Here’s the thing, though: If a feature is standard in, say, 95% of the cars sold of a certain model, it’s actually more expensive to omit it with the “cheaper” option. One classic example is side windows in the back half of vans. If they make a sufficiently high percentage of them with the windows, then including the…

Ding ding - this is the correct answer! Popular equipment packages are driven by consumer demand and that makes it more cost-effective to manufacture vehicles with the standard options that we have these days. Most people do not understand that it is sometimes more expensive to reconfigure manufacturing plants and…

You misspelled Audi.

ORRRRR

Plus who hates power locks and back up cameras?

for a modern car without all the electronic features get a cadillac, the electronics will fail and youll be left with a pure driving experience you want. 

I think the Chevy Spark and the Kia Rio hatchback are the last two sub-compacts left that you can buy new. Both come standard with infotainment that has Android Auto & Apple Carplay. If you spend *any* time at all doing highway miles, this is a piece of tech you will never want to be without ever again.

Watch that Lancia Versus AUDI film and say that...  The Grand Tour has been some of their best work, accomplished with an Amazon budget and without the weird politics of the BBC.

Summary of current Jalopnik:

hatin’ and being edgy gets the clicks, now

And Nunavut!

Canada’s Northwest Territories

Texas, because we have a lot of different plates that we can personalize (but most people don’t, which is nice). This is just one of the background examples:

Everyone should be replying to BMW’s “what’s your reason not to?” with pictures of the Audi E-tron and Mercedes EQC.

Okay Bimmer.

This was my comment on your previous post regarding this monstrosity:

For what it’s worth, David, I think you’re plenty handsome.  

Is Tesla still running the Camera and Radar only (no LiDar) play for full autonomy? Good luck with that, Elon!

Heh. Of course Musk can chortle because he did that famous Coast2Coast Full Self Drive back in 2015, which is now the bar that all others must now get over.

The label on the Jaguar should read “Please keep your hands off the wheel while being towed” (That’s more of a classic Jag joke).