I see you have not been on the internet long. /s

lol I used to think it was great.

“Heyhey, I know that thing! Used to race the hell outta it in Hot Pursuit! That game’s probably a huge reason why most folks even know that car, I hope they bring it up in—”

“20 to County. In pursuit of a Scighera, near the covered bridges. He’s doing more than 100!”

I played the hell out of NFS III Hot Pursuit and loved this car at the time. As a young man of like... 11 years old, it looked good to me. Now I think it is fugly.

I don’t think the Impreza Sedan has looked anything other than awful since the second generation - so basically for the last 15 years.

That plastic cladding is all the way along the running boards to the front bumper. Yuck.

I mean, that isn’t how liability works. You don’t need to “consent” to Joe Shmuck going into a Dodge dealership and buying an 800 horsepower Demon, even if he has no idea how to drive the thing and presents an imminent danger to everyone in a 3 mile vicinity of his home. There’s really nothing about Tesla’s fake self…

So what’s their justification for charging a subscription fee for this? (Beyond just wanting your money every month, of course.) Are they claiming this camera system offloads data to cloud computation? I highly doubt that, or it’d be unable to operate when out of mobile data range. The hardware is already on board in…

While I was never really in the market for a Merc, now I have even less of a reason to buy one. That’s some shady bullshit. 

I’m not playing this fucking game. All I ever needed was a steering wheel and a head unit that will accept bluetooth and that’s it. I don’t care about fucking 360 degree cameras and lane departure warning systems and all that bullshit. Give me back my fucking supercharged Elise with a gearshift and three pedals and…

The problem with a subscription model of business is basically that it will do nothing to bring down the entry cost of vehicles. In fact it will only contribute to keep the costs higher and climbing because all cars will presumably come with all the hardware and equipment pre-installed, just non-functional for the non…

well, well, well, time for piggyback ECUs to make a comeback...

The last time Germans had an idea this bad their country got bombed, invaded and partitioned for it.

Can't wait until all dealerships are gone and these benevolent auto manufacturers are just pulling all of my data and have a direct link into my bank account. Good guys, nice companies

A subscription fee to unlock the full steering angle?  The fuck is Mercedes smoking?

Any state that keeps a fucking racist moron like Paul Lepage in power for 8 years is bound to have a host of other bureaucratic shortcomings. The problem is that unlike a state like CA, there’s probably not enough people who own JDM imports to create a large enough backlash.

This is a pretty classic case of Bureaucratic Double-Down. What’s happening now is they realized they fucked up, but are too prideful to backtrack. It’s easier for the government entity to go “Well it’s because we say so”. The only remedy right now is for some Delica enthusiast to sue the state, and then the facts…

So they wait for everyone to forget their news story and now admit they lied so they can get in a “we broke 300” story a second time? Hard pass on any claims coming out of SSC, not going to believe it if they told me they broke 60mph.

Pretty simple really, they had the speedo set to KPH.