Exactly. EasyJet Vienna to Lyon is $36. Train is like $350 starting but it’s an 11 hour trip. $36 flights are almost disturbingly cheap but after 2 hours I will either be dead or in France.

Flights are way cheaper. The flight to Lyon from Vienna is 1:50 and cost $36. Trains are fun but slow and expensive (we are taking one from Munich to Vienna because-trains!) but to get back to Lyon is like 11 hours and hundreds of dollars.

Interesting. I am going through this now. Need to drive from Lyon to Paris in October and want something interesting. I am leaning toward a Peugeot just because I have a Peugeot bicycle. Doesn’t have to be luxe, doesn’t have to be fast, but should be interesting.

Check out Wikipedia for a photo of that engine. It’s truly gorgeous.

Does platform sharing make a manual cheaper? I.e. can BMW and Toyota share the expense and make it more cost-effective to produce and federalize? That would seem to make sense-if 10% of Supras were manual (I know the number is 0%) and 15% of Z4s were manuals would the cost equation improve for both? Instead of making…

Turbo Dust. 

A BMW 330i of that era put out 230 HP.  Granted, not as torquey but that is 10 HP per turbo. 

I paid $20k for my 2009 135i @34k miles a few years ago (now worth $14k!) so a couple grand more for a truly unique 12 cylinder sporty Mercedes? Doesn’t seem too bad and does this thing truly depreciate from here?

“maybe drives like a piece of farm equipment with good suspension. ”

Oh shit! You’re saying that when my friend Brian’s mom got a T-Bird Super Coupe and we thought we were all being bad-asses tearing it up over the roads of West Texas late at night it only had TWO HUNDRED AND TEN horsepower?

Nah. This site could be called Blaine-opnik and we wouldn’t notice. It would just be normal. 

Eh buy my ZJ. Two ecu in two months, so that counts for something right?

All the failures and the non-MG of this just makes me sad. 

Here’s the 10th amendment:

I have been turned down by the host every time I have tried to use it. Is that common? I am a self-entitled middle aged white guy—I am not used to rejection!

In Texas as part of your high school exit exams you had to write an essay. I wrote mine about how Alice Cooper inspired faster driving. Hey, I passed!

Not that anyone should care, but I love this so much. 

I agree. Stoked about the bronco and miss the Blazer.

And this in INDIA not America, small roni. It’s a quirk in India that their cities like to compete against one another in sporting events.

Sunrisers is an awesome cricket team name (though not as awesome as the Mumbai Indians). What would be a great name for a race team? Maybe the Hyderabad Sunsetters. I am so stoked.