Is this a poster for Italian Job III?

This.

This. Coupled with the pedestrian hood crush standards and you get vehicles with the outward visibility of a WWII pillbox.

This.

There also doesn’t seem to be any check and balance for the pedestrian crash standards. The consequence of the raised hoods and overall worse visibility incurred to comply with the rollover standards is deeply concerning.

Yup. It’s funny how frequently CAFE gets attacked, yet the details of CAFE is what’s created so many brodozers and “crossovers.”

Rollover standards leading to thicker A and B pillars that don’t include some check for blind spots. Outward visibility in general, actually.

True. Very true.

This. Thank you.

1. Buy an off-lease one of these in years.

Right there with you. 

Uh, the works council (Betriebsrat) aren’t quite the same as what we in the U.S. think of unions. Any German company with five or more employees can have one and membership must be a mix. Senior management is excluded.

It’s not what you want to drive. That comes later.

The world needs more perspective like this. Thank you.

A few golden rules of EV charging:

I would love a PHEV Trailhawk version of this.

3k units is a tough business case for cars.

This. The main problem is the lack of customer choice.

It’s awful. Rear seats are a joke, as is the trunk, and whoever designed the interior should be on trial in the Hague along with whoever approved a body design giving so terrible rear visibility.

So true.