The problem is the way that BMW has the software written you have such a small buffer that if you live in a hilly area the battery easily runs down to nothing, resulting in the range extender going into emergency lawnmower mode.

Run it up a hill. I just bought one and took it into the mountains. Foot to the floor and my top speed was 36 miles per hour with no acceleration at all.

No, no it’s not. The car doesn’t auto-summon and the story in the article a) doesn’t show a car that drove itself into cross traffic as you seem to suggest and b) was clearly demonstrated by Tesla as being completely false. The guy said he wasn’t in the car. He was. He said he never initiated the summon feature. He…

It has already happened? Can you point me to that story? Because to me it sounds like you're floating a load of garbage.

The 60kwh Model S had a 208 mile range when introduced. A presumably lighter, smaller car would be able to use less capacity for equivalent, if not better, range. I’m no engineer but basic math seems to suggest that GM’s numbers are wrong and even if it’s up for debate, it’s not as if what they’re suggesting is…

Didn’t Jalopnik run a story with exactly the opposite sentiments when this same complaint was made about the new Quattroporte?

Orders custom limo. Doesn’t check box for TT V8 or W12.

All year round really. The sun isn’t a factor in the cabin. My wife is super-picky about that stuff and even she’s commented about not noticing it.

We take our Model S to visit our inlaws in Phoenix regularly. No roasting, even in the middle of the day when it’s 110 degrees. Whatever Tesla uses on the Panoramic roof is magic. We don’t even use a shade for it because you don’t need it.

Disagree completely. Total car need here. My last car was a modified BMW 535 that made obnoxious power and the car before that was a 6 speed Manual 550i with a V10 M5 preceding that. I’ve had a lot of fun and engaging cars.

Not complicated but most of your driving is with one pedal. So yes, the moment you get in a regular car and let off the gas you are for a brief moment wondering why the car is not slowing down.

I know I’m inviting criticism but I kind of agree with him strictly from the daily driver perspective.

It’s not the same type of car though. As the owner of a Model S, I never cross-shopped the ELR. It’s all electric range is horrible, it has almost no utility and it’s basically a gussied up Volt. I’d sooner cross shop the Volt than the ELR and I did though I didn’t ever seriously consider one.

I get it but even if UPS came out and said one their employees took it and sold it at Race Wars it doesn’t matter. Insurance covers the unexpected. He didn’t get enough insurance to cover that. It was a gamble he took and he lost. The buyer has a seemingly unlimited amount of patience for a problem that should have…

Whoops, I might mixing up the names here. We agree. It’s 90% the shop’s fault, 10% UPS’ fault.

The whole story should be about Bruce. This is 90% his fault and 10% UPS’.

This is really a non-story. Sellers need to understand that in the eyes of the law and the eyes of payment processors, insurance covers the SELLER, not the buyer. This was all entirely on the seller. Sure UPS completely botched it, misplaced the package, wasn’t able to find it and ultimately auctioned off however had…

Versus being a luxury car, I’d just consider a bare bones 528 to be a solidly built car I’d own for years. I own a 535D loaded to the hilt and often marvel at how solid a car it is and how it would be enjoyable to drive even if you stripped away all the toys.

The first generation of iDrive was horrible. It just was. It was clunky and slow it it tried to do too much. The E65 happened to get the worst iteration with it’s joystick that had menus not only up and down but slantways too. It got simpler in the E60 5 series but really didn’t see a substantial improvement until…

iDrive was genuinely horrible. Consider that the D3 Audi A8 was released in 2003 with MMI and MMI was a full two or three product generations better than iDrive. I owned a 2006 M5, 2006 550 and a 2010 535, all with different versions of iDrive and MMI system in my A8’s blew all but the 2010 iDrive system out of the…