1. All depends on when and how you shop for tickets. I’ve had more than a few flights where economy plus (my requirement; long long legs) to international business is 1k more - and that’s not horrendous when you’re talking a ticket that already costs 2k or so. It’s not a 10k/15k ticket like the old international first…

They do - but so does everyone else (find me a radio that ONLY does carplay/android auto - they don’t exist). Everyone has both side by side - except Tesla, Rivian, and now GM. Tesla can somewhat get away with it being the “first” and having to write all that from scratch (and the cultish following, as well as great…

It’s not 2010 anymore. I have access to the entire worlds music collection - why would I try sticking stuff on a thumb drive?  Between pandora, spotify, youtube music, apple music...  and my phone has 256G of capacity for whatever music I’d want to load on it - and can stream that wired or wirelessly.  Why would I…

stupid bug replying to wrong resposne >_<

https://jalopnik.com/porsche-reminds-everyone-carplay-evs-can-coexist-1850449674

Yes there is. It’s called carplay. Seriously - there’s an API for that. Porsche already released it for the Taycan, so all the folks saying “you can’t get EV integration with your phone” - you’re ~wrong~. It already exists and the manufacturers are ~lying~ to you.

Android Auto and Carplay are free - GM is doing this because they believe there is a $300B (yes, billion) revenue stream there that they should get out of subscription services.  Because I want to pay GM a monthly fee for my car’s infotainment system to not suck. 

You don’t listen to music?  Use music or podcast apps, or audio books? 

Only because you’re paying a subscription is it even remotely better, and there are lots of folks that prefer carplay over the tesla system (and have been several surveys and studies done on this).

Which you can get with carplay and android auto. Porsche just did it. The API is there - they just want the subscription revenue.

Seasonal call (I’m guessing you’re snow belt), RWD only (except in the poorly-selling hybrid model), not high-performance per-say (just excellent looks - it’s a GT), lots of options for folks with that kind of money.

Everything I’ve seen says the bronco is much better on the highway - standard sane steering setup.

It’s the one thing that keeps me from buying one again - 95% of my driving is interstate @ 75mph+, and that’s the one thing it was really not good at - even though I was used to it after ~years~ of owning various jeeps.  It’s just not fun, at best acceptable, and with SO MUCH highway...  I wanted something that was…

They’re a hoot.  That’s why.  People like them, people buy them, people drive them.  A !@#%@ ton of them. 

They’re great on local roads or surface streets.  They generally suck on the highway unless you’re really used to recirculating ball steering - in which case it’s just “meh” on the highway. 

They don’t ~look~ good in these photos, but I suspect they’re better than they seem (and other photos look much better). Given that I often spend 20+ hours a week in my car, it really really matters to folks like me.  Especially since a decent amount of that time is in “mobile office” mode and not “driving” mode.  

Heated seats, better stereo, less pure-racecar seats (matters in a daily for a lot of us), dealership experience, etc.

Trick is that gets you into a BASE M340i. Once you add options, even skipping colors and a nicer interior setup, you’re at 64k for things that come on the Type-S. The AMG is closer for sure - if you trust that little ball of hatred and insanity they call an engine past 100k miles. 

Never seen you before.  Smells like troll.  Looks like troll.  Must be troll. 

They sold every one they imported.  It’s been a low-volume vehicle for quite some time now - the folks that want them only buy them, and they’re not generally trying to attract more buyers (especially given the absurd longevity).