I hate new cars.

The air suspension on my Merc reliably developed leaks at 100k miles.

Thank you for this article, I have long wondered what the point is with these things.

I for one love it. This is leaps and bounds better than say the BMW XM.

My naturally aspirated Merc E280 has a 3.0L engine.

I just wonder if I am the dinosaur who expect else based on a lifetime of being conditioned to what a desirable car should be - or if BMW has lost its marbles completely.

Future car archeologists:

First car I technically owned since my dad insisted that I should have it was a yellow Fiat 128. 45 hp 1100cc engine, got 18 mpg and topped out at 75 mph.

Did it resemble this?

Another SUV.

Well, I was trying to be amusing around the assumption that he actually meant passengers. That it sounded like six people yanking at the steering wheel at the same time.

Meh, a tad small.

Six drivers? No wonder it wouldn’t go straight.

O-T-T-F-F-S?

I see that you interpreted “free things” as “all free things”.

While I generally agree, there is one problem: people do not value free things, and treat them with contempt.

I would rather call this Level -1 autonomy: you have to monitor the situation continuously AND act when a drunk is grabbing the wheel randomly.

If I made a car, it would be named Immortal, and I would design it to last no less than a million miles. Hood ornament: a halo on two horns.

I dunno - if I were dropped into a random unknown environment, possibly and probably the wilderness, the one thing I would prefer to bring before absolutely everything else in the world would be a moderately sized axe.

How about them Mobile Lounges I saw at Dulles?