FIFY.

“When you roll the power on, which I recommend doing somewhere safe”

i like them!!!

And that’s what makes me sad, AMG is supposed to be about doing that kind of shit. Stuffing absurd V8s into vehicles that shouldn’t have them is why I liked them in the first place.

There is a huge benefit. Sound.

I wish they would go inline-six with the hybrid. 

A new type of car by a new company costing over 100k brand new requires an $1800 repair maybe 4 years into ownership.

...get ready for some repairs!

Think of it as making the fuel filter part of the gas tank. We know the fuel filter has to be replaced every so often or the fuel flow chokes off, but this time the manufacturer has made it so you have to replace the entire gas tank in order to fix the filter problem.

I know that not everyone understands what this means, because not everyone does software for a living, or understands how the hardware works.

A better article on this. Gizmodo wrote about this issue more than 12 hours ago with much better details, including two ways owners can deal with it since most cars with the issue are out of warranty and this will cost at least $1800.

A faulty storage device contained in every vehicle, which based on the description of the problem, will have a 100% failure rate over time, and makes the vehicle completely innoperable. Sounds pretty bad to me. 

What do you expect, their a tech startup, not a car manufacturer.

No. Really.
As a professional quality inspector, this kind of oversight is ridiculous.
Planned obsolescence, I get...but of a whole car?

I’ve seen this before. Someone in software is debugging something, ramps up the logging, fixed 6 the problem and either forgets to turn off the logging or the software manager re-tasks the software person to something else. A few years ago I showed up to investigate why a piece of equipment wasn’t working. The 2TB…

Granted this could be resolved with a software fix, but then would they not be able to gather all that data needed to get that level 5 in the next year (is that the most recent timeframe claim?)? 

The sad reality is that things like this happen all the time in large-scale software/tech projects.  It’s good development discipline to log things at every step, though the common practice is to establish thresholds and to operate normally at a somewhat-sane level of logging.  You dial it up to “ludicrous mode” when…

The hardware engineer, product manager, NPI manager, and everyone up the chain responsible for reviewing MTBF here should be ceremonially hung upside down naked, covered in honey, and set upon by a colony of fire ants.*

Or, perhaps, US firms don’t make a ton of cars that work well in Europe? Go ahead, drive an F-150 SuperCrew through the middle of Paris or Milan. You’ll need the bed for all the mirrors you take off.  Not to mention different rules for lighting, crash standards, and those pesky emissions standards that Trump’s EPA is…