People who put style over safety.

We really need some way to allow for sound inside the cabin without high volumes outside. Scientists, get on that.

One thing that IMO often gets overlooked when talking about NYC’s sound law and car noise outputs is that any vehicle’s noises are always going to be perceptibly louder in a concrete canyon of a city than a wide, open rural or suburban area.

The only way for him to avoid the fines in the future, his suit states, would be to stop driving the two-seater supercar in Manhattan

There are things like auto seat heating/cooling that come on when the car thinks you need them, not because someone wants that, but because the OEM buried those one-tap button so deep in a touch menu that they can spin poor design as a “feature”

Or perhaps you’re sick to the back teeth of aggressive lane-keeping tech that fights you when you attempt to merge onto the highway

No, I understand that applies to the ICE car, but they knew there was to be an electric one. Why it makes such poor use of the volume just seems like laziness.

I can confirm that the worst part about driving in New York is New Jersey.

I’m sure the Charger and the Ioniq 5 N are wonderful cars, but pumping fake engine noise over a speaker was dumb when they did it in cars with engines and it’s even dumber in cars with electric motors. It’s inauthentic, fake, a trick.

#1 - Price: limiting the tax credit to just US brands effectively killed any enthusiasm for buying an EV anytime soon. There isn’t a EV made in the US and still qualifies for the credit that interests me.

With the advent of the electric vehicle, though, there’s no big engine taking up a ton of space, so it’s common for EVs to have both a regular trunk, as well as a frunk.

And no, I don’t want to hear about how you’re constantly changing your car’s temperature. Put your AC unit on Auto and leave it alone.

Audi also seems like a weird target - those who know enough about cars to care about such a comparison know that Audi borrows a lot from its parent VW, and they’ve long been seen as the distant 3rd place and the cheapest of the big German luxury brand.

Especially if Mazda’s made this push upmarket by switching their…

I really, really liked these, but it was so hard to find out whether they came with Android Auto or not. Apparently some of them got it in 2017, but AFAIK just because it had MIB2 didn’t mean it had the right USB port installed. The native Audi system was good for 2015 when these came out, but not super great otherwis…

The most amazing thing about driving an eGolf is that, other than the quiet, it felt exactly like driving any other Golf. It was super well dialed in.

I’ve owned both a NA 160HP and SC 210HP Mazda Millenia and each had their merits. While the NA was by no means slow, the whine of a supercharger coming from a fairly anonymous sedan definitely turned heads, and it made highway merging and passing a breeze.

Thiiis. I don’t care what’s under the hood when - other than the sound it makes, I’ll grant you - the car wouldn’t make me turn my head as it passed by. There’s nothing here to convince me they’ve broken free of the “grandpa’s car” association - it’s just so generic, you’d almost be forgiven for mistaking it for the…

Miata is always the answer. You don’t even need to make it a face-melting rocketship - give it the little 35 kWh battery and 140 HP motor from the MX-30 and it’ll be solid.

He’s said that anyone who wants to buy an electric vehicle should be able to but the government should not shape the car market.

Here in America, there’s a side-impact test that cars must pass that simulates being t-boned by an SUV.