Funny, I made that very point and posted comparison photos of the front of the M3 vs. the front of the Alpina B3...and for some reason it’s disappeared from here, not even visible in the greys? All my comments on Alpina disappeared.

Your logic is still not working. ICE drivers don’t pay your taxes. You pay your taxes. If we all buy EVs those costs are on us. If we don’t, we save those costs.

Why is Lalita suggesting ancient MX-5s when the budget is up to $35K?

Yes, exactly, so why buy an EV?

Do you understand how little the difference between a prius and say an MX-5's fuel bills are? We’re talking about a $35K car with all the other costs of upkeep. A few hundred bucks is nothing.

Or take a taxi / rent a car on those few days of the year. Hell, take limo service. Better than paying $30K on a car you don’t like just for a few snow days.

Not being able to drive a RWD car is incorrect. Just don’t switch off the ESP and you’re fine.

Hi.

Well, who do you think is going to pay for:

Just look at this, the end of an era:

I’m sorry, but then you don’t know what Alpina is or does.

M340i is not the same thing at all what the B3 is though.

You don’t rate their suspension and chassis expertise? Do you know all the things that Alpina really does?

I don’t understand how you can claim that EVs would be cheap...compared to ICE vehicles? Then on top of that there’s the massive costs you’re going to be paying in taxes for EVs.

Do you think that the price of electricity won’t go up? The price of EVs won’t go up?

See my other text, but in short: the number of leases is misleading. Before Biden’s presidency oil prices were incredibly low, even hit negative, so there was little interest in new investments. Under Biden his extremist actions and clear message that he is going to kill the oil industry hiked up the prices…

“Republican lawmakers are demanding that the U.S. open more drilling fields to combat the rise in gas prices, but that won’t really do any good, CNN reports. Drilling permits have been issued at the same brisk pace under President Biden as under Trump, but we can’t drill our way out of the global economy.”

Thank you for confirming to the moderators that you were specifically not even trying to engage in civilized debate and only in behavior which is against the site’s rules.

Who? Which authorities do you have to pull to get them to succeed?

Which “ones that have been in real use so far”? I wasn’t aware that any existed. And I know people who have developed AI for them.