It also feels like they’re the last two remaining “car people” here. It feels like there’s been a rotating door of writers, some of whom don’t even have cars and are more interested in injecting their activist views into everything that I’ve just been ignoring articles from names I don’t recognize.

Nobody remembers Polestar :(

Once you factor in the federal, state, and local tax credits, plus various incentives, it’s much less. The effective sale price for me ended up being $49.7K ($68.9K MSRP - 5% Penfed discount - $1K Penfed discount - $2K Costco discount - $2K factory cash - $2K loyalty rebate - $2K healthcare rebate - $5419 federal tax…

I had the same requirements in the same city, and ended up buying a Volvo V60 T8 PE. Checks every single box.

MDX: Multi-Dimensional luXury. WTF does that even mean?

It’s easier to just carry the kid. It is. Better for you too.

3 rows is a lot more convenient when you’re also driving around your parents. 5 seats doesn’t really cut it when you have that many people, and even if you have just 1 kid, fitting 2 adults + a car seat in the third row is very tight and uncomfortable. Car seats are quite wide these days.

Wait, how old are you? Back when the Integra was new, most of the ones I saw were the sedans, not the coupes.

Integras have always looked swoopy and wedge shaped. Poised, ready to attack. Low slung front end, high rear. I have no idea what the hell they were thinking when they decided to name this the next Integra.

This happened in Oakland, and I will say that anecdotally it appears stopping at red lights has become more of a suggestion rather than law.

This article is a subtle way of telling readers that G/O Media doesn’t provide vision coverage for their employees, right?

I test drove both the P*2 and the XC40 P8 and I actually liked the Volvo more. Not only was it a little cheaper, but I felt the interior to be better (the P*2 interior without the leather package just felt cheap), and it’s more practical (higher ground clearance, more rear legroom, more cargo space, smaller footprint…

If it makes you feel any better, even the XC40 Recharge lost Bursting Blue for 2022. Sads.

Unfortunately the chassis code is still Z34, so that won’t be of much help.

I don’t know how much of a factor this is, but since Polestar USA counts as a totally separate brand, it doesn’t have to share its 200K pool of federal tax credits with Volvo.

I had the same impression about the car. Its XC40 Recharge siblingmate had a higher quality interior. That car felt like a proper (albeit entry-level) Volvo, whereas the P*2 did not. The vegan interior materials certainly did not evoke a sense of premium, let alone luxury. I have no idea why they decided to use so…

The GTI isn’t quite in the premium/luxury segment. There’s plenty of other MT cars in the mainstream segment (Civic Si, GTI, Veloster N, etc.)

A 6MT would cure almost all ills people could have with the car strictly because there’s literally nobody else in the segment that offers a manual. I’ve been planning to grab an IS500 next year, but an ITR with the CTRs powertrain (hell even an ITS with the 2.0T from the RDX/TLX paired with the 6MT) will have me…

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. It could very well still wind up bloated, underpowered, and underwhelming. Acura hasn’t done enough to get the benefit of the doubt yet.

1.5T would be more realistic since they have no 1.6T :p