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I recently attended a BMW M Track day. We got to drive a wide variety of BMW's, all the EV's (i4 m50, i5 m60, iX m60). The highlights were the M2 CS on the autocross track and several laps of our state's FIA track in the M3 and M4 Comp. Weight is the enemy of performance, if you have a chance...

Got the notification to install while I was flying home last night, 🤞it was going to work or I would have Uber'd it home! When available, the ADAS improvements are terrific, as others mentioned, early notification between areas without hands-free assist are consistent, and as for safety, it...

Houston service center was able to get me in for August 19th, here we go!

Follow-up to my problems accessing the car that happened to have been right after the 2.4.10 update. The service center verified the inoperative key fobs was not due to the software update, but a faulty security mode module. The key fobs were also replaced. The Houston service center's...

I was able to wake the car up this morning with the app, tried from both phones, even the wake up time is back to it’s post 2.4.4 speediness. Hoping this was a isolated experience with just a few!

For the past two days, I've been experiencing very inconsistent behavior with the passive unlocking. Finally, tonight I was unable to access the car. Tried two different iPhones, both 17.7, bluetooth instance for mobile key even shows connected! Unable to unlock via the key fob as well, even...

Received the notice to install 2.4.4 early this morning, Touring March '23 delivery. It took over two hours to install, first thing I noticed was the app on the phone needed to be restarted, had 70% SOC but was showing in red low battery. After the restart it reported the battery level...

They are consolidating HiFi and HiFi Plus into a single tier for $10.99 a month. I ended up cancelling after the trial, thought they were too much compared to Qobuz and Deezer. Might try it again to get Atmos back in the Air! Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read...

Motor Trend's comparo was looking for track pack Plaid as well, and as Tesla doesn't have a marketing department, they ended up borrowing a (non track pack) private one. But yeah, would have been fun to see!

This is bonkers, the fastest sedan through VIR, EV or ICE, over 11' ahead of the the Taycan Turbo S.

Must resist raiding the portfolio! Power + Money: 2024 Lucid Air Sapphire vs. Tesla Model S Plaid!

That was a well written article, we should be thankful that Rawlinson had so much engineering latitude; it is true the legacy marques are held back by compromises, be it engineering or design. A friend of mine just got a BMW i5 M60, and while I think it is a great effort by BMW, he thinks there...

For the most part the the update has been solid, only weird thing was audio selection between the audio UI and CarPlay. That is, if I play a Spotify track from the UI, it freezes, then the CarPlay symbol comes up, and it stops playing. My workaround is to kill the Spotify app on my phone. Not...

There always the leasing loophole for that...

Starting under $80K, they are absolutely dumping them. Why even look at say a GLE, X5 or even my own Cayenne, unless they are heavily substidized?! And forget about the Q8 e-tron, EQS/EQE and TMX...