Much as oil-barons and their toadies in DC want, EVs are not going away. EVs are FAR better as appliance-like personal transportation (less maintenance, instant acceleration, smoother operation, no gas station visits) than slow, noisy ICE vehicles.

I can’t understand why in this day and age of automation, a company like Toyota still refuses to let their customers custom order their cars like BMW does.

All of this is motivated by the fact that automatics have surpassed manuals for fuel economy, so every manual that a company sells comes with a cost to their fleet average. Because they really, really, don’t want to sell too many manuals, they will not only cap production at some low number, but also put them in the…

This is a chicken or the egg for supply and demand.  The manufacturer says there is no demand (even though there most likely is) and then builds less than 300.  Customers can’t find any (no supply) and settle for an automatic.  Manufacturer claims no one buys them and refuses to produce any more for the next model…

In any other major automobile manufacturer Elon would have been immediately fired for all the customer alienation stuff he’s pulled.

That Koenigsegg/Saab deal was so close to happening a while back before Spyker jumped in. 

They used to all be under fiat until ferarri was spun off as an independent entity, and still share some tech

Thing has always looked like a clown car to me with that bulbous greenhouse. This update is also bad.

Yep, take away the Murica / Trump / Hemi that made these things appealing to a certain demographic and watch the sales evaporate.

They cancelled the top two RWD selling sports cars, put this in its place with an absurd price tag and now they have to discount it nearly 25% just to get people to look at it.  Definitely an own goal.

Uh....I have a solution — maybe don’t start them at $85K?

Is it possible that Stellantis will ever get back into the business of making cars that people actually want to buy?

These appear occasionally in “glider” form on the second hand market. They were brought to the US w/o drivetrains for use in some EV-type startup (think Coda, but w/trucks).

Tesla are a dead company walking. They ever make money on that German factory I’ll eat my hat. Here where I live in CA I see far far fewer than I used to. And the MAGA audience is not making up the numbers.
Would buy a BYD Seagull (drove one in the UK) tomorrow.

Sorry, I had to.

These are very beautiful in person and sound amazing, but they were trying to punch too far above their weight class. This needed to start at $180K

Ugh, a year and a half’s worth of lot rot is hard on any vehicle, much less a sketch-to-begin-with-Maserati. $83K is nowhere enough of a discount.

Jeremy Clarkson said it nicely: “Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear, great until it pulled your head off, which it would“

The BMW XM

And given their tendency to self destruct fairly rapidly--in some cases on the drive home from purchase--the problem might take care of itself.