As the owner of a Ghibli S Q4 and a Tesla Model S P85D all I can say is that’s great. The only thing the Maser has over the Tesla is engine sound. Other than that the S decimates it in 0-60 and 0-100. The S costs zero to maintain. The Ghibli requires a $1000 service every 12,500 miles.

This store encapsulates my problems with Jalopnik. The car has both intermittent wipers as well as rain sensing standard. The UI you’re seeing isn’t a customer facing product as right now all of the Model 3's in existence are in the hands of Tesla employees.

Tesla owner. The car doesn’t need to be plugged in to pre-heat. One of the benefits of an electric car is never having to step into a.mn oppressively hot/ cold car ever again. That and they heat up instantly. No waiting for an engine to warm up.

I have thoroughly studied the man and the companies. Please provide any eveidence (not speculation) that supports this theory.

But I think it’s fair for me (or anyone else) to assume that you’re responding within the context of the article which would seem to suggest you think he’s a dickbag because of this when in reality he’s not doing anything wrong.

Why? Because he wants to bring an ide he suggested to life? You realize this “dickbag” is allowing other companies to use the trademarked Hyperloop name with no intention of stopping them. This dickbag opened up Tesla’s patents to other companies to further the advent of electric cars. There are so many unconventional…

I rag on RED for their prices, planned obsolescence and needlessly expensive proprietary peripherals but to say that people aren’t shooting on them just isn’t true and they are largely reliable though not completely without fault. They have had issues with cooling I believe on the Scarlet and Epic but offered a fan…

Patrick, how did you like the Bose Panaray system?

What does this have in common with the Phaeton? The Phaeton was a monumental flop but also somewhat of an engineering marvel. This is just a front wheel drive Volkswagen. A nice looking front wheel drive Volkswagen but a front wheel drive Volkswagen nonetheless.

I think you missed the joke. ;-)

This seems likely. At cruising speed you probably wouldn’t be able to discern between engines idling and engines off. So they probably pulled the power to idle and descended.

You can override emergency braking plus it’s not really designed to avoid an accident from a stop being that that’s a time where the driver is assumed to be paying attention.

The point is not so much that the Tesla avoided an accident but that Autopilot is able to see a stopped car a few cars in front of you.

Exactly.

Accidents happen for a variety of reasons but generally accidents like this happen because people aren’t paying attention. In the event the driver in the Tesla were not paying attention this would have alerted them and eventually hit the brakes for them. A direct parallel can be drawn to the car in front of the Tesla…

The interior was the sole thing holding me back from buying. I was coming from a recent stint of Audi A8's and BMW 5 series and the spartan Model S interior was a step down. A year later and I can say it doesn’t bother me nearly as much as I thought it would but I do find myself missing the cockpit of the 5 series…

People like me? What kind of person am I?

Yes. I own a P85D and I’m cheap as snot. I don’t mind spending money but nothing bothers me more than getting nothing for my money. Parking tickets, fees like this, my wife asking me to buy apples and then nobody eats them. That stuff melts my brain.

Was it truly that offensive to you?

I can appreciate that but I think I spelled out pretty early in my article that I owned the 535 after the M5. So it wasn’t a matter of someone striving to marginalize the difference between a higher performing car and their lower performing car because the better of the two was out of reach. The 535 was just the…