Best recent EV interior I’ve seen, maybe along with the Honda e. Also great to see a move away from animal skin.

I hear where you’re coming from, but FWD is just plain unsafe, and it won’t do. It should really be AWD, by which I mean it’ll sometimes send 10% of the power to the rear for a second.

How’s the outward visibility? The sedan is probably better for this, but i love that BMWs of the past had relatively large greenhouses.

BMW Films presents: Clive Owen. BMW M2 CS. V-Max.

I want a reenactment of this with ice-cool Clive Owen as the next BMW Films installment.

Beautifully written and researched. You’re right about expectations and subjectivity, and that brings up a third point in determining whether these are “failures”:

According to the study cited:

In my state you have to have 6 hours of on-road driving with an instructor to get your permit. But before that I did my first miles in my parents’ Dodge Intrepid and Chevy Astro. Both were automatic cars with a column shifter. When the time came to do the 6 hours, I was already pretty comfortable in a car.

The “good enough” point is spot-on. It’s to the extent that the efficiency and emissions improvements in the last decade or two are being negated by people buying SUV’s. Engines are cleaner and more efficient than before, but people are simply buying larger vehicles, so they cancel each other out.

Maybe Charger, more like. Mustang and camaro are dedicated sport coupes, different segment. Also, apparently the is500 weighs the same as a mustang, with more usability to boot. But I don’t think those will get cross-shopped a lot.

Oh god, I think I love this thing. Where else can you get an RWD NA V8 with a limited slip? I love that they’re just shoving that V8 everywhere they can, Hellcat-style. A manual would be amazing, but manuals were never really Lexus’ MO, and the M3 is the only one left standing on that front.

“beefed it”, eh? I just can’t keep up with the kids’ sex slang...

I honestly did not know that. However, either way it’s a standard that manufacturers have to comply with. Do they have leeway to underreport their own numbers? 

That’s fair. I’m not going to suggest Tesla influenced the EPA to publish a fake number for the Porsche. But the whole point of a standardized test is to get an apples-to-apples comparison. While the testing environment may not be super realistic, all other cars have gone through it. The Taycan result looks like the…

That 203 number always felt like a hit job. I’m guessing quite a few customers walked away from a Taycan and into a Tesla because of that number.

Yea. There are a few on Thingiverse too, but they’re vertical. I wanted to monut mount it at an angle. I’m sure there’s a way to mount it with some home depot hooks too

If y’all have access to a 3D printer, I can send you the file for the wall-mount hooks

The Sian turned out too big for any of my counter space, but I love it on a wall

MB-Tex. I swear, the amount of times I’ve been strolling through a junkyard and opened the door of a trashed W124 diesel to see flawless seats...

You weren’t wrong, it’s much tougher to offroad with a hangover.