That was a relatively low production model and has already started to shoot up in value.

Why are all their selfies taken from the driver’s seat?  This is an odd phenomenon but so true.

Who told all those white people to wear their late ninteties Revo cool guy wrap-around sunglasses?

It’s also important to ensure the brand will continue supporting old products and making parts for old cars. I love that BMW has committed to making parts for at least 50 years after production ceases. It makes the concept of keeping and maintaining one for a long time much more palatable.  It also helps with value…

Germany certainly does a good job at your first two sentences but likely won’t acknowledge the last one.

The average American drives around 14,000 miles per year for reference.  Most people lease for 10K or 12K miles per year.

“I’m thinking of a vehicle that’s a rare, high performance version of a more common car. That way, in the future, those more common versions can be cannibalized to keep the rare version going.

Wake me up when I can get one at $750 per month and $0 down ...

I would be curious how manufacturers like BMW that have over a decade of experience utilizing renewable energy and utilizing production waste for new car production (ie the i3 seats were made from from post manufacturing waste and the iX uses over 120 lbs of recycled plastics for interior and body components) stack up…

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Yeah man - that was a good one!  I love their weird straight-five engines.  The one in the URS4 made 230 hp and 260 ft-lbs - pretty impressive from an early nineties inline turbo engine!

I’m glad I’m not the only one scratching their heads at Audi’s naming changes and a general lack of brand awareness. Let’s take the A/S/RS4 for example, which has a long history of being a quirky, understated, all-weather alternative to the other German manufacturers. I remember in the late nineties when all the…

If you recall, the presidential limo (AKA the Beast) is a Cadillac limo body wrapped around a GM heavy duty truck chassis. When you see it in photos by itself but in reality it is 6' tall and has as much ground clearance as an SUV.

My point is that it looks significantly less elegant than its predecessors and looking back, it can now easily be mistaken for a Chrysler. The front end was huge and the odd mix of 1970's projector headlamps with round fog/driving lights and a huge grille. And proportionally, it looked more like a car body tacked onto…

The front end has not aged well largely in part to the 300. When I look at the front quarter view, all I see is Chrysler 300.  Imagine spending 6-figures on a luxury car only to have it look like a $10K used car.

The inception costs were taxes, tags, and fees but no down payment.  That’s what happens when there are cars with low demand and fairly high inventory.  I also think Acura needs the cars on the road to spread awareness and also to collect data for future products.  Let’s not forget some of these great deals on EV…

I don’t have an issue with the location of the charge port but the limitation for Tesla superchargers seems to be the cable length. I have only used rapid charging once from Electrify America and that and all the various Level 2 chargers I use (including the one in my garage) have long enough cables that they can…

The right answer is go sign a 27 month lease on a ZDX or Polestar 3. The former will cost you $6K for two years of use and the latter $8,500 for two years of use. They aren’t the sportiest options out there but they should be fine enough and have plenty of tech to make them happy.

I think of all the attainable (non luxury and super) performance cars that have appreciated over the past decade and they were all sports cars and sedans from my youth. It makes sense that the kids of the 80's and early 90's who saw cool people driving Supras, RX-7s, NSXs, E30 and E36 3-ers, etc. finally had enough…

If there was a way to convert the poop directly to usable energy on board, I should be able to take a zero-emissions road trip the morning after I go to a hot pot restaurant and order the sichuan broth.