I had a 2012 XC60 with the I6turbo that started to eat oil like crazy at around 50k miles so we traded it on an XC90 with the I4 turbo (not the complicated turbo+supercharger). Other than an initial service / recall that replaced all the spark plugs at <1000 miles, it has been completely reliable for ~6 yrs. 🤞

If someone threw an orange cone on your hood at a traffic light would you just keep driving like it wasn’t there, or would you pull over and take it off?

No. Please stop this bullshit copy-paste reply. I’ve read this at least 3x now in the comment threads.

I personally like the idea of a sporty EV coupe because just about every other EV sold is a CUV / bloated hatchback. I bet Dodge will even offer it in real colors.

Clarkson is 64? I’d have guessed 75.

I’m guessing that a car of this age and mileage that was outdoors enough to need both new paint and a dashboard cover (to hide cracks) will also not have original seats. Maybe they’re a reproduction of the rare half tweed seats, but they are definitely not original.

1. I’m not sure what you’re asking — vehicle manufacturers do tons of testing in cold/snow environments and collaborate with autonomous vehicle development companies. (The autonomous sensors and compute are not just strapped onto a vehicle like a roof rack, it’s a deep collaboration with the manufacturer.)

Realistically this is at LEAST $15K over a price where it would sell in some volume. This vehicle is going to sell a few copies to wealthy people who want a quirky non-luxury car. Here’s just a few alternatives to serve as a family vehicle in the $60-70K range

I think most of these autonomous vehicle groups have done astronomical amounts of simulated testing, some amount of closed course testing, and then tons of real world testing with safety drivers.

The pic doesn’t look like it copied. Here’s a link

Water condensation and ice are pretty well understood in the automotive environment. For example, Mercedes uses a heater on their ADAS cameras (and has for years) — see the heater wires in the pic below:

The car looks pretty good in the pictures, but it is absolutely not worth $6500...

I think that the major problem here is that a nearly -5000 lb, AWD, extremely-high-torque vehicle requires significant amounts of computer control to drive in a sporty manner. The engineers optimize this to go as fast as possible, and it ends up pretty boring because the computer is doing all the hard stuff.

No doubt you can engineer some paints that are ‘white’ all the way through the near infrared and beyond, and these will reflect a lot of the sun’s energy away from your vehicle, Spectralon, for example.

Her requirements: CUV, AWD, 90lb dog, and ‘leather’

Yeah, I *personally* would never ride a bike on roads in my state the way I did years ago when I was growing up. Dedicated bike paths are great, and some trails are good, too, but I find that about 50% of cyclists treat trail-walking pedestrians like FSD treats bikes.

Cell phone cameras 100% do NOT include a polarization filter. You can buy an add-on filter from Amazon, though.

I agree that Tesla’s system is not really capable given their relatively tiny computer and 1.3 Megapixel cameras. (Did they upgrade those to higher resolution yet??)

Unfortunately a full AI datacenter cannot come close to replicating the human brain, so that little AI processor in the Tesla stands 0 chance of replicating the abilities of the human vision perception system.

So you’re  asking for a base model Camaro with an MT and a corvette badge?