We have expensive premium sedans. Why can’t we have expensive premium hatchbacks.    Just because Americans associate hatchbacks with entry level, doesn’t make it an absolute.   

Over 200 horsepower per liter is an achievement for any production car. Mercedes can rightfully charge whatever they want for this engineering marvel. 

Not quite as bad as leaping over the net and nutting on your opponent. But close.

The interior on the new A class is worth it alone, this thing looks like the tits.

Just delete wing and enjoy.

1) to some (many?) people a Merc badge is worth a good bit more money than a VW one

Steam says I have nearly 300 hours of my life sunk into cities.

A few years back I had a month to kill before starting a new job. Being mayor/builder of my city in Skylines literally became my full-time occupation. My gf almost left me - understandable.

I absolutely hate this segment generally, but kind of like the Lambo because it’s so ridiculous. They are all over here in the OC, but I do drive past the dealer multiple times a day.

Wasn’t that the whole point?

Saw a lime green one in Hollywood a few weeks ago. Definitely a great looking SUV, much better looking than the Bentley or Rolls, and more distinctive than the Porsche. 

Exactly. Which is why, for that million, you can still fit in a Renault 11 TXE whose talking dashboard sounds like a downtrodden Marvin the Paranoid Android.

You still think in numbers like a pleb.  The only thing a potential customer worries about is if the car “speaks” to you.

The “I’m old-fashioned, let them race” attitude is a ridiculously rose-tinted view of the past that ignores decades of tragedies that prompted these rules to be added in the first place.

These rules exist because drivers like Schumacher Would cause crashes of their opponents, even if it disabled their own cars, as long as it was to their advantage. It is one of the side effects of safer cars - you can make a crash happen with little risk to yourself. The rules try to account for this but it leads to…

Yeah how can someone be against penalties for unsafe release? Hey maybe if you can "accidentally" hit am opponent's pit crew on the way out they'll be too distracted to take care of their driver's stop! What a strategy!

Mate, the unsafe release too? C’mon now, we’re getting a little carried away. I agree with the general sentiment, but we have to have some consideration for safety or we’re going to start killing drivers again.

It was my understanding the 3 hour delay had more to do with stewards waiting for drivers/teams to finish media responsibilities and all that jazz, but then again, they managed to hammer Vettel in Canada pretty fucking quickly so who knows?

As a rule, you don't get better decisions by rushing them.

It’s bad enough that too many of the Deadspin writers have that “Forget the rules, how I feel during the event is more important” attitude. Please don’t let that get rooted here. If a rule is broken, issue the penalty. Don’t like the rule? Champion for it to get removed next season.