that’s the beauty of COVID: no one looks twice at a trunk full of gloves, plastic bags, duct tape, bleach,etc.

You are more than welcome to find residence elsewhere!

Not so much a road trip tip, but Canada boarder crossing tip. They know you’re coming from Texas, so make sure to bring a firearm. If you don’t surrender one at the crossing they assume you’re hiding it, and it takes hours to search a car properly.

Or people who want a new car every 3 years (for whatever reason), and don’t want the hassle of selling or the unpredictability of what you’ll get for it. All the costs are known and negotiated up front. Basically leasing is transportation as a service/subscription instead of a product you own. If you have the means,…

Actually Finnish car magazine TM:s winter testing last year pretty much had the same results. They tested most of to common electric cars for a week in Finnish lapland (-15 to -30C). There wasn’t dramatic difference between the models, but Audi E-tron and Kia Niro had best ranges in the cold (they drove at the same…

So you’d suggest that I just pay the money up front, and hope I can sell the car for more than the difference when I hit 3 years or so? No, that’s stupid.

That is an invalid excuse. Basic fallacy of saying that “hey, other people can cheat too!”

My neighbor has two 2017 Lexus LX570s that he OWNs.

They’re like American dollars, only they try to kill you.

I mean, driving on the freeway for a couple hundred miles straight is a pretty realistic scenario. And important to know the realistic range.

Except they showed that the Audi did much better than their cars. A full 10-12% better. Now the information may be a pretty useless metric, but it is the results they found.

“but just like some nazi Repub thinktank issuing a crock paper claiming electing Biden means the downfall of America, no cred.”

The 30 extra miles of range is gained after the rear bumper cover falls off.

Audi isn’t getting invited to the next “independent” test, I’ll bet.

Why does reading a David Tracy article make me feel like I am enabling an addict who needs treatment?

David, thanks for these amazing rundowns with input from Torch, probably the single thing that keeps me coming back to this blog.

Hey, it isn’t just the kids that enjoy your work, Shawn! As a fan of art, cars, and sci-fi, your vehicles scratch a very specific itch for some of us! As soon as I saw this post, I was pretty sure I remembered those two cars...

Hey kids, get in my Star Wars “Free Candy” van. I appreciate the old school aesthetics but under the circumstances here, yeah no.

Hurr durr, hurr durr, hurr durr... Elon is a genius! Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!

Yes, instead of blank buttons we are going to have deactivated screens. Then they will figure out they can send ads to those screens. You may want to adjust the A/C but will need to wait 15 seconds for the ad to play through. Or subscribe to your car's All Access feature and get uninterrupted controls. Future looks…