Repeat Prius owners wouldn’t continue to flock to a Prius if their maintenance was vastly greater than an equivalent pure-ICE vehicle. I think your concerns are a bit out of touch with the reality.

News flash: full electric will never be mainstream.

As for your other points, I would just quit will your ahead because your straw man still needs legs to stand on. It’s more of a pain in the ass to maintain a battery than any ICE.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is stuck between a rock and a hard place. It doesn’t appear to have the money—or, frankly, the interest—to surf the massive tidal wave of efficiency and electrification that’s overtaking the car industry.

1. Maserati has a much better interior.
2. JD Dependability Studies are largely hogwash.

Typical Jalopnik comment, is typical.

I bet this thing will have an interior that will make RR execs sweat. Pair it with an engine and transmission that is vastly more reliable and you have a recipe for a car that will be superior.

LIDAR and V2V are the only paths toward a “Level 5" autonomous vehicle, the cutesy experiment by Musk & Co. and relying more on the Machine Learning side rather than better data, is not the way the industry should be going.

I’m glad Google is stepping up to show everyone else how to do this tech properly.

That’s what the turbos + hardware + service costs. A buddy of mine went through this a few years ago on his 335i.

New turbo-mills are just around the corner for FCA and it is rumored that the 124 is slotted to get one of them.

$10k turbos that have to be replaced every 100k mi.?

Pontiac G8 GT

This is one of those “no shit, Sherlock” moments where I have zero sympathy.

Faraday Future is based out of Los Angeles not the Silicon Valley.

When is someone going to make an electric car that looks good and at least gets people excited? Lucid, FF, LeEco, etc. these idiots have no clue how to design anything properly.

I need to move to Italy, no Italian would put up with this bullshit.

This looks like a huge pile.

freaking amazing?

...and 100% of Tesla owners are idiots. So...

None, because they’re largely pieces of shit for fuccbois.

Who should take note? Marchionne saw this coming months/years ago and planned accordingly with the Cherokee, Renegade, and new Compass platform. Hyundai should be taking notes...lots of them.

What the Agnelli family did to that poor brand in the late 90s and early 00s is truly a crime.

This is stupid just like the cars.