Remember that Raptor price is misleading as it’s for a cloth seat extended cab model that no dealer stocks.

Ford isn’t going to be countering anything until 2022- they have to get the new F-150 out next year and then they can focus on the Raptor. Odds are with the ‘22 Raptor it will keep its 3.5l V6- but if the Ford GT is any indication, maybe that’s OK.

To be a total downer, my brother and his wife are epidemiologists and they say we will be living in the current pattern until likely next summer before everyone is vaccinated. Assuming the vaccine covers all strands too. Reports of Covid-19 in India being vastly different to that in Iran, to Italy to the UK even.

I know someone who has leased the same model car every three years for the past 15 years. The only reason he is not going to get the same car next year? The car doesn’t come in a manual anymore.

“I may not be able to tell if the car is operable from Public property.“
This is a good public servant doing his duty and not being an ass.

David, Inflated and Plated, Tracy sounds so nice.

I feel like the fact that most cops and ammosexuals wear those fucking hideous Oakley shades exclusively should be a marker for antisocial personality disorder in the DSM.

That photo is everything that is wrong with policing in this country.

I think MB, at least, is called out for it.  But this is an article about BMWs, so it makes sense to mention BMW, here.

Hot take: this is the most intelligent thing BMW has done in a long time. They are going to make two different cars: 1. the gas engined car that the opinionated say they want, and 2. the electric car that the opinionated say they want.

It’s gets hard to tell what is a distinct model line, but it seems like MB and Audi have nearly as many, and it’s at least close enough to not specifically call BMW out for it.

While Porsche’s active chassis controls in the Taycan are impressive, it and all its competitors will still be very heavy for a while. I feel the first entity to deliver real driving pleasure will be the one who can make an everyday performance electric that doesn’t weigh two tons

In the US, BMW has 17 distinct model ranges, and that ignores all the M and convertible variants. That is more than any other german manufacturer. Even Ford and Toyota don’t have more and they compete in many more segments of the market. Seems a bit unnecessary for a company that just makes luxury cars.

Is BMW a full-line automaker making vehicles in all segments from the tiniest, cheapest runabouts to gigantic luxury barges with all the trimmings?

They did it last year. Kind what Fiat did with Abarth. I think they what to kill Seat everywhere except in Spain (only place where they sell more than Skoda), because two models planed to be released as Seat, are going to be Cupra with no reason, the Formentor and the Id.3 twin

We’re so close to the E L E C T R I C F U T U R E. Electric trucks and induction charging are going to completely change the game in the next few years. 

No, they won’t be paying those prices. They buy in bulk. But they may well happily pay for light truck EVs. Not every light commercial vehicle is an interstate flyer, and even at $2 a gallon, the difference between paying $50-$60 a day for gas and $5-$8 for electricity turns the premium for buying an EV into TCO…

I’m with you on that. While undeniably cool what is the actual market for open air pickup trucks? Would the 4door Bronco with the back seats folded down not do the trick? 

this seems kind of a weird thing to do, since they already have the Ranger.

we sell a decent enough number of them. its not a sales leader by any stretch, kind of a niche market vehicle, but it sells better than the compass and renegade do at my store, by quite a margin.