It took them four years to figure out flush handles because the engineers kept misunderstanding and putting these on the cars.

Exactly. Anyone who has ever used a hose before knows that 99% of the effort involves getting it out and putting it away.

Help me if I’m missing something: what’s the point of autonomous driving if the person in the vehicle has to be paying attention the whole time? I’m not asking for door-to-door autonomy, but it would be great if I could get on the highway and have the car alert me when we’re getting close to our exit.

And zero minutes of acceptance testing for the stupid name “Taycan.”

No, but we’re expecting that expecting the driver to do so will make the driver liable instead of the manufacturer when it self-drives into someone.

Only if their copilot had a dick and is related in some way.

Will the Saudis allow women to compete?

Thanks for writing up the highlights and not just posting the videos. Clicking on a post and getting no information other than “watch this video” is tiresome.

Not in my opinion, it’s one of the very few cars I actually find great looking. I’m old and hate the design of most “modern” cars. Squished eggs with angry bug front ends with squinty headlight eyes. No thanks.

Nice perspective. This isn’t a car to rationalize or pick apart. It’s what my gentle father used to call a “fuck-you car”. The people who buy fuck-you cars don’t need to explain shit to anyone, and never will do so. He owned a fine series of FU cars over his lifetime including a Javelin, a mid-60s 300M, a Turbo Coupe,…

I own a 2017 Hellcat Challenger. Personally I was totally enamored with the car since I first read about it pre-production. Finally last year I found one for sale with low miles at local dealer and what was once an $80K window sticker was now $51K out the door for me.

Please know I am not over-stating anything when I…

Hey Mademoiselle, parlez vous a humma humma?

I have witnessed this also. and there’s an answer for why we don’t do the same here. Cup holders, air conditioning, automatic transmissions, consoles bigger than a Hong Kong apartment, and seating for 6. We don’t have work trucks in this country; we have active lifestyle and occupational accessories.

It’s the “S” speed rating for tires.

I can almost guarantee this isn’t about saving lives, it’s about being able to install cheaper tires.

112 MPH = 180 KPH = Maximum speed for S-speed rated tires.

They want docile workers. Good for commerce.

Not if he was Russian. 

While I’m always at least mildly interested in any new supercar on the block, I feel like they’re really missing the mark here.  Hispano-Suiza was a luxury car company that made stuff that held up to Rolls Royce standards.  Why in the world are they looking at the supercar market?  They should be going after Bentley…

You’re asking too much of humans here. 

And this is the problem with semi-autonomous vehicles, it encourages lazy and dangerous driving. People were already morons before they thought their car would do all this shit for them, now we’re essentially just challenging them to reach peak moron.