I believe the official color name is Rosso Speciale.

The pop-out cupholders suck, which likely makes the car a non-starter for a lot of customers.

Must be the over-the-air CrowdStrike update. 

Amazing package and drivetrain, undone by that stupid LCD gauge cluster, which is nearly identical to the equally stupid one they put on the contemporary RC51. I had one of those and in plenty of instances in the bright sun, it was truly unreadable.

Man, Jalops are a tough crowd.

A manufacturer makes a fun, sporty coupe—with better dampers and brakes, no less, and an improved, more responsive engine--and we have to bitch about it?

Unfortunately, like eggs, houses and educations, cars aren’t cheap anymore. But a new car under $40,000 is well below the average…

The original E28 M5 was somewhere around 3,150 pounds (Euro spec; North American spec was perhaps 200+ pounds heavier).

This new M5 is a full three Isettas heavier than the original. That’s nuts. And it is not progress, despite the increases in speed and efficiency.

Eh, if you and your spouse are making $300,000+, I don’t think that’s an “annoyingly low” phase out. Tax breaks shouldn’t be for the wealthy. Making $300,000 or more per year puts you in the top 5% of higher percentile for American families. 

Shame that it’s missing a pedal.

There are a ton of comments here about denying insurance coverage for people who ride without a helmet. The logic here is that it costs “society” a lot more to take care of people injured or killed because they lacked a helmet.

By that same logic, I must ask: Should we deny health coverage for anyone who smokes? What…

When I ride, it is (almost) always with a helmet. So, that is where I am coming from personally, asI see this issue is about personal choice.

There are certainly some talented marksmen on some police forces, but there are so many stories of cops emptying their weapons and people either being barely shot, not at all or somehow not as severely wounded as hundreds of shots should have left them.

Remember the hunt for the rogue copy in the Nissan Titan 11 years…

I was gonna say the same. Thank goodness cops are terrible shots. Essentially point blank and both guns emptied. And the guy is still around? Should be given a get out of jail free card for having to deal with that idiocy.

I don’t believe that’s it at all. I mean, you could make a pretty similar argument that it would easy to corrupt some less intelligent.

The official argument is that highly intelligent people get bored easily and leave the force too soon after a department has invested training time in that person. I kind of believe…

Actually, in some jurisdictions it’s pretty easy to be too smart to be a cop. I am not making this up. My brother knows this fellow personally. This would be a comedy if it weren’t so ridiculous.

Former V70 R owner here. Can confirm the fun. Mine was red with the Atacama leather (almost orange; not sure why they would name a leather after one of the driest places on Earth). Spaceball six-speed was awesome. Brembos were awesome. Adjustable Ohlins suspension was awesome. Cargo space was awesome. Seats were…

I attended that race and the only way we knew what was going on was my Italian friend we were with who was getting texts from his friends in Italy. Zero clue in the stands that the Michelin teams were going to bail. That race was a hard suck, but it gave Tiago Monteiro his sole F1 podium while driving for Jordan. He…

I met the dude once, appropriately enough at a car show, and had lunch with him. He was legitimately a car guy. Did he have grease under his finger nails? Not sure, but I don’t think that matters. He loved his cars and was somewhat unassuming about them, though I do recall him showing me the car barn photos on his…

There are about $20 billion in municipal and state-funded stadium deals that scoff at he paltry few millions Chicago has wasted on NASCAR.

I almost forgot. Since the Bears have threatened to move to Arlington Heights, the city of Chicago is considering more than $2 billion in upgrades to Soldier Field.

NASCAR are…

Please tell me that thing is called “Shish Carbab.”

CarPlay is standard on the Kia Soul. STANDARD on an entry-level vehicle that starts just under $20,000.

I hope the competitors with their cheap cars mock BMW right back to the sea in South Korea with this bullshit.