Infiniti or Acura. They’ve had the same runway as Lexus yet both brands mean nothing. They are dated, rebadged appliances with some cheap leather for people who couldn’t get approved at BMW or Audi.

Yep quite a few in LA too

Nah, they fill this strange middle ground between regular/domestic brands and luxury brands, and the modern designs are quite smart. I see XC90s anywhere from the private school car pool lane to a Dollar Tree.

Good (sad) shout. Jaguar is cooked - and Waymo is switching the fleet to Hyundai IONIQ 5s.

I reserve this word for very few people, but he really is a massive cunt.

All terrible ideas. Go big or go home I say. $40k comfortably gets you into a heavily-depreciated Mercedes S-Class, even the larger S560 V8 model. Get a CPO’d one from MB or one from Carmax and you’ll have a warranty. Another option is an Audi A8L. This one is $7k under budget with only 30k miles. Rock solid,…

I live in Napa and I was coming back from the airport in an Uber the other day at 1am when a group of 40+ of these morons shot past in their mediocre RWD cars and proceeded to block an intersection by the 80 freeway and run a red light.

New full size Range Rovers still have them! They are great, although I really only use the tailgate for a tick inspection on my dog after long hikes.

It’s the year 2040.

Now that’s a drop in the Ocean.

Maybe this is actually spot on... I’m a Pisces with a full-size Range Rover. But only a full-size, anything smaller than a RR Sport is an Aries. ;)

It looks so much better - and then I realized it’s because it looks like a Golf GTI from 2018. Why didn’t the Jetta look like this in 2019 at launch instead of the fugly Jetta we got instead?

Growing up in the UK, my Dad liked German cars. He grew up in social housing but put himself through medical school. As a young doctor with a 3 year old and another baby (me) on the way, he traded his old Vauxhall Astra in for his first ever “nice” car - a 1987 E30 BMW 3-Series saloon, complete with hubcaps and plaid…

I was trying to think what it reminds me of, yes some Ford Focus, but also lots of 2010's Fiat Bravo

Yes 100% agree, this isn’t a Panamera or a Cayenne. No problem not being standard on a performance car like a 911.

In other news: rain is wet. Porsche (and other German manufacturers) have been doing this with options for decades. I’ve ordered 4 new Porsches in the last decade. My 2018 911 Carrera didn’t even have memory seats because I forgot to add to the factory order. It literally had a black plastic lever under the seat pull…

In fairness, $71k is the new $51k

A new, manual Porsche 911 Carrera S, of course. Dark blue over tan. Nice wheels, upgraded Bose surround system and a sunroof, that’s it. Nothing too extreme, just a timeless car in a tidy spec. Every day I miss my old 991 and I’m finally getting an allocation next year for a 992.2 which is going to be a “lifer” for…

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$80k is the new $60k, so it feels priced right, especially as it seems like a huge step up in terms of tech, refinement, and quality from the current gas XC90 - which incredibly is almost 10 years old. I’m also not sure anyone shopping for a Volvo SUV cares about standing out, perhaps quite the opposite. It’s also 100…