It was genetic—this privileged fucker won the birth lottery.

BMW seems to have largely lost the plot since they did away with the naturally aspirated engines. I mean, it didn’t happen overnight, but that was the straw that broke the camel’s back in my blatant opinion.

And, yeah, the 335i is pretty damn quick. At least it has that going for it.

As others have pointed out, our national anthem, like almost every other country’s, has military origins, but that doesn’t make the signing of it a military exercise of demonstration, whether it happens at an NFL stadium with jets I paid for flying overhead or at my kid’s little league game with seagulls ready to drop…

Hah! I starred both, with good reason.

Here’s the funny thing about the “rights” our military goes overseas to defend (honestly, not sure if anyone in our all-volunteer force has actually done anything to “defend” America, other than hunt down and kill bin Laden, in recent decades): We like to say that they are defending our rights, but as soon as someone…

Compared to the SS, the 3 Series is definitely cramped. Have you tried the back seat? The performance envelope of a 328i is also not in the same league as the SS.

I respect Consumer Reports, but why do so many European cars in recent years have so many long-term problems? In the Eighties and early Nineties* you could…

Oh, man, this is basic, four-cylinder, cramped 3 Series money for V-8 5 Series performance, and with all the bells and whistles of a $70,000 to $80,000 5er.

I bought a Focus RS last year because I needed all-wheel drive. I know that’s not the point of the car, but with the optional second set of wheel with snow tires, it killed in the slippery stuff. (And also made drift mode a blast without killing the tires.)

I recently moved much farther south, where AWD is absolutely…

Or, dare I say it, minivan? Drives (more or less) like a big family car, has the high-level viewpoint of many SUVs, gets better mileage than an SUV and is so damn big a family with four kids can send each to a neutral corner in between rounds.

Wagons, and particularly Volvo wagons, have come a long way since 1986.

That’s what I was thinking, actually. I don’t do as many normal 20-mile commutes as I used to in the car. More like a trip in the afternoon to the kids’ neighborhood school to pick them up, since I now commute to my home office.

Well, it didn’t overheat. It was like a hard track session...only with five people in the car.

I don’t get out much when it comes to oohing and aahing over the latest compact CUV, but JTSnooks was right. I was talking about the HR-V. I saw one a year or two ago and just couldn’t believe this thing landed on Earth and I knew nothing about it. Lots of naming confusion out there.

Thanks for the info. Mine burned oil briefly a thousand miles ago, but has been fine since. Weird behavior, but I have been looking closely at the coolant every time I open the hood.

Not that I wish any problems on anyone, and the numbers should be more like 0.005%, but the 95% not having problems gives me some…

Wait, I thought Honda made the small, utility-ish HR-something or other. Or am I confused?

Has anyone taken a read on the numbers, in terms of percentage of cars this affects? What about build date? Mine was an early September 2016 build date, delivered in November of 2016 as a 2016 model year. Zero mods.

I should add that Ford is probably in their rights to deny warranty claims on a modified turbo engine,…

I was laughing when I read that and this popped into my head:

Do you mean a place that has been manufacturing cars since damn near the beginning of the industry?

Styrofoam, too. $@#@*@(#@)!!!!!

From the lessons learned the hard way files.

I was going to say that the Corrado felt like a ton more car than either GTI, though the Recaro seats, high-revving 2.0-liter 16V engine, four-wheel disc brakes and BBS wheels of the 16V GTI sure seemed like they were worth every penny over the 8V GTI.