Mass production may be a misleading term in the context of the auto industry but I would still expect some wholesale savings.

Theoretically that’s supposed to the benefit of mass production, it should make the nickel and dime stuff much cheaper

Pretty sure they are illegal for road use but it’s not an unreasonable expectation to have installed equipment that you don’t use all the time. Brights for example shouldn’t be used all the time either but we shouldn’t ban them.

I think it’s just cars being expensive. You’re talking about all the same-ish compliance for crash test and emissions. Everyone expects a certain amount of refinement to be equivalent to a regular option. Mandatory sensors and cameras. Then you add 4x4 to the mix to the tune of a couple grand. And after all that there…

No one is surprised, we just all had over/under bets going for how long it would take. What is surprising is how “donations” are legal in the first place. Maybe not surprising... bewildering? 

This last snow storm a few weeks ago my old Baja got my dad and one of the surgeons he works with to the hospital, that’s a nice thing to have. Wrangler would do that job and then some but goes way beyond the every day needed capability compared to a Subaru.

I know it was naïve of me to think Prodrive would do something a little more mass market but is this not basically a kit car? Tube chassis with sourced engine, transmission, and axles? I know I’m understating what goes into making one of these but I was really hoping it would be in the Rally Fighter range like $100k

Yea the rooftent is overkill most people I know that car camp have built out trucks. I’m in Colorado, out here the Subarus see lots of soft-roading from the hikers and bikers and the such. They have also been very good to me in the snow so I wouldn’t call it an overinflated sense of need by any means. I think my…

The comparison is mostly meaningless as the Jeep will be more capable and the Subaru will see more actual dirt

I was really excited until I got to “...a car which is expected to retail for a million pounds”

Don’t forget Cadillac’s favorite marketing ploy, 32V

hah good one! 

Kinja is still being kinja today so I have to give you my star in writing

Why are they still making their air vents look like buttholes

At a high level he’s correct. You should probably bring online domestic capability before damaging your ability to procure something the whole country relies on. 

Please give us a poll to vote on write submissions. Should be a fierce a close call this week, as soon as I read “architect” my mind instantly went to Volvo or Lexus SUV

I don’t care much for the take in the article but I did just see one of these in the same color in person the other day. That forest green or whatever it’s called is gorgeous.

Yes and no. While I don’t doubt that whatever added financial burden can be passed off on their customer base since they are up market cars what Tesla might not be able to afford is any sort of delays associated with the supply chain of all these widgets. As much as we discuss idiots crashing while on autopilot the…

The touch screen should still retain all it’s features but some of those features need tactile redundancies 

I not read so good. But seriously Torch I would be interested in an in depth look at about the parts that the touchscreen eliminates. So interested in fact that I might actually pay attention and read it all unlike this one. And that wasn’t a dig at you, that was a dig at my attention span. For realzies though we have…