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All I care about is whether the i3 M Touring will come to the U.S. - please pretty please BMW!

I checked the latest status, since I might have a reason to stop there briefly and ... almost two months later, still broken! https://www.plugshare.com/location/722964 CCS-1 Chevrolet Bolt EV 2017 As of today, these units are still down and awaiting repair. I called Vialynk customer service and...

I've had that occur with every single car I've ever owned.

So now, over the past couple weeks, the cameras have been ... functioning absolutely flawlessly. (Well, okay, so the view isn't great, but about, as flawlessly as they were designed to function.) Partway through all the 360-degrees cameras back to normal, I received the recall letter for the...

Well, the honeymoon is over now: hit a mere 252kW Thursday night. Perhaps bc of 17F air temps? Seriously though, this totally transforms the drive up there with my Taycan. Before it was keep the cabin cold, the speed below what is legally permissible, choose the route with the shortest distance...

I feel like the difference between adjusting to my Taycan vs A6ar isn’t all that much more than adjusting to my Taycan vs my wife’s i4.

Oh ... YEAH!!!! So at the start of my eight-day LA family trip (i.e., wife and daughter went to LA, so I went backcountry skiing on Mt Washington for eight days straight), I went to the new MB station in St J VT and had by far my best charging experience ever...

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