Excellent. Can we now go back to the traditional Jaguar values of long, low, leather and leaks?

Yup, I feel the same way. Subscriptions and licenses... Just let me buy the things! But I guess this is the modern world, where psychology and economy of scale is exploited to the maximum.

Never understood why modern cars with displays can’t just show the OBD2 codes right there on the display. At least on Saabs it was possible by loading modified firmware to the infotainment unit, but I don’t see any reason why the big companies can’t do the same.

Back in the day a friend received a ton of high-end Nokias (6000-series) through his CEO dad when the company was switching to something newer. They were mostly 1-2 years old and their batteries would last “forever”.

Well, hopefully the product will have some sort of indicator independent of the cell phone app that tells the user something is wrong, or about to go wrong.

The reasonable approach would be to have a sort of timer inside the device that resets every time it is able to get confirmation that the subscription is still valid.

You still have plenty of time (30 days!) before the failure of the credit card results in the deactivation of the product, and the failure of any of the other four points will also be obvious before you start driving. Sure, it’s not a good experience to have driven out to the middle of nowhere, only to discover that…

Yup, you’re reading it incorrectly, but it’s understandable considering the messy sentence.

There’s no cell or bluetooth system in the world quick enough for this product to protect you if it needs to phone home at the time of impact before deciding whether to deploy. You turn the product on before you ride, it checks the subscription status and reports whether it’ll arm or not, and then the product…

The response time required to protect you in an impact dictates that it couldn’t possibly check with the phone immediately before inflating. This has to be some sort of “check in every x hours/days with y left of functional time and extend by z”, and given the monthly billing, it would make sense to do the check…

There are not nearly enough >120" wheelbase coupes on the market today.

I spoke with a partner at a big 4 accounting firm who’d gotten his wife an Audi A2 in a similar way, after she’d seen one in traffic and said she liked how it looked different from all other cars out there.

The site does have RC tugboats that get remotely operated from shore.

These are somewhat more responsive than the real deal, but not by far. The idea is to let professional mariners practice operations that would be hazardous to practice with the real ships, and for that they need to behave close to how the real ships behave.

Does whoever designed the Toyota C-HR interior live next to a lake? Asking for a friend.

I got those wheels with an A6 with the S-line package. Good-looking, yes, but their size meant very little rubber and a much too firm ride. Pretty much my first purchase for that car was getting new wheels 2" smaller.

A rich old guy died here, leaving four sons to inherit “never work a day again”-levels of wealth each. Pretty soon a guy slightly younger than the youngest son showed up demanding his share, claiming that their father had been banging the maid when they were young, a maid who very suddenly left.

Good riddance.

It’s fun to compare across generations: The three-seat single-engine Avenger has a gross weight less than half of the single-seat single-engine F-35C.

Current A8