Fellow E46 driver, also looking for somebody who carries oil. Success!

That’s not far from the price I was seeing for these in 2017-2018 when I was in the market. Ended up with a 330i sedan standard, but I did think about those wagons. This an easy NP in the current market, and 185k isn’t that painful. Obviously mechanical work to be expected, but E46s have exploded in value…

That I understand, and with the price-per-unit of each car so high I understand how this racks up, but what surprised me more was that anything would need to be detuned for the U.S., or modified to make things safer. I’d think EU standards would generally be tighter than North American ones.

I don’t really understand how U.S. regulations could be so expensive here. Aren’t the vast majority of our rules regarding both emissions and crashworthiness less stringent, not more, than similar E.U. policy? Or is it a distinction between voluntary Euro NCAP vs. mandatory NTSB policy?

Cracks me up that the budget for article photos clearly got slashed (I get it, stock images are expensive) and so now we constantly get these incredibly out-of-date pictures for articles. Kind of nostalgic – I was going to guess that photo was from 2008 or 2009, but that’s a movie poster for a 2004 movie. In a few…

“in one simple list”

Good. She should be in jail for an incredibly long time. Why is somebody with 13 previous car crashes allowed anywhere near a motor vehicle? You should have scooter privileges only after multiple documented self-caused wrecks.

Main takeaway here is that, with the West Side Highway lights timed for traffic moving at ~35mph, you can drive as fast as you want between intersections on that side of town and it saves you zero time. He could have cruised at 35, like that mesmerizing video of the guy making every timed traffic light in a row down…

My twenty-one year-old car feeling more appealingly analog by the day.

Man, how old is that stock photo? Haven’t seen that Delta logo in a while...

Eh, I think yes and no. Uber has been singularly unconcerned with following any existing worker-protection regulations in any city or country where they’ve moved to operate, flagrantly violating the law in an almost every market they’ve entered. The leak only reaffirms that the executive team was aware of this the…

Not to beat the same dead horse, but this article is basically unreadable as a slideshow. Anyway, these things are hideous and Bad.

What exactly do you think a strawman is? 

I agree they’re not, and I do think they’re going to get slowly crowded out as all the major companies tool up and begin to dominate the market (not to mention with better quality control, etc.), but still, for the time being, most Americans think EV and think Tesla.

Being pro-labor is good, and moral, and I’m all with him there. I just think you sometimes have to embrace uncomfortable partnerships on this kind of stuff. If VW has union workers but gives us Dieselgate, and Tesla’s non-union but leads to widespread EV adoption, what’s the calculus there, you know?

Sorry, I’m a dyed-in-the-wool lefty, but this notion that it’s productive for the admin to pick a petty fight with the largest producer of EVs is ridiculous. It makes people feel better on Twitter, maybe, but it’s not useful – and by the way, tons of major companies the admin does support and do business with do…

Once Elon Musk slowly figures out that his worst enemies down the line, for a number of reasons, are actually Republicans, he’s really going to be in for it. But that would require paying attention to the world at large, not just Twitter. And, for what it’s worth, the current admin’s constant slighting of him remains…

Sort of weird of the FDNY guy to say it’s been 20 years that they’ve used the E2QB. Maybe that was the first time they ordered it. Up until pretty recently, at least the mid- to late-2010s, the majority of trucks were using PA300 sirens. The last of those was probably retired about 3-4 years ago but they still runs as…

Came here for E46 window problems, found E46 window problems, satisfied immediately.

Slightly struggling to make this one out. Did he collide hard with the median on the first lefthand spin? If not, why did he bee-line for the median after (seemingly) recovering the spin in the middle of the road? It looked like he had control, unless the alignment was already in tatters...