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If you love music and have Roon, install ARC

First of all, I don’t like what BMW is currently doing. They concentrate on China with the i7 and don’t use the full EV potential because their EVs and ICE use the same basis. On the other hand, it mustn’t be good to build EVs with a different interiors just to be different. Tesla is a good...

Ceramic brakes are not per se better than regular breaks. The weight is an argument because of mass inertia. But it must have the right temperature to deliver the best breaking performance. I doubt that on a 70 mph trip without really breaking for hundreds of miles. Here in Germany it could make...

You are right, reduction in unsprung weight is always an advantage. It makes the cassis more agile and improves traction. On the other hand it is not necessary for avoiding fade on downhill drives. Recuperation is underestimated. Recuperating with 300+ kWh doesn’t require any real braking...

In theory the track idea makes sense. But not a single diver uses ceramic brakes e.g for Porsche Cup Racing. You will destroy your brakes within a day. Ceramic breaks don’t like the combination of hight temperatures and shocks. And that’s what happens on a track. A Lucid is not a Formular 1...

I had ceramic brakes on my Audi S8 plus. That made sense. But I live in Germany and I could drive it with up to 190 mph on the Autobahn. Fast driving here means a lot of breaking for slower cars. Driving 190 mph you do once per year at 5am on a Sunday morning but 150 mph is not unusual. Now I...

There is the same discussion about my Mercedes EQS. I think that this is not a problem for long distance trips. For short trips it is less efficient. But from a range point of view it actually doesn’t matter.

I will do. But this is less impressive than you may think. You cannot drive long distances at such a high speed. There is too much traffic.

There is nothing special from Lucid. From the government you can get incentives, if the car’s price is below a limit. But the Lucid is far too expensive. There is just one thing that makes expensive EVs attractive in Germany. If a company buys a car for an employee and allows private usage. The...

Today I have received prizing information for Germany: AGT € 159.000 w/o DD pro, 21“, Atmos, full € 179.000 all including taxes. Dream Edition was € 219.000.

I’m afraid that Mercedes has the permission. But you cannot buy it for the S-Class or EQS right now. At least it is not in the German configurator. On the other hand I can tell that the normal system works extremely well. Today I have driven from Zürich to Munich, about 200 miles, without a...

Munich is alway worth a visit. But have you been to the BMW World?

Its of course my personal opinion but there is a difference between bling bling and luxury. Active ambient lights, hyperscreen and other features are nice. But its not luxury when everything below the dashboard is plastics, if the piano lacquer is plastics, .. I have owned a Range Rover...

From a European point of view, I would say that size does‘t matter. ;) The question is, how it is positioned. The Lucid is a drivers car, not a chauffeur car for the Chinese market. The i7 is different. The focus is the second row, make it 10% longer and sell 50% in CN, 20% UAE, SA, …, US <...

We are from Munich in Germany. A week ago I reserved a Grand Touring (right after a closer look at the i7 ;)). Currently we own 2 EVs. I drive an EQS 580 and my wife a BMW i3s. One of the last produced.