I love your reviews, and this is probably one of the best. Kudos...

I do transmissions for a living, and I think that there are two classes of answers: results and market acceptance. I have no issue adding gears until a point of diminishing returns is reached; weight, cost, packaging and performance with ultimately cap the number of discrete gears on transmissions based on today’s…

I was there as well, and I was thinking that this was the biggest debacle since Indy 2005.

I’ve been a fan of F1 for almost 40 years, and this is angriest that I’ve ever been at the sport. I despise the fact that the racing has become a game of tire and fuel management to the largest extent in the modern era...and now this.

Kudos on fitting an American Gothic horror story intro a car review, with bonus points on the use of “abattoir”.

Help me out here: we’re criticizing Rowling for doing a poor job of relating American history to pure fantasy bullshit? One look her books will provide all the evidence needed to confirm that she isn’t a genius, and it’s easy to see that she doesn’t understand historical nuance, but what’s the point to getting…

Get one of these:

“HD trucks” are (presumably) emitting whatever they’re emitting legally...and have you Googled “VW Scandal”? I wasn’t exaggerating...

And I understand that you might not agree with me. This is, in the overall scheme of things, super-trivial but I would like Máté to understand that there are more than two kinds of enthusiasts out there. I wouldn’t have made this comment if I didn’t think that Máté honestly thinks this way.

Read Máté’s previous comments...this isn’t a joke, it’s a rant and has been for a while.

Yes, I did. There are more owner constituencies that “hardcore” and “old”, and that’s my point. I am a trackday enthusiast, but still like to drive sequentials on the street.

And even more annoying when people make the same insult dozens of times. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck...

I get the love for conventional manuals, and prefer them to planetary-step automatics. But not everyone that likes sequential gearbox transmissions are “old farts who like cars with stripes but are also too lazy to even shift themselves, argle bargle, argle bargle”. This is getting more than a little tedious Máté...

The only thing that these were good for, even new, was to turn in a drag car. I’m sure there’s enough tubbed-and-tubed chassis available to last until the heat-death of the universe.

I would argue that good automatics are perfect for large GTs such as this. Choices are nice, but this cries smooth sportiness...

“Refining”: because Mercedes has no R&D or motorsport capability...

Whoops...missed that. The sad thing is that I’m half Canadian and should have caught that. Mea culpa...

I used to autocross a first-gen; they’re lots of fun to drive. The miles on this are pretty high, but $1,900 USD isn’t a lot to spend for a toy like this. NP...

Great post...

You’re correct in that it is generally a poor idea to give unsolicited advice of any kind; I agree completely.