The 7.5R, just might’ve been the 997, ironically my fave modern Porsche gen. (Settle down nerds, 964 tops all)
It’s got more jam, sounds better, and oohhhh that sweet dopamine hit of double clutching into third, at 5k rips….
The early caveat is what many other reviews shared out of the gate, too digital and haptic. But, I’m ok with that, being a virtual Gort, and giving HVAC instructions via voice instruction.
I’ve yet to go drift mode, as summer rubber awaits, where I’ll go all C2S on those porker rims.
Sounds awesome. It's getting so hard to avoid the digital crap so whatever. I've never heard a bad word about the driving dynamics so I don't blame you at all for prioritizing that. I bet it's a blast.
Cool yet another absolutely unobtainable 150k station wagon. Sweet.
I don't really like 2020 and onward BMW. Except for the previous gen M2. The only car they gotten right.
I'm going to have to take a minute and try to figure out how we got to the point where I can't differentiate between BMW, Mercedes and Hyundai interiors. Like, look up the interior of a 2024 Hyundai Sante Fe and then that new 5 series. It's the same fricken thing.
My G80 has a digital dash cluster. It's really nice and it has a 3D thing and I love how when I turn my signal light on either the left or right gauge becomes a screen of the blind spot camera's view...it's a great safety feature. BUT there is something really hollow and cheap about everything being a screen in some ways. Think of, like, those videos of a bomb shelter or something they try to make look liveable by having a fake picture of the outside. Like a screen that makes it look like you're looking through a window at a nice vista. Nice try, but not authentic/real. These screens are like that.
I was driving my wife's '22 Telluride the other day and I was really appreciating the analogue gauges and the finishing on them. There's still a centre screen between the dials for the blind spot camera views, but I think we're totally losing something now that all these cars are starting to look identical inside. Especially when we know it's just cost savings BS.
Did you see Doug Demuro's video on the new E-class today? Screens from left to right across the entire dash. Door to door. Passenger had their own screen. It's terrible.
I'm going to have to take a minute and try to figure out how we got to the point where I can't differentiate between BMW, Mercedes and Hyundai interiors. Like, look up the interior of a 2024 Hyundai Sante Fe and then that new 5 series. It's the same fricken thing.
My G80 has a digital dash cluster. It's really nice and it has a 3D thing and I love how when I turn my signal light on either the left or right gauge becomes a screen of the blind spot camera's view...it's a great safety feature. BUT there is something really hollow and cheap about everything being a screen in some ways. Think of, like, those videos of a bomb shelter or something they try to make look liveable by having a fake picture of the outside. Like a screen that makes it look like you're looking through a window at a nice vista. Nice try, but not authentic/real. These screens are like that.
I was driving my wife's '22 Telluride the other day and I was really appreciating the analogue gauges and the finishing on them. There's still a centre screen between the dials for the blind spot camera views, but I think we're totally losing something now that all these cars are starting to look identical inside. Especially when we know it's just cost savings BS.
Did you see Doug Demuro's video on the new E-class today? Screens from left to right across the entire dash. Door to door. Passenger had their own screen. It's terrible.
So many manufacturers are just putting ghastly rectangular screens right across the entire dash, not even containing a digital dash within a traditional binnacle. It looks so lame.
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I'm all for a 10 inch center console screen. But taking away tactile switches and dials or making your steering wheel controls haptic screen touches (VW cough cough) is just the dumbest.
I'll also add in gear selectors and the way they've turned into buttons and dials. I mean I guess it was always going to end up that way when we went away from Manual transmissions.
Also CVTS. I knid of feel like the French won the car wars. They're turning into soulless tools with no personality.
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The French, infamous for having "quirky" cars that area very different from convention, are to blame for cars becoming soulless and having no personality? wat
The Chevy EV truck has a neat feature, you can fold down the entire rear of the truck cabin for even more bed space. Folding it down starts at about the 4:00 mark.
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The French, infamous for having "quirky" cars that area very different from convention, are to blame for cars becoming soulless and having no personality? wat
How can you call the Citroen DS soulless? I'd love to drive one.
The Chevy EV truck has a neat feature, you can fold down the entire rear of the truck cabin for even more bed space. Folding it down starts at about the 4:00 mark.
The Avalanche was the same, it was a nice feature, extra bed space for hauling, I had a tent for mine that opened into the cab. Plus removing the rear window while cruising through the mountains was kinda nice.
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The Avalanche was the same, it was a nice feature, extra bed space for hauling, I had a tent for mine that opened into the cab. Plus removing the rear window while cruising through the mountains was kinda nice.
The Avalanche had so many great innovations like storage in the sides of the bed, too. They never quite levelled it up enough in terms of looks - was so awkward. I think had they given it one more generation it would have been the perfect truck. They were totally on the right track.
The Avalanche had so many great innovations like storage in the sides of the bed, too. They never quite levelled it up enough in terms of looks - was so awkward. I think had they given it one more generation it would have been the perfect truck. They were totally on the right track.
My mom had one back when i was 16.
Could never use the extra cargo bed feature as we lived near a ton of gravel roads and it would absolutely dust up the cab.
The side storage was where we snuck booze into festival event parking lots when the cops were checking!
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I'm going to have to take a minute and try to figure out how we got to the point where I can't differentiate between BMW, Mercedes and Hyundai interiors. Like, look up the interior of a 2024 Hyundai Sante Fe and then that new 5 series. It's the same fricken thing.
My G80 has a digital dash cluster. It's really nice and it has a 3D thing and I love how when I turn my signal light on either the left or right gauge becomes a screen of the blind spot camera's view...it's a great safety feature. BUT there is something really hollow and cheap about everything being a screen in some ways. Think of, like, those videos of a bomb shelter or something they try to make look liveable by having a fake picture of the outside. Like a screen that makes it look like you're looking through a window at a nice vista. Nice try, but not authentic/real. These screens are like that.
I was driving my wife's '22 Telluride the other day and I was really appreciating the analogue gauges and the finishing on them. There's still a centre screen between the dials for the blind spot camera views, but I think we're totally losing something now that all these cars are starting to look identical inside. Especially when we know it's just cost savings BS.
Did you see Doug Demuro's video on the new E-class today? Screens from left to right across the entire dash. Door to door. Passenger had their own screen. It's terrible.
I was at the car show back in early March, and some of the digial clusters/guages in vehicles were just awful. One that stood out as particularily cheap looking were the KIAs. Their digital guages were terrible. I'm not sure if it was just a Demo mode and maybe you can choose your cluster, but they looked like a module some PLC programmer created.
Would prefer the current M3 touring they refuse to homologate
Arguably the best all around wagon on the planet. Not sure why they wouldn't bring the M340i and M3 Touring versions to North America. Still expensive but a little more accessible than the 5 series.
