“I like people going through the extra effort to swap weird and unusual motors.”

This is the problem with these takes though. YOU aren’t paying for that swap. YOU aren’t living with that swap. YOU aren’t having to deal with the integration hassles of that swap. Everyone wants someone else to foot the bill to put an…

Out of curiosity how many shares of tesla stock do you currently own?

I missed the part where it’s going to be an active lifestyle crossover with an available EV version.

Shouldn’t the SEC be investigating Telsa for unintended acceleration this quarter?

I remember that when I was younger, the tipping point for Audi was a smear job on TV from 60 Minutes, showing an Audi accelerating out of control, but they had actually purposely rigged up the car to accelerate that way by itself and never disclosed that on the show. Bunch of asswipes. By that point public opinion had…

Also, your car has a much tighter turning circle when reversing.

Not true in my experience of watching people try to park. Most drivers are incapable of reversing into a spot between two cars these days, even with cameras. It might take one or two tries.

Pulling through is fine, I do it from time to time, but for whatever reason, the one that gets me, is people [usually of a certain demo] who *always* have to park ass-in first. I just find that very annoying, especially in a busy lot, where you have a bunch of other cars waiting. It just feels like total posing. It’s…

When has Porsche ever built anything for the “mainstream?”

Not a single Taycan buyer will have fucks to give....

And this: “ Those stretches of highway went from some of the safest in the state to the sites of 14 fatal crashes and 589 injuries, a five year high, the Bridge reports.”

Sure, but then they don’t support that with any data in the piece to associate this rise in crashes with speed. Of course anecdotally you can say that because as they point out in the article it’s physics.

My first thought as well. I hate evidence free speculation like this, it reeks of politics. 

The problem wouldn’t be you being a skilled driver, it would be you interacting with those who aren’t. Honestly, the biggest problem on freeways would probably be lane discipline if such a license existed. All the “I’m doing 5 over the speed limit, he can go around me if he wants,” people and just plain oblivious…

Police did not identify speed as a primary factor in any of the 14 fatal crashes on 75 mph freeways in 2018

Yeah, that’s what I’ve been doing lately. Just Out-the-door price. I don’t care about all the rebates and discounts and taxes and shit. Give me a price out the door and that’s what I’ll agree to. They can slice and dice the numbers any way they want as long as the bottom line is what we agreed to.

That’s what I do, along with negotiating a drive-out price (“I don’t care how you allocate the dollars, here’s what I’m willing to spend in total”). If I know what dealer cost is I’ll offer something that leaves a small spread for and see what happens.

I don’t know about “beating” the house, but it is possible to get the house to be reasonable by having a number that works for you and being willing to walk out over it.  

That sounds awful, and is the sign of a bad dealership. 

Um, this isn’t great advice. A base model and the higher performance model will drive completely different. Test driving a base Focus and the Focus RS are completely different and will handle much different.