Forget comparing them to Lincoln, compare them to any run of the mill German car.  The Cadillac interior is rental car quality.  It’s pathetic.  

$17M, $70M. A piece of automotive history like this shouldn’t be “sold”, it should be put in a museum for the automotive public to behold. It’s not like the oil baron/tech giant/heir/heiress/e-commerce mogul is going to drive the damn thing anyways. They’ll spend their gobs of cash and hide it away in a temperature…

Oh, gasoline, kerosine, used grease / motor oil, Zippo fluid...all acrid scents that should alert you to danger, but instead I find enticing.

Mine LOVES the smell of gas too, and also car parts stores and Harbor Freight. She knows or cares nothing about cars and tools, but she’ll come in with me just for the smell.

In that case, next date night may I suggest Perfume de Sunoco. It’ll drive her wild.

Most of that lag is caused by the server in the store. The pumps themselves are on a closed network with that store, and it runs everything. Cash-registers, pumps, authorizations.

And they are incompatible with polarized glasses

Wow... that’s five minutes of my life I’ll never get back. 

Those stupid pumps running ads and “news” segments about some celebrity’s new baby really make me want to punch them. I’ve gotten as far as redirecting my fist to hit the plastic shrouds instead so I don’t have to pay $1,600 for a fucking $4 screen because THEY WON’T SHUT UP.

Well la dee da, Mr. Doesn’t-Get-Chased-By-Supervillains.

Thought the exact same thing when I saw the headline. Didn’t even bother to read the article because I had to star the inevitable comment about the episode right away.

Are you trolling us because that’s a Grand Tour episode.

Not too excited for the next one, based off of the photos of the MK8 circulating so far. So basically, from the looks department, the GTI / R are pretty much dead to me. Though I would never want to see these cars fade out of existence, just because you get so much car for the amount of money they are, and they’re…

No, dealerships do need to be divorced from Manufacturers, but they serve a valuable purpose - Service.

When they say “center caps”, I assume that reference includes functional pieces like “center lock nuts” that secure the wheels on some high-performance models.

*Electric drill overdub INTENSIFIES*

The answer to that is yes to both. AFAIK, nobody has figured out how to make forced induction engines run optimally on 87 Octane. These days you don’t really run the risk of detonation, but you’ll definitely experience timing changes and possibly boost being turned down. I had a Jeep Renegade with the 1.4L Turbo and I…

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