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? Really, you used to compare the S-Class to these as well as you have mentioned in the early days before the EQS actually started to ship that it would be in this class, now because Mercedes does not have anything to compete, you try to play it down. Just accept that Cadillac is getting here first ahead of Mercedes. END OF LINE!

Congrats on 100% missing the point there.

T-Tops Oh sure, we still have a car or 2 with manual removeable targa tops, like the C8 Corvette, but there was a time when there was another type of manual removeable top. The T-Top.

The last part shows why you are wrong. Somehow it never occurred to you that building the best quality EV was a better way to do business than selling in bulk right off the bat. Last I checked, it took Tesla almost a decade to manufacture at levels you see today and they STILL haven't gotten the quality down. Stop asking everyone else to do something else just because "that's enough volume" barely two years into the EV realm.

I wonder what is more urgent for Elon to fix? The million unit recalls his cars are faced with last month and the transport and logistical problems or the free speech Twitter ownership thing? Great humanitarian, philanthropist and leader he is. Bless him.

The actual successor to the original Cobra. Not the Viper. That one is a spiritual successor. And it wasnt a flop. It went away, but it didnt die quietly or unnoticed or unloved. The actual successor that Carrol himself designed and engineered. The Series 1 Shelby I think would make for a good story. It was engineered with all the usual high tech stuff of the day. Stuff that supercars today use. Aluminium tube chassis. Carbon Fibre in some body panels. A DOHC V8 (from Oldsmobile) producing 320 HP from 4 liters gets the HP per liter folk excited mounted completely behind the front axles for a front mid-engine design that supported a torque tube 6 speed ZF transaxle for optimal weight distribution. It had all the tech. It had the looks. It had the speed when the 4 liter Northstar variant produced a then almost class leading 450 horsepower making it get to 60 MPH in a blistering even for today 3.8 seconds and a 12 second quarter mile time. Just about the fastest in its era in those categories. It wasnt a track specialist of a car. Some other supercars of that time had slightly better spec in handling and braking, it was a very competent sports car. It looked the part of a Cobra successor. It had the speed and sound of a 1960s roadster, but perhaps the Viper that was launched earlier in the decade captured all the attention and had all the visceral performance that the Series 1 couldnt match. And it showed in the sales making it a flop. And even today, the Series 1, with only 249 of them produced, doesnt make anybody miss the car and their values are low. Vipers on the otherhand are starting to become desireable and quickly becoming quite expensive to obtain.

So now GM says they will produce 400,000 EV, across 2022, 2023 and first half of 2024. With 70,000 Bolts next year being the volume leader. That’s not enough volume, and that’s why this is still all up for grabs. If people want EV’s and you can’t meet demand customers will go elsewhere. This is more of a race to build capacity rather than build the best car. And this is no different than the 1910’s when most cars were hand built low volume and then Ford found a way to make a million Model T’s a year. They won because they had the most capacity, not because the Model T was a great car.