When the Germans do it, it’s “engineering brilliance”. When Americans do it, it’s a “cluster fuck”. Because let’s be honest here: if the car was an M3, the comments section would be filled with people proclaiming BMW as geniuses for doing it.

For some reason this reminded me of this Subaru ad. Just replace Forester with Outback and 350Z with any of those trucks that failed to climb.

Have you tried google. There are definitely some videos there.

Because you didn’t look? I google’d “silver lake test hill subaru” and found everything from Outbacks to WRXs climbing it.

Same thing I told my wife on our wedding night.

It’s trickle-down car-conomics. A large portion of Wranglers and a surprising percentage of Raptors will be used and properly abused - just not by their first owners. We need the poseurs to peacock it up so that someone, someday, can buy the purpose built vehicle at a price point where they don’t feel bad using it…

I’m sure the car had zero damage and will continue to be running 100% after this little trek.

Just buy a used S4 with a stick, 4 doors and easily, reliably tune-able to 400 hp.

So purty.

So I’m well aware that Ford borrowed from LR’s forthcoming design language for the Explorer before they sold off the company. That said, the new Discovery still looks like a pre-facelift Explorer that got punched in the lip.

You, sir, are driving one of my dream cars.

Turbo AWD wagon with a stick...

If he is around 6' tall and around 240 lbs, the z3 coupe is not going to be fun to get in and out of and will be a tight fit. I am about that size and my roadster is very snug and not something I would want to daily. I drive a 540i wagon as a daily and it is perfect for the task. Roomy enough (could be a bit bigger,…

C5 ZO6 Vette.

Volvo V70R.

Equal concern certainly. The B-52 fleet is hitting 50 years old and we want them flying another 50 YEARS!!!! arguable the best military aircraft ever..... That and a-10.... And f-14....

No worries, they depreciate down to reality in less than a year.

Still can’t get over the $77,000 price tag. Car barely has a backseat! I’d rather go with a Corvette or Grand Sport at that price if I wanted to stay in the GM realm.

I don’t think it would be any more or less reliable than having it come from VW.

By that same token, look at the current Duramax. That’s an in house GM engine IIRC, and it is more than capable of blending in to the background and just being “an engine.”