“Sorry, officer. I’m perfectly sober. I just swerved to avoid hitting the three-foot-long glowing dick in front of my car.”

Free Starbucks for the first guy to hack it to project porn.

>Except in this car, which (for reasons I have never been able to figure out), required you, upon shutting off the engine, to reach down below the steering column and press a hidden button before you could take the keys out of the ignition. I cannot tell you how many times I lent that car to somebody, only for them…

Ok, now let me let you in on a super secret secret....

Anecdotal evidence suggests this is a feature removed from later models, but E30s also have turn signals.

The hyperbolic character of his assessment leads me to wonder how long he’s been familiar with mechanical engineering

Calgary - even the accountants are badasses.

Feel no shame David Tracy, if loving cheap little cars is wrong I don’t want to be right.

In the most overly-complicated, most delicate and least-serviceable way Germany’s finest engineers could make it.

But ‘peak’ is all relative, isn’t it? I mean mine never really goes over a quarter tank.

Hey, bud, that iron lump now even has aluminum heads! :-). Not to mention that dressed-for-dressed, an LS1 may even be lighter than smaller displacement 6's and 8's.

Excellent points. Horses-for-courses still applies, so I would add that the S2000, which was a benchmark high-specific output engine for the era, could go to / but also kind of needed 9k RPM! It was not a particularly pleasant sounding device at those speeds (not just my opinion, but others may feel differently...). …

Get an E550 coupe now, they can be had for under $25K. I’ve had mine for three years now. 382hp NA V8, a button to switch between Bruce Wayne and The Bat mode, and you look like a Latin American dictator in exile driving the thing. Bring lots of gas money.

The fact that they even still make an S class coupe is an exercise in badassery.

Also, “Oh, I like the last year models when they finally got the fastback and the V6.”

I had an ‘88 Formula and......it did catch fire.. It turned out to just be some coolant that had saturated a damaged steel/fiber/steel-sandwich exhaust heat shield and then dried and cooked (who knew that crap burned?), and I just happened to have the rood (?) open when it started, so no big damage.... but still.…

When I had my Fiero, the comments were either:

It wasn’t “rude,” more funny... but I had someone tell me that my Fiero looked great and that it had been a long time since he saw one that wasn’t rusted out.

Rotors warping is generally a myth.