I thought the same thing. Test driving newer Porsches, I hit the button often on accident.

I have always thought the rule was never a rear window down without a front window. Plus, I do not lower windows all the way. So a vent amount for front windows equal to rear windows. 

Make sure you get t-shirts made at that big print shop on the internet, but only if they use Hane’s or Nike shirts. 

Here, the lack of any effort to orient the stack toward the driver causes me the most distress over the design.  It looks like they took added effort to make sure it was shrouded to not distract the driver.

Except at Lexus, they usually come at a cost for what makes a Lexus a Lexus.

I think someone is feeling a little self-conscious about that new lease on an S450 AMG Line with the carbon fiber look mirror caps and the dealer-installed 21” AMG-design wheels. De-badged, of course, like the Europeans do it. 

Daewoo Leganza? Wow. I have a very weird soft spot for those. When they launched in the U.S., I drove a couple hours to test drive one

I was going to say, only if the windows are closed, but then I remembered yesterday’s post about the secret flaps under the bumper that vent the car. So that is the reason we don’t die in closed vehicles with the fan on - it is not really closed off. 

Probably because it is not a luxury car, and luxury car buyers tend to notice more of the differences. 

Six years old is the old body style. Of course they are cheap. The newer body style is completely different. 

I’m with you. I bought a 2007 in 2011 that would have been over $60k new, for less than a third of its original price, with a CPO warranty (BMW so it covered maintenance too) through 100k miles. I bought the car with 69k miles. Definitely okay to buy with more than 2 years and 20k miles, but be smart. 

I thought that was a lease? My bad. I just thought that was how Land Rover did leases.

Except these covers will not protect for long, will result in scratches of a different kind, and cause aerodynamic changes.

I’m wondering what the aero engineer thinks about these being left on. Any complaints of it “not runnin’ like it should”. 

Wow! Someone is trying to sell packing materials as OEM parts. I think the person has no clue these were contractually supposed to be removed by the dealer pre-delivery.

I do. Just because I buy luxury cars (why you keep using quotes is unknown), does not mean I lose interest in all the other things. Seems you think anything newer with an automatic is a “luxury” car. In traffic, the manual is a lot more work. When it comes to maintenance, manual transmissions have more routine…

The problem I have with this tortious interference argument is that Mecum has a contract with the 2nd owner, not the 1st buyer that purchased with the no-resale terms.

Sounds to me that they might have set the shift strategy and features for what an actual customer might drive like - less efficiently and with the auto-start/-stop disabled.

Sadly, within the last week I suddenly started to really like how the X6 looks. 

No worries.  I was just wrong.  I should know better than to speak on subjects that His Stigness chooses to speak.