Man, I'm normally first in line when it comes to getting rid of regulations, but I can't get myself too excited about front license plates (They don't look awesome, but the complaint about aero is silly. I'll take that back if anyone comes up with a way to actually measure the difference without the use of a wind…

You are right, emergencies are a part of life. You should prepare for them, both by keeping an emergency savings account, and by having a vehicle that is ready to go in the event of an emergency.

Agreed. For most people I can think of, one ICE and one electric car makes a great deal of sense.

Not every few months, but sometime during the time you expect to own the vehicle. This need not be a repeating problem to be serious, a single incident is pretty disastrous.

Sure, you could do that, but its a package deal.

When my wife was pregnant, I made it a point to keep at least half a tank of gas in the car at all times. Her preferred hospital is 50 miles away, and should anything unplanned happened, I did not want to spend an extra 10 minutes fueling up.

Isn't it a tad premature to declare this inferior to a car no one has ever seen or driven yet? What do we really know about the model 3?

There is a possibility that performance cars will go electric before they manage to fully convert to forced induction.

It might be a tad late, but I feel most submissions fall into one of 2 categories that shouldn't really count, at least in my opinion.

This is a fairly typical needle movement

Agreed, screens are awesome in their flexibility. So if you need a flexible display that can be switched between different modes to display a ton of information, a digital screen is the way to go.

But that the thing, an lcd screen has a whole bunch of tiny crystals, surrounded by little bitty individual heaters, all encapsulated in layers of polarizes, epoxy and glass. It's not that dissimilar to a huge array of light bulbs.

Light bulbs have no moving parts...

Had no idea there were non DI diesels out there. Learn something new every day

Huh, I heard the opposite version, that carbon buildup was mostly not a problem, until DI became popular. Of course, everything is opposite in BMW land.

Something isn't right here. The whole point of a direct injection system is that there is no fuel in the intake tract. The fuel is injected directly inside the cylinder, right by the spark plug. The top side of the valves never see any fuel (good or bad, sticky or slick). The carbon comes from the oil that gets into…

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an LCD screen (and its driving circuitry) is much more complex than a needle. True, screens are cheap (which obscures just how fantastically complicated they are), but so are needles.

The reasons seem to depend on who is giving them, but cars keep getting heavier. I'm always amused to see that the old, heavy, muscle cars of the 60's can be rather light by today's standards.

Isn't vtec a mechanical system?