“No subsidies...if the product is as great as its defenders always claim, it should be able to stand on its own merits”

I’ll disagree simply because they’ll never make it to the crusher- local taxi companies have discovered that Tesla 3s make awesome cabs and they run them into the ground- when they’re done with them there’s nothing left to crush.  Which is kinda awesome. 

But, like, why?

“the MX-30 weighs 3,655 pounds as it sits at the curb. But if it had an extra 800 pounds of battery onboard,”

Lots of people want to compare the MX-30 to other vehicles in its price range.

‘Do you actually need more than 100 miles of range?’

“Volvo produces three times as many vehicles as Tesla,”

Based on the numbers from Volvo in September it appears Tesla is outselling them. Volvo says 530,649 for 2021 year to date. Tesla with this update is over 600k year to date

Are you thinking of the Model Y third row? Because the Model X is actually decently sized. Definitely better than something like a CX-9.

As a certified extremely nearsighted person, I took off my glasses and rolled to the end of my office to see if being blind would really improve the looks of the buck-toothed grille. Instead of doing so, it actually smoothed it out into what appeared to be the impression of two buttcheeks in a soft sofa. This made it…

If you look under the front seats of many cars they have this air vent. The fact that it’s SO visible is either poor design or the front seat is really pushed forward. Meaning that in “normal” position there is very little rear seat leg room.

There isn’t a new car made by BMW that I would want to own.

No Torch, it’s truly and irredeemably ugly. There is no angle from which it’s not an absolute mess.

Jason, I’m really concerned about how much driving you did in this thing with your vision as impaired as it clearly is.

No, a wider pipe that is still clogged just holds more water when clogged. Widening roads barely changes the throughput when there’s massive chokepoints at the exits and ends. All you do is get more people stuck in traffic and sometimes even worsen it through unsafe or short merges

You know what really helped traffic…

Exactly. This isnt an electrical car issue, its a modern car issue.

Several recent BMW products require you to jack up the vehicle(F10 chassis for example), remove under paneling and turn a bolt on the side of the transmission to engage neutral override for towing. Even for ICE cars, its not always easy...

Where do you live that you can get anything in the world brought to you in the middle of the night through a huge traffic jam in less than 45 minutes?

I think your internal calibration device is broken. 185 inches is much smaller than 197 (6.5% shorter) [it’s also 4% narrower] , 3800 lbs is much less weight than 4300 lbs (13% less weight) and 27.5 mpg is much better than 23 (19.5% better mileage).

The difference between 197 inches and 185 is huge. They aren’t roughly the same size - they are in different classes.