There’s nothing cooler at the gas station than feeding the tanks from two different pumps!

On the other side, especially on the E39, it was possible to “unlock” certain options. After some fiddling with the right tools, my 525d suddenly had a pre-/parking heating and ventilation and voice control. Admittedly this applies only to certain models and certain options.

Whoa, if CIA, FBI and NSA warn me about someone spying on me with my smartphone, I’ll better be concerned, right?

I’m actually sure that this is the still unfilled niche in the automobile market:

This is a happy Finnish family, because their Volga M-21 ist “the largest of his class”.

Yeah, I’m quite sure that’s the answer. You basically alter the sensor’s rain tolerance and it wipes more or less often.

Sorry, I can’t hear you over the generic Biker-style rock music!

In my opinion the new name ist idiotic. “Oh, a new Coke Zero. Hm, it’s called Coke Zero Sugar ... that means, it’s WITH sugar, right?”

It really looks great ... and a lot of eye-candy for us jalopniks. But, as I already commented after the first trailer: some of the cars are horribly anachronistic.

My late grandfather was a master in this. He used to come forward, shake hands and say: “Ah, Mr *Grmblbrmblahem*! So good to see you here!” even if he didn’t know the person and everyone thought “What a nice and considerate fella!”

Damn, get your facts together!

A certain ... person ... in our office managed it the other way round. After three years of heavy coffee drinking we finally got him to buy coffee, too. And what did he do? He bought ground coffee and poured it directly into the grinder of our office espresso machine...
Unfortunately, a colleague stopped him from…

My husband has no idea what to do unless given very specific instructions [...].

Definitely less than the whole fake vent honeycomb area surrounding it.

What is a “phone book”?

As an European, I’m amazed that a lot of Americans oppose a general healthcare insurance as “socialistic” and at the same time without blinking accept things like HOA or municipal laws on lawn care (lawn care!).

This is not per se a matter of “OEM or not”, the decibles do count for all (italian car makers exempt). The OEMs just have the money and manpower to figure out where the loopholes in the regulations are. Simplified, you are allowed to be loud “x” decibels at “y” rpm in “z” gear. As an OEM it is relatively easy to…

As a German, I’d like to add that both the dog- and the cookie-ad are horribly overdubbed. Perhaps the original voices weren’t assholey enough...

Yeah, that’s a real bummer. I’m one year into my first ‘Burb (GMT800, though) and I’m irreversibly in love with the immense space to lug things around.

Just like this classic promo pic of the gorgeous E28 M5. The car must have been driven backwards into the pristine snow. OK. But wait! There is no driver inside but there are also no footprints leading away, meaning the driver has to be ducking very low...