...or the passenger's unprecedented ability to adjust and fold the sideview-mirrors, and take control of the driver's window. That will be a fun feature!
I sort of get the feeling that Toyota is treating MY2020 like an early beta release. And should the car prove to be successful and have a long run, the 2020 cars will be seen as an oddball 2019.5 model.
Toyota and BMW have radically different business models. About 60% of all new BMW's will be leased, as opposed to 20% for Toyota. They price them accordingly. BMW knows that a person leasing a car really doesn't care what the MSRP is as long as the payments are right. Since Toyota plans on...
There are a lot of things that will effect the MSRP in the US. VAT, tariffs, manufacturing processes, sales/marketing (maybe loss leader) strategy... stuff like that.
However, having said that, I think that a pricepoint that starts in the $50K USD range (and ends around $65K with all the gravy...
I dunno... Magna Steyr is in Austria... and that road looks sorta Alps-ish. Maybe they had a guy throw a pre-production hood in the back of a van, drive out to the country and snap a few pics with his phone. Because from the standpoint of image quality, framing, composition... that looks about...
Just about everyone is teaming up with everyone else to develop autonomous vehicles. There are a lot of incestuous relationships being formed. It's largely because the underlying tech is being developed by a relatively small amount of companies.
It's only because of clever marketing spin that...
So glad you brought this up. I don't think a lot of the buying public realizes that we are nearing the final generation of all-gas sports cars. So when I hear people nitpick upcoming models of the tiniest things, I kind of want to say "Hey pal, not only will the next model not have a manual. it...