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I was going to post along these lines.

Well, if the terrible average driver can turn off the nanny on 400, 500, 600hp+ at their discretion, surely we can do the same for brakes. Most people now understand ABS, so I doubt it's a feature most people would mess with.

If you can afford a Veyron, you can afford to buy the time to play with it somewhere proper. My gosh, call Bugatti, it's not like there are thousands of owners; I'm sure they could arrange for you to get on that giant VW test track for a while and run 250mph for as long as you please.

Two reasons. One, loose surfaces. Locked brakes actually reduce stopping distances on loose surfaces (soft dirt, sand, gravel, even soft snow). Two, performance. Even in autocross ABS is extremely annoying. Trail braking into turns often unweights the inside tire(s) and engages ABS even though the other two or…

Giving the public at-large full access to a car's ECU is on the whole a bad idea, and absolutely one that will not happen. As it stands, manufacturers will not warranty any engine or even most driveline issues if you've had the ECU changed by an aftermarket professional tuner. John Doe? Ha!

The Suzuki Cappuccino, if we look at the performance segment. It's ridiculously Japanese. The whole car would fit in the trunk of some American cars. It's incredibly light, conservatively styled but yet with a uniquely cohesive and attractive look, and it has a tiny engine. Yet, it's a car infused with precise…

I think these guys might take issue with that.

Well, it's not that simple. As I recall, Fiat only owns a controlling interest.

Well, sort of. Chrysler isn't publicly traded. They still want to make money and they still have shareholders, sort of, but because they're an LLC it's a bit different. Right now they're still working on simpler terms: sell cars, don't die. Shareholder profits will come later. Heck, even Ford just paid its first…

Yes, damn those political parties who were the CEOs of GM and Chrysler and ran them into the ground just to kill off the unions, then got elected to Washington, and passed the first bailout to save them! Cunning plan! Pass me a tinfoil hat.

The question is simply how far you read into it. If you take the commercial purely at its words and those alone, then you're correct - there's nothing inherent to the commercial that takes any political position at all.

So does reading. You should give it a try.

WTF? A four-door M3? Whyyyyy? The only thing I can guess is that this BMW asshat surveyed the landscape and, having already conquered handicapped spaces, taking up multiple spaces, and recently electric-only spaces, he figured that The General Lee was the only thing left on which a BMW hadn't left its indelible…

So, why did he change his mind? If it wasn't for the money, then why did he agree to do a spot for something that is totally against his personal views? Certainly Eastwood doesn't need any additional notoriety, so surely that isn't it. See if yall can get a hold of him or his publicist and make some sense of this,…

That idea is entirely asinine. Jalopnik has already covered the obvious solution to the problem of most drivers who actually think driving gets in the way of whatever else they want to do.

It's cool. It's RWD. It's manual. It's... an Alfa. Hmm. It's that last bit. The price is nice, but I wouldn't buy without some reserve in the bank account and a tow truck on speed dial.

Fur from a dead coon's balls... I lol'd.

They've corrected it, ace.

Even with a roll cage, the roof collapsed that much in just one roll? Now that is scary.