I think you mean "nearly hit a whale."

This seems pretty common sense. Why would BMW let another dealer use a BMW warranty to help sell a car?

The original 540i was a 4.0L V8 (E34), thats why the original statement is true.

Also need to consider going from a V8 to a turbo/super 4 pot. Probably a wash on the front engine, but who knows. T cases are usually heavy, but so are batteries and electric motors.

I don't need to be in America to recognize an idiot.

Can you blame them? Police do often ticket every racer based on reports of just one of them being an asshat. I'd be scared of the same thing if I was in that position. Of course, if no one else was around, they would be total dicks for leaving. But others DID stop to help, so why put themselves at risk of being…

Point is - it makes your car safer on the road. The perfectly valid argument is that it does nothing to make you any better behind the wheel. In my view, for a feature to help you drive better, you need to show some improvement when that feature is removed.

Uh, no; because you're offloading more of the driving tasks (In this case, paying attention to your speed and follow distance), you're paying less attention to driving, therefore adaptive cruise control as you've described slides you closer to "non-driver" than "better driver".

Woah woah woah. The XJ220 was/is still great

It doesn't have two engines but an engine and an electric motor.

Wouldn't it technically be a twin-motor, since the gas engine is a motor, but the electric motor is not an engine?

Why does Jake Holmes have 4 different accents?

Not semantics, not the same thing at all. A zoom lens means the lens does not have a fixed range. A Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM SLR Lens, for example, is a wide-angle zoom lens, a Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM is a mid- to narrow-angle zoom. Both have varied focal lengths and are therefore zoom lenses, but…

"Zoom lenses" - the word you're looking for is telephoto lenses.

Um. Sucking a used tampon is WAY WAY WAY more shocking and messy than pissing in your own mouth. Shit, it's way more shocking and messy than SOMEONE ELSE pissing in your mouth.

Is it, though? Why wouldn't the door open? And for that matter, apparently neither the driver's nor passenger's door would open, which is highly unlikely. A fire in the engine bay will not have any effect on the mechanical linkages of the door locks and handles.

What? Couldn't unlock the door because the button stopped working?

Probably the driver panicked so hard he just paralysed and couldn't do anything.

There is the lock/unlock button in a Chevy Trailblazer. Large, accessible, and in a pretty standard place, yes? And according to the stories, the driver was conscious and alert. So, why could he not just open the door and step out of the car?

If it gives every distracted driver an uncrashable car I don't care. I want this in EVERY car.