Recent content by Engi_Nerd

Thigh bolsters are an underrated feature. Mine was a 2018, sold in 2023.Great vehicle that we still miss! The Mini color does look similar. Mini makes some of the best seats and interiors at any price point, IMO.

Yep! No idea why brown interior is such a rare option. I had a dark blue Alfa with brown seats and yellow calipers and got constant complements on it, everywhere I went. There were a handful of model years where you could get emerald green paint with the brown seats and it was ridiculously nice...

Burn! Sadly, we can't all drive Wrangler 4xEs, which are truly excellent vehicles that speak highly of their owners' ability to make good choices.

IX3 and EX60 will both be $70K by the time you add a handful of desirable options. These products are likely over-delivering on range and charging because they are still far (far) behind on software, connectivity, OTA-capabilities, and autonomy. I expect part of the reason Tesla and Rivian are...

Don't care about this at all but I'd personally give my left nut for a backup camera washer.

We've had six Teslas, with current M3P and MYLR. There are many minor irritations on these cars that Tesla could easily fix but has decided they don't want to. Worst door handles in the industry, horrible wipers, and a stock-focused form-over-function UI have been grating on every drive. Despite...

We just brought our Juniper MY in for a minor issue and they gave us a brand new Model X to bomb around in overnight. I will now spend the rest of my life listening to my wife complain about having to use her hands to open and close her car door. 0/10, would not recommend.

IMO, manufacturers offering new products with big range are doing so as a carrot because their software, OTA and connectivity architecture, and dealer experience are still pretty crap. Yes, you're going to get an extra 30-45 minutes of winter driving in an IX3 or equivalent Volvo, but those cars...

Agree with everyone that this appears to be a compelling package that is competitive with Model Y. I suspect that by the time you can buy a Forest Green R2 Performance with white interior and Lidar, you’re going to be over $70 grand after tax and fees. That said, this vehicle seems to fix a...

Odd that 10% of the planet still smokes cigarettes, lead is still being spreading everywhere in aviation fuel , and asbestos has yet to be fully outlawed. The markets cater to the first mover and governments rarely (if ever) hold anyone meaningfully accountable for damages. Elon is certainly a...

These relentless pearl-clutching threads are an embarrassing waste of everyone's time. The entire US economy functions the same exact way as Elon does, lying to the consumer and setting laughably unrealistic expectations that end up endangering entire generations of people. That's called...

The optics that they can produce a price-competitive Model Y fighter are more important than them actually making money right now. I expect they could cap it at $59,999.99 + some ridiculous shipping fee.

My family was impacted by this. My wife was T-boned at high speed in her Model Y and trapped in the vehicle. She was unfamiliar with the manual door releases since we'd not had the car long, and probably too disoriented to use them even if she'd been more familiar. The driver door had minimal...

Impressive that people’s $hittiness can still surprise me, even after twenty years of browsing car forums.

People get all up in arms about lidar and GPUs but the sensing / inference stack doesn't change US road design, maintenance, and driver discipline being some of the absolute worst. For me, the likelihood of coming across dangerous outliers seems like it will remain too high to go to sleep for...