Knees.
The vehicles that have most often attempted to plow into my lane without signaling/looking are SUVs. Also, these individuals are frequently on cell phones.
Ah, the Jaguar S-Type R. Never before has a 400 horsepower car felt more boring. Quick acceleration, subpar handling, strong brakes, awful seats, and an automatic transmission that's smooth but not intelligent. Try entering and exiting a corner agressively with the S-Type R. It falls a good deal short of amazing.
Car manufacturers know full well that the vast majority of SUV owners will never tow anything. Anyone who is serious about towing would get a diesel truck with four-wheel drive capability. The only "SUVs" I really think are decent are the Mercedes-Benz G-Class and the VW Touareg TDI. Well, and Toyota Four Runners and Hummer H1s, I guess.
The best "automatic" version of a manual transmission is not, in my opinion, Porsche Tiptronic, BMW Steptronic, or any other torque-converter-possessing transmission that allows user selection of gears. It's nice, but BMW's SMG-2 and SMG-3 or Maserati's Cambiocorsa transmissions are superior. They are manual transmissions with a computer-operated clutch.
My fuel economy with both my Audi and VW (quattro Torsen all-wheel drive vs. Haldex front-biased all-wheel drive) was/is worse than it was with my BMW. Then again, the power curve on my cars has also steadily increased under peak horsepower.
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What about this new Mercedes 7-tronic? or some kind of name, I am not sure anymore how it is called