That’s not a very good argument, and you know it - Tesla has the charger network, the dealer-less purchase and service experience, the brand cachet, and is still supply-constrained: they have demand. Tesla is doing outstanding for a company breaking into a market that even other automakers struggle to break into…

whoosh

Wait, you’re telling me bombs don’t instantly and painlessly vaporize all their victims? I AM SHOCKED, SIR, SHOCKED. I THOUGHT WE LIVED IN A CIVIL SOCIETY.

I’d say I’d send you the HTC Re still sitting in the packaging on my desk but that might actually make it worse.

Doug, you do some really entertaining YouTube videos - they’ve come a long way in quality in the last year. This one may have been my favorite yet. A+

The SLK250 comes with a manual in the US, but the 350 and 55 AMG were never offered with them here, sadly - they both get a 7-speed auto only. I bet if the 55AMG had a manual, it’d get a lot more love from the enthusiast community.

Yeah, pretty sure this is the autopilot system doing what it should do - alerting you to the fact that you’re drifting out of the lane. An audio cue isn’t going to work if you have the radio on - jerking you a bit back in the right direction would almost certainly jolt anybody awake and get their eyes back on the…

As someone who works in and interacts with people in the tech sector...

ITT: a bunch of people who went to really shitty mechanics instead of taking the very little amount of time and effort necessary to do their research. I cannot for the life of me understand someone who would willingly take their car to a shop they have never heard anything about previously. The dealer stories are kind…

I think deep-down Lexus wants to be an Audi RS rival more than it does BMW-M or Mercedes-AMG, because the RS6 and RS4 have always been a bit down on real-world performance compared to, say, the E63 / M5 and C63 / M3. Audi has never made much of a stink about being faster than its rivals - but better-looking, more…

That looks like some fiberglass on top of a rolling chassis... which is probably a donor from an old junkyard Corvette or something. This is the ballsiest (stupidest?) concept car scam I think I’ve ever seen.

Fair point!

I prefer Long Beach, but yes, LA’s regionals are much better for domestic hops. That said, you can’t avoid LAX most of the time if you’re looking for the cheapest fare. I don’t like LAX, but once you’ve gotten used to the beast, it really isn’t much worse than any other major international airport in the US. Unless…

Can confirm that CDG may be the world’s most tragically mismanaged airport and is full of people who do not speak an iota of English. Every time I have stopped there, even taxiing has taken 30-40 minutes longer than anywhere else, and that includes Beijing Capital International.

They can “work on” all they want, the chance this will end up on an appreciable number of cars is basically nonexistent. Anything is possible, but teaming up with HTC for a car infotainment system would be like teaming up with BlackBerry for a next-generation camera software platform. Not only is it the wrong company…

Like all of these posts, I think to myself, what is the maintenance I would want done versus what needs to be done? And I think that's really the issue here. You can absolutely find $12,000 a year of things you think need to be fixed on these cars, it would not be difficult, especially paying dealer labor prices and…

but also can someone seriously add me to oppo?

DEAR SO CALLED “JELOPNIC,”

I find the exterior of this car lamentable.

“The interior smelled like a handmade leather shoe.”