It’s a weird car. Big, heavy; goes where you point it, but grudgingly. The engine has torque everywhere, but it’s not particularly exciting. It burbles musically, but not at all like a Ferrari. It’s very much just two BMW i6es working as a team. The engine note at 130kph is very present, but silent at 80kph. Seems…

Hmmm... Maryland tags (without the required tag registration / expiration stickers) being sold in NYC.

Bill Lear, of Lear Jet fame, helped develop the first car radio, Motorola, and the 8 track tape

How Henry Ford wasn’t just truly anti-Semite, but he even got an award from Hitler only one year before World War II began:

About 2/3rds of all Rolls Royce cars ever produced are still in road worthy conditions. Little difficult to say “on the road” since I assume many are now museum pieces. Still rather impressive for a 100+ year old car company, even if they haven’t made many cars.

You are indeed seeing it right. No driver door, and the passenger entrance at the front was removed.

Am I seeing it right that there is only the one door, and it’s in the middle?

I dunno if I find this out of character, for the era at least. Just anecdotally. I can’t make an evidence-based statement, but I feel like the era of the land yachts of the 50s and 60s were typified by making larger and heavier vehicles as a point of pride because heavy meant sturdy and reliable. It feels like the ad…

18 was very good too. Most of the best selling cars at the time were getting anywhere from 9 to 15 mpg. 

Any time I’m driving between Midland and Odessa, TX I wonder how in the fuck anyone can stand living there because of the smell of the petrochemical industry.

I use them about once a week at my shop on either disabled cars, locked up steering for one reason or another, or vehicles stuck in park.

Also useful for moving your booted car into the garage if you’re in a dispute with your HOA and their parking contractor. (Might be too obscure of a reference.)

Wow those are some great updates! Thanks for the link!

AMC had some racing chops. They won their very first attempt at the Nürburgring 24 hours with the Spirit AMXs. The cars had shitty brakes and poor front suspension and still managed to take 1st and second in their class.

That, like the 3.0 CSL, is a BMW I would actually be proud to own (and all done with no stinking e-ink).

This is the best version!

They COULD, they just don’t want to (and that isn’t what the average person wants to buy, which is a much bigger problem). And the engineering to get pillars that thin would be VERY expensive. I’d pay it.

I remember loving how raw the engines sounded and click clack of the shifting. But yeah, the cars were a handful to drive. I would LOVE to see a remake of it.

The E24 was perhaps the prettiest BMW ever made.