I hate these things already, but putting them on a car that starts over $100,000 is just asinine. No thank you!
It's a matter of principle. This bullshit must be nipped in the bud. Greedy morons.
That's exactly how you drive people away from your brand.
I paid ~2k for Boost for my Tesla; functionally the same thing. But at least if travels with the car if I sell it (if you find someone who values it properly). Subscriptions like this is just burning the $$. Serious feelsbadman.
If I were to make rational decisions when buying a car I would've been a proud owner of previously owned Toyota Corolla in a stylish beige color.
In this particular case I feel like being manipulated into paying more and generally taken advantage off. Just like with any unsubstantiated subscription.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/18/electric-porsche-taycan-catc...
In this case no one was hurt but there was another owner in China who wasn't so lucky.
Edit: JFC people. I'm not endorsing spending $100k on a car. I'm saying even if you do it's still a pretty bad deal since it fails to meet the high baseline that is expected of luxury vehicles. WTF did I do to draw your ire?
Nah, even the Porsche Cayman is more prestigious than the Tesla Plaid.
The EQE weighs 5300lbs. The EQS weighs 6200lbs. It is amazing and impressive how quickly they can accelerate, but inertia is still a thing and those things are not going to be even remotely nimble.
By comparison, the 911 at its heaviest (AWD, convertible) is 3800lbs. A porker for sure, but most configs are closer to 3400lbs.
And a Porsche Cayman weighs between 3000 - 3200lbs depending on trim.
Unless/until batteries get a lot lighter, even heavy GTs don’t have a lot to be nervous about in the fun-to-drive category.
A fun EV would first of all be non-SUV but low air drag, non-luxury, non anything that's not needed to move. But even that would only provide higher possible cruising speeds compared to other EVs, but still inferior to ICEs.
Time isn’t a huge concern to me at least. Typical sports cars get maybe 50-100 miles on a tank of gas at a track day, and breaks are nice anyway. Even spirited driving on mountain roads isn’t nearly that tough; you can’t use 500hp all that often.
But that weight…. Ugh. I’m interested to see the new Tesla roadster, but it’s probably still >4000lbs. And weight just takes the fun out of anything.
AMG would like a word: there's always a bigger flex.