Ha! Exactly right. My wife’s job is to optimize her company’s website for usability on “lesser” machines that senior citizens are likely to have, because developers always want to push the limits of what can be done versus what should be done. I spend 80% of my Jalop reading on mobile devices, and it takes literally…

Exactly to your point, the Stinger in 3 years will be a depreciated way more than its competitors. Take a look at the 2015 Kia K900 MSRP of $49,000. Today, it’s $25,000 on Carmax. Similarly priced 2015 BMW 335xi when new is currently $30,000. So especially if people believe the Stinger to be a great car for $45,000,…

$45,000 gets you way more than a “lightly used low end BMW”. Quick look on Carmax reveals that you can buy the following (all under 20,000 miles) for less than $45,000:

But not enough people will overcome their vanity to pull the trigger on the Stinger for $45,000 - that’s quite a statement of non-vanity. It’s one thing to buy no-name underwear but when people commit to the third largest purchase of their lives (behind a home and an education), it’s a $45,000 “event” of…

Worse still, they just “briefly” read some other site for unverified news and post it as their own, hoping for clicks because they are not journalists but “content specialists”.

5th Gear: So it took how many decades for common sense to prevail and the Detroit auto-show to move to summer? That sort of arrogant idiocy deserves what it gets.

Neutral: NO, mainstream consumers do not want to “recharge for an hour somewhere”. People get road rage fighting for parking spots that save them from a 5 minute walk and you think these same people are willing to wait an hour? Americans are an impatient lot with things to do, places to go, and waiting any more than…

Neutral: you forget WAGONS. American car companies don’t make enough wagons for Europe. Instead, we make crossovers even though they prefer wagons.

I guarantee, when your back begins to creak and your hips ache, you’ll appreciate the ease of entry and exit from the higher seating position of a cross-over or SUV.

Props to your team for that pretty impressive OTA update that fixed the ABS algorithm and braking distance on Consumer Report’s Model 3. You get props where it’s earned, and THAT was pretty freakin’ awesome.

Obviously, Tesla is figuring out the “fundamentals” of manufacturing by trial and error, BUT, not even Ford has figured out how to do instantaneous OTA updates for their drive by wire electronics the way Tesla did to change the ABS algorithm and shorten its braking distance. Ford (and everybody else) literally waits…

Did you know the Miata has the LOWEST insurance rates of most cars? Literally, among the cheapest cars to insure. Their drivers have great driving records, rarely get into accidents, and apparently nobody wants to steal the damn things.

While a loaded Civic Si is less than $30,000 and way more reliable, with great resale value. No it’s not AWD, but it’s under $30,000, come on!

2nd and 3rd Gear: I love the irony and karma because all the people hurt most in the auto industry are the very same blue collar workers who voted for Trump because they embraced his promise to make “America Great Again,” but they failed to realize that he didn’t mean America would be great for them, just other people…

1st Gear: Oh come on, exaggerate much? Your skepticism is applicable to anything and everything put out by Chrysler or Fiat the last 20 years (or more). Gee, great car or concept, let’s see if it will stay running (insert joke here about anything sold by VW). Here’s an example of how you expect only perfection from…

No different than Cadillac has been a basket case? Wasn’t EVERY Detroit car manufacturer a basket case in the 80's and 90's when Japan just took over?What about GM needing government bailout, or “cash for clunkers” for the entire American auto industry to survive. Tesla is experiencing it’s own growing pains that all…

But as Erik intimated, the X4 is a cool car that’s fast like “an athletic, husky new kid on the block who just wants to be liked.” The X3 is the mature older brother that’s married with a kid on the way. The X4 is immature and covered in trendy logos.

Oh come now Erik, you and all Jalops know full well that buying a car is never about rationality, it’s about passion and individuality. If some people are willing to spend more on a sport “crossover” instead of a more practical sportwagon, then it’s no different than Jalops spending $12,000 on a 40 year old barely…

Wouldn’t your complaint also apply to everything else in life, like:

I agree with the complaint regarding photos; your intent is valid, but unfortunately it does not take into consideration the issues of lag and image generation on a browser. It freezes up my browser memory and if I try to read the article on my phone, it’s a nightmare and I just give up.