Good to know.  I am pretty ignorant to the hierarchy of Chinese cars.  All I know is I want a Great Wall Coolbear solely because of the name.

Yeah, who the hell is paying $85K for a Dodge that is neither a full-size, fully loaded pickup or a Viper? The only American car that can command a price like that is the Corvette which has spent decades of being a high-price halo car unlike Pony cars, which spent decades of being a reasonably priced family cars with p…

Bland, generic looking crossover EV looks blander and more generic than ever.  Big surprise here.

I’ll give a BYD a shot the next time I am in Central or South America. I typically rent through Sixt and they tend to have Chinese cars in Central and SA but mostly Mercs and Bimmers in Europe.

But how does it all come together and does it come together in a way that will suit the NA car market which has significantly different demands from their domestic market. From my research and a week spent in a Geely Akzarra CUV rental, Chinese drivers spend significantly more time in their cars not driving, and using…

My first car was a 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix SE with the 3800 engine but I shared that with my dad as his bad weather car (his daily was a Miata). I went to university in a city and didn’t need a car for awhile and drove my parents’ cars when I went home to visit. In 2005, I finally bought my first car which was a brand…

And most of them will depreciate.  Its not a sports car but still a performance car - the STi RA originally sold for $50K but now can be had for south of $30K and they only made 500 for the USA market.

My dad had several Miatas back in the day and he clocked in at 6'-2" and 250 lbs.  He fit ok but it was comical seeing him and my 6'-5" tall brother riding around.  There was no way my brother could find a comfortable driving position and even in the passenger seat, his knees were nearly under his chin and the top had…

The Audi was bad, especially for a modern product with some Google features. But nothing tops the Merc MBUX from my wife’s old C Class for crappiness. When we used to drive it to NYC for weekend trips, the nav would take us to a graveyard in Staten Island instead of downtown NYC.

I’ll check it out.  I haven’t read much about the Ioniq 5 N other than that it is a huge surprise performance car but maybe it’s time I try one out for myself.  Can it handle the stress and heat from repeated hot laps?

Oh hey there, sexy headlights. I didn’t know you were in there. Excuse me for a second while I go clean up in the bathroom.

I talk to my car even when it’s not listening. I have my phone set up as a smart key so the car unlocks and the lights flicker on every time I walk by. If I’m not planning on using the car, I tell it “not now” and when the insane acceleration is unleashed to get me out of a sticky situation, I always tell it “good…

The only ones I have confidence in at the track are Porsches since the Taycan was developed for weekend track use. I will admit I have very little experience with and information about the Rimac other than Richard Hammond almost died in one a few years ago. Every time I read about a Tesla on the track, the only ones…

The Rimac and the Turbo GT are the only two I would mess with.  The lucid is probably fine but any of the Teslas will go into limp mode after a few hard laps.

My iX is the first car with voice control that actually works well.  My wife had a 2013 C250 coupe and the voice control was terrible and completely unusable.  The voice control in my 2014 X5 is ok and somehow much better than the terrible system in the 2021 A7 that I got rid of to get the iX.

The stonecutters have failed Steve and they have failed us all by not perpetuating his stardom.

Sure, going fast in a straight line is fun for a bit but there are only three of these cars I would actually want to drive spiritedly and/or on the track. Guess which ones...

I love hearing feedback from other great models with the N57 under the hood! My X5 has a 22 gallon fuel tank capacity so I love filling it up on road trips and seeing 700+ miles of range!

This looks like they took the “modern” interior option from a high-end RV and applied it to a tract home.  And by “modern,” I mean the tacky shit they were installing in upper-middle class suburbs 25 years ago.

When I was in grade school, the Dodge Motor Coach near my dad’s barbershop had one sitting next to a brand new Diablo. My dad took me there one time after a haircut and the dealer gave me posters of both cars which then remained on my walls through college.