My family had a 1969 280SL for 15 years and I would have described the transmission as anything but “smooth” - the shifts were always pretty jerky. But it was a timeless design that got admiring glances right into the mid 80s when they sold it.

If you didn’t get on a freeway you probaby didn’t notice it 00 but 70 mph…

I appreciate that this is one step towards zero emissions and ultimately saving us from a 2-5 degree warming hell, but this is flawed for so many reasons. Let’s talk about a few of them:

1. This is an absolutely terrible waste of resources. To power all these cars requires tons of batteries, therefore tons of lithium,…

It just depends on their definition of “zero emissions” in the mandate. Does a hybrid or PHEV count since they are able to run electric only during parts of their duty cycle?

So if a “normal” person rear ends me in my 765LT, I should be out the $100k that it would cost me to fix it? And not be compensated for the months that it would take to get parts? All because someone else rear ended me? That’s not fair. Whoever is at fault in an accident should be responsible for the damages IMO.

Pfft… give the pipes better driving training? That’s socialism 

Uh-huh, you wait till a real recession happens and people who were barely handling their car payments find themselves out of job and can’t make them. Given how there’s way too much money tied up in car loans now, it could well cause a depression to the economy as the car loan house o’ cards comes tumbling down from…

Its laudable - but laughable. Not because we shouldn’t shoot for the moon, but we aren’t able to meet that target right now with current battery tech. And before people say that 2035 is a long way off...it isn’t. We have basically 5 years to figure out how to make WAY more batteries and/or figure out how to do more…

I expect the same thing to happen regarding old muscle cars—no driving till you prove you can handle such a barebones car. There’s no such thing as traction control on these dinosaurs—it’s you versus the throttle and the brakes for how well you can control the car. And having been raised on cars with nanny…

“Cars are still becoming increasingly unaffordable,”

So instead of just letting rich assholes walk free, hold them accountable, and expect courts to actually do their jobs… they’ll just make more laws?

Best and best-run might be a stretch, but I would agree that they are having a “Korean Car Renaissance” much like the Japanese auto makers had in the 80s and 90s.

This was also a really dick move

Hyundai-Kia is the best run automobile company in the world right now.

I owned a 2000 GT-S from new from June 2000 to June 2020...when a deer took it out. 246,000 miles? It’s just getting warmed up, I got 382,000 from mine before the deer. These photos taken just before that, and you can see I kept it looking brand new inside and out for all that time. I replaced my clutch at 176,000 and…

Car was unstoppable

Brabus Smarts are not an uncommon thing. You could buy them at the dealership.

That’s absurd. He’d be wearing a mask so that nobody would know he owns a Hoobastank CD.

I’m pretty sure he’s trying to get his Hoobastank album un-jammed from the CD player, not steal the car.

It’s fine for its purpose. Not everything needs to decimate the 1/4 mile.

I really wish that these articles would go further to explain why these vehicles don’t get sold in the states. It’s always argued that the car manufacturers are somehow being unfair to customers by restricting certain models to certain markets, but that doesn’t mean the car will sell in great numbers if they suddenly…