The flip-down part of the X5 tailgate is always in the way. When up, it increases the height you have to lift your luggage. When down, it increases the distance to the front end of the trunk. The X6 is also stupid, but uglier. Of course, I speak as someone who drives almost exclusively on longer hauls, with a full…

No. The X5 has the two-piece tailgate, where the lower part is always in the way (unless you are sitting on it). The X6 is also stupid, but uglier.

I loaded my 40lbs hiking pack into an X5M last weekend without opening the tailgate bit and it didn’t seem like an issue to me.

Im 6'1”, and getting a beer crate to the front of the X5's trunk is an exercise in poor design, as opposed to the M-Class/GLE, the Q7, the - well, damn me if most SUVs in the X5's class don’t have a better trunk lid. Admittedly, the Ranger Rover (not the Sport) follows the same approach. Which doesn’t make it any…

If you ask me, the X5 has “stupid” written on it in all of its incarnations, if only for the moronic trunk lid. Who thought that a design that requires the user to either lift EVERY piece of luggage at least 4' OR lean into the trunk in a pose more reminiscent of a snooker player than someone getting ready for a…

I am in the frustrating process of carshopping right now. Having looked up the prices for 18" tires, I cannot express how much I love my current 15" wheels (about 200 % more). Also, the original Countach had 14" wheels, so there.

In 20013 I bought a car that was then eight years old. It had cost 24,000 when new and I bought it for slightly under 7,000. And it was a Mazda. I don’t find depreciation on this Royce all that spectacular.

70 % in eight years is fast depreciation?

“Buy the damn Minivan” may be sound advice in the US. Here in central Europe, not so much, at least not for me. The vans we get here are all like planes: prime seating up front, second-class seating behind. As much as I would prefer a minivan, I am not going to get another one because me and the wife spend significant…

And here I was hoping the show had hit peak stupidity in episode 3. (“We are the leaders of an army that is mankind’s last hope for survival. Let’s take those dragons for a pleasure ride, why don’t we!”) Meh.

If pro skiing is anything like pro snowboarding, then no, you don’t have to “come from money”. I grew up near one very successful pro snowboarder, and his folks are normal rural middle class.

The most notable thing about that wikipedia page is that makes no mention whatsoever of the 4th Latin declension. Which would be the one where the plural of a noun ending in -us absolutely unambiguously also ends in -us. Since “Lexus” did not exist previous to the brand, they can choose whichever declension they want.…

What the hell? In that poster I see one shirt of proper length and shitty fit, and one shirt that fits properly but is too short. Didn’t they have different fits where Mr. Riccobono invented his “problem”?

That is all well and good. We have become used to our surroundings always being lit to some degree, even at night, which makes it seem less obtrusive. But when driving through a dark environment (like, really dark) it is obtrusive. It is less obtrusive when dimmed, when the background is dark etc. Still, a large…

The source of light is really a problem. I remember when I was a kid and my Dad got into a car at night someone else had driven before him, he would always dial down the gauge lighting so as to improve his night vision. Nowadays we basically have torches shining in our faces when driving at night.

Certainly not. But you might still want to fiddle with the A/C, the rear window defroster or the radio. And I think you meant “shouldn’t” not “should”.

Wow. I love the Alphard, but I am genuinely surprised that the Lexus version is even uglier than the Alphard.

A cool feat, and one that would actually be illegal in traffic where I am sitting. (Insurance can bail out if you have an accident wearing loose-heel footwear.)

I always admired the confidence it must have taken to style the Multipla. Odd, sure, but ugly? I mean, ugly compared to a BMW X6, a truly abominable look-at-the-size-of-my-dick type of car? Never! The only thing I found overdone in the Fiat was the C3PO-look of the center vents.

Speaking as someone who bikes on a daily basis in a larger European city, I can assert that this is not an Australian thing. More of an asshole thing, like.