The Top Gear guys were wrong.

The solution is simple: Have a physical key.

How many Ladas are in your garage?

Eh. China + poor quality is an old idea that people can’t seem to shake. I visit Shenzhen and Southern China every few weeks for work and every time I go it’s more and more evolved.

and the EcoSport is being imported from India.

They don’t have to deal with the UAW over there.

The lack of a manual transmission didn’t keep me from leasing a ‘17 (the automatic is pretty good, for a slush box) but it will keep me from a ‘20 when I turn it back in. Great car, and it’s been a fabulous experience, but I really miss shifting my own gears.

If a Giulia could be had with a stick, there would already be one in my garage - I would even break my “no first year cars” rule for one. I’ve owned two Alfas already, and both were good experiences, I have no fear of a new one.

counter : all SUVs are stupid and only a fraction of the owners need their capacities. However, two door SUVs are even stupider because the whole point of SUVs is that they’re practical, I never look at my GC and think “you know what would be great? If it was harder for passengers to get in!”

Obviously you didn’t keep reading. Autopilot is not a perfect system, nor meant to be used without any human intervention. It’s incumbent upon the driver to pay attention to the road and to take over should the computer have trouble. The driver didn’t, Tesla is not to blame for his negligence and incompetence.

The IT crowd? It’s excellent (one of my repetitive go-tos on Netflix). Just don’t try to watch the couple episodes of the US version.

Is the show any good?

Knowing GM, if it’s a good idea, they won’t do it. Also it probably was a huge piece of shit, like all GM products.

Member clutches? I member

I wish my BRZ came in that color.

A free car is a free car, and in time it will earn it’s dings and lose it’s shiny newness. Honestly though, I think all the badge snobbery around MB’s and such is just silly. Nobody really cares what anybody else drives, unless they’re car people. Normal people are too busy worrying about what other people think of…

It’s not an upgrade to replace MacOS, which is based on a true Unix, that can trace its codebase back to AT&T Unix codebase, with some hobbyist-developed Unix wannabe.

Apple thinking. Minimalist aesthetic above all else, at the expense of actual simplicity and even basic functionality.

I wonder if there’s anything else that could be used to open a glove box? Like a mechanical linkage that may be operated manually? Have any other manufacturers done such a thing?

Are your feelings a bit hurt there mate?