@facelvega: Brilliant. Just brilliant.

I'd like to see how the front wheelbase extension was achieved, because I doubt anyone involved in the Zimmer project was drug tested.

@whoosh: Am I missing something? I did my own oil changes on an E30 with an M20 for over a dozen years, and I could swear that the oil filter simply threads onto the side of the block.

@zekestone: I think the US manufacturers need their fantasy prices so that they can justify their programs based on profitability being reached at some optimistic sales volume. If they admit up front that they're going to lose money on every car no matter how many they sell, they'd have to concede that they're…

@whitehatspecial: It wasn't until I saw my second new 7 that I started to accept they came that way from the factory. I thought that the tacky bastard who bought the first one to blight my environment had glued on some bling to 'complement' their 24" rims.

@b33g33: Everyone involved in that cutline reaching production should be forced to seek other work.

@jark: It looks like a Lexus or Hyundai from the rear three quarter view. The front is still more of an affront, and the chrome doohickeys bridging the front door cutline are the tackiest things ever put on a production car, but the back does look generic at least!

Anything GM built since the bailout

@tonyola: BMW had forgotten how to put cars together by 1998, and the E36 was one big misguided experiment in building a car out of self-recycling , frangible garbage. The E30 was the pinnacle of BMW, a level of all around automotive greatness that they don't look likely to ever get near again.

Robert Downey Jr., slumming? Wouldn't that involve crack pipes and balls on his chin?

BMW? Isn't that the company chasing ever dumber customers by selling cars that can't be waxed?

Copying the Corvette's interior is like copying the 911's engine placement.

@awwwcrap: There are people who are smart enough to foresee folly, and then there is the majority. Bad things would never happen without you.

@Baby Beater Benz: Not so much in the case of the three stripes that cross practically the entire lane. When I lived in Charlottesville, there was a UVA sports inspired 'paint the town orange' campaign that involved painting giant Vs on the road in random locations. Motorcyclists howled, after crashing.

@Dirt Pirate: It is marked with painted stipes which you stay between. Painting on the travel lane itself is not helpful.

@cobrajoe: I had just turned 16 and was driving with my parents in the car from Chicago to Madison, which probably violated the rental agreement even back then. I drove it as I thought they wanted me to, because I wanted to drive more than they wanted me to drive. Maybe it would have been better with a heavy foot, but…

I don't play video games, but I do ride my bicycle most days. Raindrops on paint are deadly for cyclists, and for motorcyclists. Someone should beat some sense into this vandal.

@cobrajoe: It wasn't a matter of shifting at high rpm. It was a matter of what felt like forced upshifts at low rpm followed by a clunk and the death of acceleration as the car entered the hugely taller next gear at too low rpm. All done in the name of fuel efficiency on an arbitrary test, and no doubt resulting in…

@cobrajoe: She bought the '87 Porsche in summer of '86. The '85 Dodge turbo had already soured us on forced induction. A friend of mine's step-father bought two Topazes for he and his wife. They were pretty frangible and nobody took his car buying advice after that. Naturally aspirated K-cars often accumulated…

@cobrajoe: My mother's car at the time she was shopping was a 1979 Plymouth Horizon. The bar wasn't very high, but the Chrysler Torqueflite automatics were always flawless in our many Mopars. The 1985 Dodge Lancer ES Turbo undid 54 years of family loyalty to the five pointed star.