1. I agree it’s part of the story, but the story isn’t off to a good start.
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I agree, advertised numbers aren’t the be-all and end-all. Case in point, the (claimed) more powerful and lighter RDX is actually slower than the (claimed) less powerful and heavier Q5, X3 x30i, and GLC300. However, it’s not exactly a good sign and it’s a bit of a bummer if the number is accurate.
Based on stock dynos, the M340i is really pumping out well over 400hp at the crank. The commonly accepted explanation is that the marketing department had to underrate the car in order to create more distance between itself and the M3, which was rated at 425hp. It’s quarter mile time is only 0.1 seconds off from the…
That’s true for the advertised numbers, but the S4 is heavily underrated. It’s coming in at close to 349 at the wheels, not crank. Here’s hoping the Type-S is similarly underrated and closer to 355 at the wheels. I’m not holding my breath, though, as Honda/Acura generally doesn’t underrate like the Germans do.
Writers are still wiping the tears off the keyboards. 355 is just sad.
Somewhere out there, Ryan Felton is crying into his cup of organic free-trade artisan pour-over.
Yeah, I couldn’t get any dealers to budge from stickers, but there was so much in the way of manufacturer incentives that it made up for it by a country mile.
The way I looked at it, if you load up a regular V60 T5 FWD R-Design with all the options that come standard on the T8 Polestar Engineered (it’s based on a fully loaded T8 R-Design), after factoring in the federal tax credit and local utilities rebate, it comes out to only $6-7K more, and for that extra coin you get:…
At the risk of adding even more urgency, there’s been no commitment on whether the Polestar Engineered model will be available for the upcoming 2021 model year ;).
Interestingly enough, two of the other cars I was considering was the JLU Rubi and Gladiator Rubi.
The Polestar Optimization helps quite a bit with the transmission tuning, although it’s definitely still slow and sluggish compared to a ZF8. However, on the bright side it’s especially smooth, which shouldn’t be a surprise as this is the same unit that Lexus uses. It’s hard to say how much the tune impacts the…
Hah, I actually would have rather had this car in Bursting Blue, but alas the only offer four “colors”, all of which are achromatic.
Given that these cars are essentially special order only, I wasn’t able to find any dealerships that would budge from sticker, so the only discounts are the manufacturer incentives. Fortunately, I was able to make off like a bandit and qualified for every single incentive (factory cash, loyalty bonus, healthcare…
Good eye! Right city, wrong side of the hill.
Well, last week I did my job to make sure Volvo stays solvent and continues to make wagons.
What I discovered is after incentives (and the tax credit), the T8 Polestar model is only about $6K more than a comparably equipped T5 FWD model (even after you apply those incentives to the T5). $44K before TLD vs $50K before TLD (minus the $5419 EV tax credit).
Can you explain the joke? I’m afraid I don’t get it.
That’s not a Buick
Probably, but I can’t imagine that Acura would have decided to re-engineer all that too when they had a perfectly good platform to already build on top of, especially given that historically Acura has been under-resourced and was gutted pretty hard by the previous regime at Honda.