I just love that you can get a 5 cylinder, turbo, AWD, liftback car (and until the current generation, with a manual transmission) in the first place. I’d lust after it even if it was uglier than a Fiat Multipla!

Yes, renting a car in Edmonton during a snowy April - and just getting all season tires - was disappointing.

Now that I know this is a thing, I’m going to have to plan to make the drive there from Michigan this winter!

They still have a mechanical differential. Just an open differential rather than a limited slip differential. An open differential is not a non-mechanical differential.

Here’s one of my more realistic dream trips. I’d prefer to ride it on a relatively lightweight adventure or sport touring bike. My BMW F800s would be doable if I avoid loose gravel, but something like a Triumph Tiger 800 with 90/10 tires would be perfect.

“There’s also torque vectoring and a mechanical rear differential for enhanced stability.”

Rechts vor links is, IMHO, an imbecilic solution to the problem of dealing with uncontrolled (or all stop) intersections. It completely fails when two drivers are approaching an intersection from opposite directions - particularly if they are both turning left at an intersection where those paths would cross. I have…

Salescritter? I love that word, never heard it before!

I live near Flint but didn’t even know about that incident until now.

Too late to edit my post, but under Torque, ‘diameter’ should instead be ‘radius’.

I had a set of Pirelli Sottozero Serie 2 tires on my E90 328xi. They were pretty much amazing and the perfect tire as far as mid/SE Michigan winters go.

FFS:

It’s amazing that no one died instantly in that crash. The speed of it was ridiculous.

He’s nuts!

That’s beautiful car, Patrick! Old Bimmers always look perfect in black.

Thankfully it seems the airbag system on the E61 LCI is relatively reliable. They even fixed a design flaw from early E61s that led to the intake hose breaking and allowing debris in that would kill the pump.

Thankfully, I’ve not yet had a CEL on my 535xi.

Jason, thanks for another gem.

Oh, it’s definitely not a bug!