It has an ML113 5.4 V8 swapped over from an ML55 AMG + a pretty good tune. The badging was a small nod to the custom nature of the car, with nothing else (well, besides the exhaust note) to give away the secret under the hood.

I’ll give you the exterior styling, as it’s definitely not for everyone (to put it nicely). That said, you couldn’t be more wrong about the interior. There’s nothing cheap about it. I’d confidently put this against just about any other interior from that time period. 

That it is. I can’t speak on the diesel engine, but I’ll regularly average 26mpg over a couple hundred miles of mixed driving.

The R-class is a wonderful rig, but truly a shame that particular one has the worst interior color. The grey is just... Awful.

Rory, is this what you want Jalopnik to be? I know that there are still some very talented writers here, who are passionate about the automotive world. It would be nice to see more of them, and less of... This. I don’t like responding to hate with more hate, but if I came across Jalopnik as a new reader and read a…

If someone slapped an MT09 badge on this, would your average rider still think it was a Ducati?

It's great to see you writing here! I hope your articles continue getting shared to oppo! 

Definitely the most common single brand at this point across the greater Seattle area as well. 

For what it's worth, the jabras seal so well that they passively cancel out more noise than many wireless buds with active noise canceling do. I can't speak for the Sony ones you're talking about, but the jabras definitely have much better noise-canceling ability than what Apple and Bose have offered. 

If that was true then don’t you think it would have happened by now? What company wouldn’t want to have their cake and eat it too? If Honda unveiled a 2021 non-hybrid (ie standard price for a mid-size sedan) Civic that got 50mpg suddenly all of it’s competition would be irrelevant for the vast majority of buyers.

1st and foremost, safety. Believe me, as a Miata driver I’m firmly in the “drive defensively” camp and I don’t like the over-reliance on safety features at the expense of driver engagement. But paying attention and avoiding crashes is far from foolproof. Compare crashes with modern cars to ours.... That’s worth the…

Kind of apples to oranges, no?

I think the idea is less to brag, and more to inform. Merging responsible spending habits and rewards programs is the perfect example of having your cake and eating it too. Good spending habits with debit/cash will always be inferior to the same with lucrative credit card programs.

Sticking a Gopro in the glovebox was a poor choice, as my broken soft top can attest to.

All other generations got numerous special edition colors. Hopefully we'll start to see that with the ND

Apply for a writing gig at The Onion already

Come say hi on Oppo sometime. You'd fit right in 

I guess I started rambling pretty hard, but what I meant by that is that the model 3 is actually surprisingly fun to drive. It feels very fast, handles well (and this wasn’t a performance version) and at no point feels bloated, either in the super minimalistic interior or with the overall car itself, despite the hefty…

Unfortunately the Bolt fell victim to the same thing that every other electric and hybrid did prior to Tesla coming into the market.

Here’s the video I save for rainy days. Enjoy.