I always called out ‘Autopilot’ name misleading. It is a fancy radar cruise control + automatic steering.

Seeing its name already makes my head shake in disgust & disappointment.

After test driving one in the evening in downtown (right at the heart of rush hour, stupid I know), I would wholeheartedly agree.

After a recent test drive, I’m going cheat a little (around ~$7~10k more); BMW i3. The thing has great low-end torque, drives great despite bicycle tires, supremely quiet at low speeds, good comfort with lots of infotainment options/toys and being an EV means sitting in gridlock will have negligible effects on range.

Agreed, especially in the T8 plugin hybrid trim, you’ll get similar mileage to a Fusion Hybrid.

V90 T8 Twin engine PHEV or Torchinsky’s Pacifica Plug-in Hybrid minivan. Great size but Corolla-levels of fuel economy. Best of all you won’t get hit with unseen emission scandals with hybrids you risk in diesels these days.

There’s always more people in the world with more money than sense. I’m not at all surprised.

I say XE R-sport, S60 T6 R-design/Polestar (might be over budget), Q50 RS400 and ATS-V. I’m also somewhat tempted to say “Regal GS” but it is significantly cheaper but slightly more demure, but I can count the number of Regals I see in Toronto with one hand.

The Cayenne & Panamera is way too popular (especially in V6 guise), almost as bad as the other 3 popular German brands.

I concur. My first thought was this or Volvo S60.

I argue Americans are too brand conscious. It as if we are COMPELLED to have a BMW (even if it is a poverty-spec 320i with an automatic) on the driveway to feel superior to the neighbor who has a decked out Genesis 5.0 (now G80) which probably cost him less to buy, maintain and insure.

CES stands for “consumer electronic show”, yet auto maufacturers are prioritizing that to reveal new products over an auto show.

Kind of sad as one of the main arguments for a bigger gun than a 127mm was it be good ground-support fire without the cost of a Tomahawk missile from a DDG; but if they are only ~$200k cheaper...

I was waiting for this one. Many thanks

If this is what Germans/Sweden needs to do to sell wagons...err, sorry, CUVs in North America, then so be it. The more the merrier & the fact each sale removes an extra SUV off our streets is a good thing.

The new Civic sedan looks perfectly fine. The hatch looks WAY to busy at the rear end however.

If one thing GM still hasn’t quite figured out, practicality doesn’t sell cars to image-conscious Americans. If it did, explain why no family owns a hatchback, a minivan & a station wagon.

I still think EV, Hydrogen and other green motoring should be what gets the money.

Won’t happen. Until Koreans actually gets their heart pumped with high powered sports cars or have any form of appreciation towards great handling cars, Hyundai will never ‘get it’. Car culture simply doesn’t exist enough in Korea.

Now I really miss the homologation rules