Perhaps you don’t realize that I agree with you. The US automakers were, by cost structure and culture, not able to adapt with the nimbleness of the foreign manufacturers. The labor and pension cost obligations that were imposed on them by the UAW were a significant piece. There are other reasons, too, and yes,…

Huh. Didn’t realize i8's had become that cheap. That’s used Audi R8 4.2 money. Hmmmmmmmm...

Yeah, the Volvo Wagon blipshift shirt was the best part of this video.

I know a fair number of these owners, and they mostly are not posers. They want a “nice car,” and they feel like the base models are fast enough for their nervous system. It’s modesty, in a way, not buying any more car than they think they really need.

I don’t disagree with you as to priorities, but the sales declines and layoffs did in fact happen. The history is clear that the regulations put U.S. automakers at a competitive disadvantage. The result was the long-term loss of market share to Japanese, and to a lesser extent, European automakers.

Hm. Rumor seems to be that this is a $450k car, which probably means $500k once you add options. 

That’s a good problem to have, all things considered.

The dude pretty clearly had traction control either off or in Corse, and I’m guessing off entirely based on the yaw rate. Why the hell would you turn it off in a 700-horsepower car, on a public road, in the rain?

For much of that sequence, it is, in fact, a real safe. They put it on Delrin skids to make it slide around.

I think you mean the Pink Elephant. And my guess is they’d be a little more into GT350s and ZL1s over there, versus the McLaren-and-GT3 girls that you find at the Rhino. But I could totally be wrong about that.

Well, I’ve been doing wheel to wheel racing for about 15 years, and if I die doing it, please do say “he died doing what he loved.” Because I know damn well, every time I click into the 6-point harness, that there is a small, but non-zero chance that I will die doing it.

Come to think of it, if there isn’t already an Airplane-style parody of F&F, then there really should be.

This is, without exaggeration, the worst take on Jalopnik since Alanis King threw shade at pizza.

Right now the S-Class color palette is basically six shades of black with different very, very slight color tints, plus four variations on silver/grey. And then white and sparkly white. They know damn well that sparkly white is the best of all these stupid, unimaginative options, because they charge like $4k extra for…

Oh yo ho, my friend! That stunt with the Chargers pulling a safe was filmed practically. It’s not CG. They really did pull a gigantic-ass safe with two Hemi Chargers.

It’s definitely the Eclipse.

My entertainment bone: Let me show you it.

This is good advice. I suspect it will not be taken.

My experience is that prostitutes usually have some strong opinions about what kind of car you should drive if you have six-figure money to spend. They can give surprisingly informed advice about these things.

If they had designed the DBX specifically for men, it would have an Aston Martin logo Fleshlight mounted just underneath the steering wheel.