What is this, logic and firsthand experience with the subject?  Get out of here!

It’s not about it costing extra money, it’s that it would compromise their score on crash test ratings. Crash test ratings are so important for vehicles sales these days that they have to go for the 5 star rating in every NHTSA category, and that means compromising the vehicle for anything outside those tests.

This article shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how crash safety requirements work. As a current crash safety engineer at a major OEM, please let me take a few moments to clear some things up.

As someone who works in the auto industry, this is terribly mis-informed. First of all, you absolutely can’t make the car perfectly safe for the entire range of human body types. Vehicles aren’t very safe for people over 6'2" either, but the article doesn’t mention that.

Yes.

What she said.

My upper-Midwest brain is very puzzled after reading this whole thing. I knew the whole living-in-campers thing was going on out there in the Golden State, but I had no idea it has gotten to this. People paying rent for a dilapidated fucking van in a fleet of other dilapidated fucking vans.

Jalopnik: Cars these days have too many screens and not enough buttons!

The UAW kind of sucks, but it is still a union, and therefore inherently good.

“but it is still a union, and therefore inherently good.”

The UAW kind of sucks, but it is still a union, and therefore inherently good. 

McMike should’ve Brawn’d the lawnmower.

So this whole thing sounds like BMW is opting to sit on their hands and half ass electric vehicles, just in case for some reason they don’t have to.

It feels like they got a Facebook invite to the electric future and responded “might be going”.

The Model S was first launched in 2012, and sales and production are now half of what they were at peak.
That combination of old model and diminished sales is generally what drives vehicle OEMs to redesign their models.

Elon Musk generally defines ‘soon’ as ‘several times further into the future than you might expect from my pronouncements’.
e.g. the $35k Tesla originally flagged as arriving in 2013/2014, and actually arriving in May 2019; or high levels of weekly Model 3 production happening by December 2017, and actually happening…

Corvette Z06, Camaro ZL-1, Mustang GT500, Mustang GT350(maybe?) are ones that immediately come to mind. Would they beat out a GT-R? I don’t really know but it wouldn’t be fair to compare the 200k GT-R to the <100k cars

Except Porsche doesn’t keep the same car on the road for 50 years. The styling changes are “conservative” sure, but the chassis is updated. Interiors are updated. Engines are updated. Transmissions are updated. New technology is added. And we’re not talking minor revisions here. The car is heavily updated with each…

Trying to recover the lost revenue from all the people who aren’t buying them already.

Probably on par with the RS3