Audi is also touting a virtual "butler" feature that identifies the driver based on their phone, and then adjusts everything from the seat to the temperature to the music and route preferences to suit.

It's still a little early to release specific pricing detail, but obviously it will fit in above the XTS and CTS in pricing. It's complicated to price new- technology lightweight cars- it costs a lot of money to reduce weight, but it enables engineers to extract great performance from smaller engines, because the…

This also assumes other debts aren't a factor. I am pulling just shy of $60k a year, no kids, no mortgage, but a $500-600/mo car payment is way out of line of what I can afford due to student loans. If I didn't have that payment, then sure, I could spend that much on a car.

Wording has subtle differences in meaning, so I want to clarify that our laws do not expressly ban laser headlights. Rather, they're old (circa late 1960s) laws that never imagined certain technologies and largely haven't been amended as technology improves. Therefore, the technologies are implicitly banned by not…

Other variants of the ad campaign include large sections of the speech.

It's from a Teddy Roosevelt speech.

Which hints at probably one reason why enforcement is so lax. Say for instance a coal roller is traveling on a Pennsylvania interstate: Only a few counties in PA have a strict emissions inspection, the rest get a visual inspection that doesn't really matter; this stratification is written into state law and enforced…

It is illegal:

http://truckyeah.jalopnik.com/the-epa-just-s…

The trouble is lack of enforcement, both from cops that write tickets for this to states without emissions inspections. Even then the inspections wouldn't catch them, because it's not unheard of for people to mod to stock nonconforming items before going to…

You're racing to the bottom. You'd do it for a pittance that wouldn't let you live in LA, until someone else is willing to do it for less and now you're out of a job.

Grandpa's loading the truck wrong if the firewood is ending up on the WiFi antenna instead of the bed.

It would if it were applied immediately, which (even if we could get a global standard going) wouldn't happen. Instead what would happen is that emerging markets would use homebrewed regulations that permit cars that don't meet the global standard until such a time as they're ready for it. For a thought exercise, take…

Not really. Ukraine was in an odd place due to a decade of upheavals, is not an EU member, and is not a NATO member. Plus it hosted the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. It's less Putin actively working to reestablish the USSR and more Putin seeing an opportunity to gain more influence in a weak country no one…

"Which is the last intervention that worked?"

I'm having a hard time thinking of anything more recent than the Korean War, and even that only managed to restore the antebellum boundaries for the most part and hurt South Korea badly.

I feel like there's a way to write the law that pacifies everyone, I just haven't found it yet. Maybe make it so that the age cutoff is reduced to three years*, only private individuals can import**, and there's a limit on one import per year***?

* I wanted to suggest one year, but three makes more sense for…

...I'd take the Pug. Bit of a looker.

I'm taking a wild stab that he means Tesla.

The price isn't actually outrageous. Audi charges similar ($42.4k starting) for the allroad. Are they higher than comparable "crossovers"? Yep. They still find a niche buyer, and being honest for a second, the X1 is as much a "crossover" as a 500L Trekking. It's barely taller than a Ford Focus (made obvious when my…

The answer for both questions is the same: US federalization rules.

1] Not enough people would buy a manual and you know it.
2] BMW wasn't going to let Audi run unchallenged with the allroad.

Sales are regional due to regional differences. Owing to CARB compliance laws, California is saturated with electric car chargers AND grants all-electrics white HOV stickers, on top of state tax credits adding to the federal one. Same can't be said for Virginia, so it's natural that more are bought in CA than VA.