Most MT cars made in the last 10 years are also push button. I suppose the S2k was an early implementation of push to start with a manual?

How does this sequence differ from any other car with a manual transmission? I guess it has an ignition lockout that requires the transmission to be in neutral? Pretty much every modern manual car at least requires the clutch to be in.

I’ve played power wash simulator enough times to know how easy this is.

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi, but a bankrupt Nazi is a good start.

Is there any hard data on your final point? I don’t see how shifting from reverse to drive while rolling backwards at 1 MPH is any worse than putting your foot down aggressively from a stop. In both instances, isn’t the torque converter doing the job of slipping the transmission until the vehicle speed catches up with…

So much wrong in this article. You wrote an article about the successor W211 E55 AMG while the car in the pictures is 2002 model year, so it is W210 chasis. It does have 5.4 liter V8 but it does not have a supercharger like the W211 E55 . It makes 354hp not 469hp.

The 2002 E55 did not have a supercharged V8 making 469 hp. It had a normally aspirated V8 making 379 hp. That’s a pretty big mistake for an auto enthusiast site that a simple google search would have fixed.

In my defense, Apple Maps told me it was a road!

Chicago winters did a number on me when I was in college.

Europe’s taxing models for consumer vehicles would have saved us from the huge suv and truck onslaught.   Those vehicles would simply be unaffordable to own.  

Have you seen some of the shitty tiny low res screens on fleet vehicles that technically provide a backup camera view? They could absolutely still put those in in the cheap.

Two issues with this in the US:

1] reversing cameras are required. Therefore a built-in screen is required.
2] last I looked, lawmakers were in the process of demanding that cars came standard with AM radio.

I mean... I *guess* you could have a built-in screen that handles the camera, the AM radio, and whatever vehicle…

The Passport has better acceleration, better braking distance, and better handling on the road, and it will make it to any trailhead no problem. If you need/want more off-road capability than that, then, yes, it wouldn’t make sense to choose this over the 4Runner.

I don’t know, my GTI switchblade key opens probably 20% of the time in my pocket.  I concur, it is annoying.  But it’s also a very satisfying feature to open and close repeatedly, so I guess the tradeoff is worth it.

Which is probably why Tesla won’t take it as a trade in; they know there’s at least some expensive damage hiding under that wrap, but not how much. There’s also a chance that they made an offer low enough to cover the uncertainty, but this guy thinks he’s owed full msrp.

I’m going to tend to agree. I own both a Fiat 500 with switchblade key (as pictured in the article and a Pontiac G8 with switchblade key (of which I’ve purposely avoided the ‘recall’ because they replace it with a non-flip key). The Fiat’s simply has more surface area for the button itself, though the Pontiac’s is…

I’m going to squarely lay the blame of your complaint on the absolute shit quality switchblade key (and everything else they produce) from Fiat.

Still better than Clippy.

More importantly, you can get factory white wheels!!