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Saturday afternoon, 27F air temp, battery temp in the 90s F, plugged in at 12% and immediately hit 241kW then maxed out at just shy of 260. By the time I took these pictures and ran into the adjacent hotel to use the bathroom, I was already way past what I needed for kWh. I know that some...

I’m hoping the i3 M Touring will be available here in North America. Its potential availability in 2028 matches up when my Taycan will be at over 100k miles. Either that or I’ll try to convince myself that the iX4 M is merely a somewhat bloated wagon and not a pointlessly squashed / squished SUV.

For the podium, and adding my own Olympic theme: GOLD medal to Subaru with 82 points. SILVER medal to BMW with 82 points. BRONZE medal to Porsche with 79 points. Scoring criteria are ... unclear.

For any who enjoys meaningless "depreciation"-related calcs, here's $104.73 per mile: https://finder.porsche.com/us/en-US/details/porsche-taycan-4s-cross-turismo-my24-preowned-MQDX6D

Yes, my 4CT continues to decline in resale value. But my decline in resale value after the ~90k miles I eventually drive will be about the same as the original owner's decline after ~18k miles.

Yes, I'm greatly appreciative to the original owner of my 4CT! Even at retail, he suffered a ~$43k price differential, plus whatever he paid for window tinting and PPF, add in whatever the differential is between what I paid vs what he received in trade-in value, and that's about $50k. You alas...

The rapid diminution in resale value (i.e., "depreciation") means the cost of ownership is less for all of us. (If we buy used.)

The conglomerate accounts for slightly over one percent on the entire nation's GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vingroup Although VW Group global revenue is about 7% of German GDP, wow!

Even given how much everyone here complains about base Macan loaners? And looks really close here: https://www.caranddriver.com/rankings/best-suvs/luxury/compact For a Macan and GV70 with the same pricing, which would be the better vehicle overall? (I don't profess to know the answer, especially...

They would have to offer to *pay* me more than $200/month to drive that!

They were so bad at first that anyone who bought them had to be either too ignorant or too broke to buy a used Japanese car instead. But now, Hyundai and corporate twin Kia make excellent cars (although Kia dealerships still specialize in preying on the ignorant and/or broke). And some Genesis...

Does the Yugo count as recent history? Either way, unlike the Yugo, probably in only several years VinFast will be producing cars that are nearly as good as a Taycan yet half the price. Laugh if you will, while you can, but remember how we laughed so much at anyone who bought a Hyundai when...

The driver in this video is *NOT* touching the accelerator pedal (or doing anything else, other than hitting the brake pedal upon worrying that a tire will literally explode): https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18B1UucNvD/?mibextid=wwXIfr

So the body shop had it for three weeks straight, and received $2,553.35 from USAA. I talked for probably a cumulative couple hours with the technician. Some of the delay was for an appointment at the Porsche dealer for a calibration appointment that never became available. But they found...

So after not being energized from August 2024 to November 2025, after a little over a month of operations … … yes, that’s right, it’s already broken! And just in time for a participant in my ski mountaineering race at the nearby ski area, on a day that is starting off well below 0F and not...

Interesting that you have that reaction to the i4. Whenever I drive my wife's i4, I prefer the UI, along with the lack of mysterious fleeting error messages (no, my right charging port flap is NOT open!), out-of-place calendar appointments, recall visits (although my Taycan has been relatively...

And the irony is that I was travelling to a safety-related event (ski patrol annual refresher training for instructors in avalanche safety and mtn travel/rescue). The good part is that my Taycan probably would have been totaled were it not ... a Taycan, with the ability to pull of a crazy fast...

I sure hope that the chance of losing money on the life insurance for my wife and myself is more like 7.99999 out of 8. Meanwhile, had I not lucked out in a way with the deer hit covering my camera failure, I would have been looking at a high four-figure (at least) bill, which Safe-Guard would...

Agreed, it’s not an insurance policy, but it’s the same analysis of whether to effectively self-insure against a financial risk or instead purchase some sort of contract.

^ Those weren't the numbers for my particular situation. Also a potentially big difference between expected values vs risk aversion. So I suppose that means it's all feelings-based, yet informed by quantitative factors. Purely on an expected-value basis, I would never buy any type of...