Good points, but how many trucks are involved in local transfer, as opposed to over-the-road? Perhaps the local transfer (warehouse to store; warehouse to delivery point; etc.) routes with all of that starting and stopping on surface streets will mark the first level of change. Transfer drivers rarely log more than…

You’re gonna need about 200 kidneys, a shitload of livers and perhaps a few dozen lungs to get in on this action.

Came here to say this, after checking the font of all knowledge, a.k.a. the Google and noticed the same date. This guy needs a new nickname now.

The question is: How durable is that adhesive sandwich up high in the blazing sun?

Really? Holy shit that’s a ton of dough for the athletic director at UCF, of all places. Crikey!

No, I don’t think that’s the case. It’s still the same level of factory tint as when new. I have garaged the car since new, with a few months here and there parked outside. It hasn’t been babied, but I also haven’t neglected it that much. It’s just a bad idea on BMW’s part to give the car more headroom and keep the…

Oh, I wish it were that simple.

I will soon be moving to a hotter climate, so I may have to do that. But I don’t daily the thing any more, so it may be irrelevant at this point. Good call on the non-destructive tint. It still pisses me off.

Over the years, since I bought it new in ‘02, I have considered trading it for a Cayman S (a similar car with a similar market; just a tad pricier), a Subaru STI (for the whole fam damily) and even a 1M coupe, but six years ago, the M coupe wasn’t drawing the kind of cash it is today. I have essentially double the…

Do they even get the numbers they are asking for their cars? I truly wonder.

Ugh. It is already tinted. BMW might do some stupid shit (Hello, plastic water pump impellers, I’m talking to you!), but they got that part right.

There is no escape from the sun. I have contemplated rattle canning it with some sort of exhaust paint, but then it would just be a ginormous mess when the inevitable…

Not without significant fabrication. The non-sunroof panel used to be available and it was apparently a pretty easy swap. I am not sure if the headliner was ever available, because I only knew of racers that made the switch. But it takes 85 pounds (????!!!!) right off the highest point of a 3,150-pound car and…

I have to wear a fucking hat when I drive on sunny days, and I don’t even have a roadster. Stupidest fucking idea ever. Look at the Z4 coupes? Double-bubble roofs for everyone!

This is one of 678 BMW Z3 M Coupes produced with an S54 engine, one of 340 built in 2002, and one of only 24 S54 M Coupes in Steel Gray with a Dark Gray/Black interior and a sunroof.

As I understood it two years ago, right after the story broke, Bosch admitted to writing the software at the behest of Volkswagen to allow then to develop the engine, as VW had the (now obviously unattainable) goal of creating an oil burner with good power, torque and efficiency without a urea-injection system. So,…

Excellent idea! They could replace, say, the left rail one day and the right rail the next and finally the third rail the following day, with zero service interruption.

All on a an underground system below sea level first conceived more than 140 years ago.

Reverse: There, you said, Porsche is “one of the world’s leading luxury car manufacturers,” not “one of the world’s leading sports car makers. You could have at least tossed the word truck in there, for good measure.

It’s camp, my good man, camp.

I just watched Breaking Away again, for the first time in, say, 30 years or so. Another good alternative.

I thought I was the only schmuck who saw that movie. Mutant killer cockroaches, Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard and Moocher from Breaking Away—what’s not to like?