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So true. AM interior looks like something Toyota dreamed up. And in a few years time, driving an ICE will be just about as cool as smoking cigarettes. But do as you must, Mr. Bond.

Having sat in this POS last week I cant resist inserting a comment, or two, regarding the hummer. For a car with a $114k price tag (which was being peddled at a local MB dealership for well north of $200k) there is an embarrassing amount of the cheapest plastic known to the auto industry; the...

Best advice I can give: Delay the instant gratification thing and keep the Porsche. In a few years time most ICE vehicles will become depreciation machines and you can have your pick of the dinosaur litter at a very nice price — unless of course this global warming thing just turns out to be a...

It is of course the Chinese HiPhi Z, yet another EV that boasts speedy 0-60 times, lots of "futuristic" tech, and design language borrowed from the Pontiac Prozac/Aztek team. The most noteworthy aspect of this car is that it comes (no pun intended) with a little robotic arm to interact with the...

My local MB dealer finally received the EQS 580 (in black) with hyper-screen so I swung by for a look. The thing was sold already so I could not drive it, but I could get inside, play with the settings, etc. Outside, the car did not look bad at all in real life, nor did it look overly huge...

Couldn't agree more, all ICE vehicles, no matter the level of refinement, are relics of the past. Noisy, messy, polluting mechanical contraptions. They served their purpose, but now it is time to leave the past in the past.

For sure keep the order and flip it if you don't like it. I'm in the same boat and ordered a Lyriq for my wife last week. Hopefully the Macan EV and Q6 eTron will make it to market before I have to park a bizarre looking Lyric in my garage; but almost anything EV is better than the...

That is such a good question! To me the thing looks like a complete douche-mobile.

Have not driven in a modern 911. I'm sure that they are nice, and I am sure that, like their Macan brethren, they are noisy and have last-century tachometers stuck front and center on their dashboards. ;)

Maybe I was a little harsh with the word "crude" but every ICE car I've driven since buying a Taycan has seemed crude/last century. And in fairness, the loaner Porsche gave me is the base Macan 4 cylinder with spring suspension. Literally every expansion joint and minor road imperfection is...

I concur. The iPace is not a bad ride at all, and having driven an ICE Macan this week as a loaner, well, let's just say Porsche has some work to do. I had never driven a Macan before and was shocked by what a crude little car it was! In fairness, it handled great, and I really liked the...

It is a chickenshit marketing strategy. BMW adopted a shared platform for EV, PHEV and ICE 7s and the result is nothing short of a be-all-things-to-all-people abortion. I'm just a little surprised that the clever Bavarians who designed this platform omitted the smokestack for a coal-fired 7.

The grill is especially easy to hate, but you touched on another really good point: the dated dash that was simply "updated" by bolting an ipad to it. IMO, BMW's interior problems started with the advent of nav screens. They never could seem to integrate artfully the screens with their...

Ive been wondering about this for many years. Then I recently watched (on Amazon I think) a program about Jaguar's development of the iPace -- its first ever electric car -- which of course sports a big, fat grill. After watching, and listening to Jag's head of design, I realized that the...

Hybrid-schmybrid, my midlife crisis will not involve any pit stops at last-century gas stations! I envision a future in which my eco-friendly 1000 HP e-718 (most likely black with acid green calipers) silently rockets away from a pretty red Ferrari 296 GTB as if it was standing still. :rock:

For sure, the 911 is Porsche's top ICE dog, but at only 640 HP (for the Turbo S) its relevance will quickly fade as soccer moms driving Model X's and yahoos driving Rivian pick-ups leave 911's in their dust. My guess is that that the 718 will have 1000 HP variants to fend off the competition...

This is perfect timing. Battery tech will be greatly improved in 4-5 years and I will be smack-dab in the middle of my midlife crisis! Just hope that Porsche sells a 1000+HP variant as any sports car with less than 1000 HP, by 2025/2026, will be for pussies and/or posers. Now to decide upon...

I'm in the Midwest and have literally only seen one other Taycan within 50 miles of my base. I ran into one at a Wal*Mart EA charging station but that was it. You would almost think the Taycan was a flying saucer based upon the locals' reactions. Hopefully Porsche will sell some of these...

I'd also like it if people would stop taking pics of my car while I am driving -- it is getting creepy. Just yesterday a passenger in a pick-up truck was hanging out the window snapping pics of the Taycan while driving down the highway. And to think, one of the things that attracted me to the...

The EQS is a production car and MB is taking orders, not reservations. The dealer in my example is indeed an unethical, opportunistic schmuck. ;)