However, Dark Fate was kind of a last-chance effort. You not only had Schwarzenegger back yet again, franchise creator James Cameron produced and Linda Hamilton returned to co-star for the first time since Terminator 2: Judgment Day. That was the shot. But it failed, in large part because fans had been burned so…

It starts before getting on the plane: people who still have to be told to take off their shoes, remove their iPads/laptops, or take off jackets or sweaters, as though we haven’t been doing all that for almost 20 years now.

It’s the same with the A5 Sportback - it’s just a worse A4, only winning points for having the hatchback.

IMHO a Model 3 is too common, too generic looking, too big, has a silly no-instrument cluster/mega central screen, and has an interior that looks closer to the $6000 Citroen Ami quadricycle than a $40,000 competitor like an Audi A4.

Also, one of the reasons CA is leading on EVs and climate action is because of the unique geography that gives them the EPA waiver to run CARB. With that in mind, the areas closest to the ocean (and with fresh, sea breeze air that pushes pollution away) are entirely rich areas, while inland tends to be poorer, so the…

Google promises that biometric data “is never shared with Google or any other third party - the screen lock only unlocks the passkey locally.”

Because in doing nothing exceptionally great, it doesn’t make sacrifices that detract from it doing everything really well.

What about things that are less tangible, like styling? Again, the Audi crushes it by being in the middle of the continuum. The A4 is already a handsome car.

Even more annoyingly, the previous generations of most Audis had the best button in the world: one that mad the screen fold up and go away.

Two very strange ones... my brain alerts every time I see either of these, and I couldn’t tell you why. They’re solidly fine cars, but I always pick them out of the crowds.

“Van blocking a bus stop? That’s a camera ticket. Truck blocking a bike lane? That’s a camera ticket. Crosswalk? Intersection? Ticket. Ticket.”

Neither article mentions which streets they were ticketed on, but looking at the church on Google Maps, it seems the only street nearby with any parking restrictions is Hall Street, with a blanket No Parking zone the entire length of the church building.

I hope I’m not the only one little worried about a LiOn battery device sitting in constant sunlight all day...

you might as well have literally any other Challenger from the past 15 years, they all look the same.

100%. What’s the point of having the dashboards curve and be made of nice materials if they’re going to just be hidden behind an upright, rectangular screen? At least Mercedes is trying to get the screens to contour to more familiar dash shapes

Cars with more grille than they need (e.g. Ford Explorer) or cars (especially EVs) with grilles that they don’t need all because automakers are afraid people won’t like the aesthetic. (Chevy Bolt, all the BMWs, the duck face of the Model 3/Y)

Wait these come from the factory like that? I thought it was just people with poor taste and too much time and money

I’m 6'5" and just sat in the new Prius and have bad news - Toyota has this new combined instrument cluster/steering wheel that, due to how it’s designed to not block the cluster, has severely limited vertical range of motion. Even at its highest setting, it was uncomfortably close to my legs, which essentially means…

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But some buyers may be turned off by their models as phone projection is a big part of some people’s buying decisions