This is legit one of the fastest track cars a novice or intermediate student can put their hands on. This thing will pull away from most factory BMW’s around a road course.

It still can’t see a stop sign, a traffic light, or even a damn car parked in half of a highway lane. Level 3 in a busy US city with ambiguous traffic situations is not possible until the car has on board artificial intelligence.

Because racecar.

The thing about the Miata is it’s an extremely slow track car. That’s good if you want to keep your track days to under $200 of wear and tear. But pretty awful if you go out there in a wealthy part of the country where everyone is pushing $75k and up iron. In any sort of advanced group you’ll be the slowest person by…

Consumer trust in brands is a very fragile thing. Violate it once and it’s hard to get back.

Nothing says GT3 road car like a wagon. No wing, no black series. That’s a rule.

Looks like it will only be in cars with 48 volt systems, so it would start in a car like the A8. I would call them “dynamic dampers with regenerative compression and active rebound”.

It’s like the Tesla is flying blind with a mono-camera.

14.6 second 1/4 mile at 95 MPH. Pay $52k for a maintenance nightmare that ties with a 2016 Honda Civic in performance?

Thanks for playing.

My Porsche Active Safe malfunctioned and a millennial rear ended me. All of these systems are total shit, and Tesla’s is a dog with fleas.

I don’t think you understand the high threshold for consumer product safety in the United States. As Tesla moves down market from buyers with an average household income of $600,000 to buyers with an average income of $60,000, they’re going to find out that idiots are very clever. More clever than their engineers in…

I’ve met a lot of Tesla employees. They all drive Porsches and you should too. Until I see 4000 Tesla engineers beta testing the software on the way to work, I’m going to criticize their program and their corporate ethics. A customer has to crash for a bug report to get filed. While they are fixing the bug, every…

Every car in that category has zero dead customers. The A8. The XC90. The GL550. Tesla killed a fucking customer and instead of changing direction, they cited a bunch of stats about how they’re safer than the average 11 year old car with 45% of dead passengers wearing no seatbelt. A technology that “cloud save lives”…

The A4 has zero US highway deaths like 3 surveys in a row. The point is Tesla views its customers as bodies to donate to computer science, so they can improve their algorithm. Volvo has a vision of zero deaths in a new car by 2020, and they use the same technology as Tesla towards that goal. Tesla uses it as a…

I put a Model 3 deposit in, but canceled when Tesla starting killing people with suicide cruise control and didn’t apologize or vow to respect life. The 2017 A4 and this 3 series have enough techno gadgets to please the most snobby Apple fan, to the point of cabin distraction from all of the screens.

I think the supercharged V6S is the sweet spot there. The Jaguar always feels like it’s about $15k overpriced, and I think the resale shows the value isn’t there. You gotta go Porsche. Plus you get a frunk.

Spot on about the width. Frankly the 981 isn’t wide *enough* in the rear, so much so that I’d rather have a base 991.2 than a loaded GT4. When you carry the weight out back, you want a true multi-link suspension and wide track instead of just a random ass MacPherson strut out back like the 981.

“Mechanical grip - what even is it?” would be a better title for this Gawker level troll. I own a 981. It’s wider than my 2010 S4, which is very apparent when you park it in the same spot. When you strap yourself into something that low, you generally want it to be safe. It’s one of the lightest safe cars you can buy…

These are IOU’s. These are as good as cash.