. Bought a 2024 Giulia Veloce in Rosso Etna and it’s the only car I’ve caught myself looking out my office window at daily.

See now you’ve got it wrong, it was never meant for track days. It was meant for wealthy weird nerds and retirees to say “look how fast it is!” to their friends as they floor it at every light.

I think this is too tame a solution for a third row pickup. Give the planning to Torch. I could see some crazy sliding roof that would move the entire rear portion of the roof back into part of the bed with the folding seatback being the lower part of the partition and fold into the most forward part of the bed itself.…

I have two:

I don’t really see how luxury car tech would be a bad thing, especially if you’re working on true luxury cars and not like the quick lane at a BMW dealer.