>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

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.…

And like that, all comments she makes about music are suddenly irrelevant.

Thanks buddy. Still, it’s one thing to know you’re making responsible decisions on an intellectual level but there’s always part of you that’s saying “is it too much to ask for a car with freaking cruise control?”

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.

Wow, idiots.

Rotors warping is generally a myth.