BEST rental car experience:

These are easy to remove. We had to do it all the time when I worked at a tire store. People lose their keys, so they make special bits to pull them off without the key

Compare an E65 interior to a 2001 S-class or A8. It’s easily a decade ahead. Sure, iDrive took a long time to get used to, but once you do it’s pretty handy.

Mazda interior, mazda wheels, mazda platform, mazda styling. This is a Mazda. I’d consider it.

What’s the point of Scion again?

Looks a LOT like the new Sonata (with a bit of the last gen in the rear). Who would’ve ever expected GM to take a note out of Hyundai’s stylebook?

I was about to say you wasted your money buying that warranty on a 328i, but then I remembered about the hardtop

Just replaced the alternator on my E39 m5. Cheapest I found was $360. I had a local shop rebuild mine for 100

Worst reliability: 2007 VW Rabbit

I rode in a BYD cab in Barcelona. Surprisingly nicely built

Clicked on the headline expecting another Giuliani story. Pleasant surprise.

It could be an updated model. These "X new cars in one year" almost always include refreshed models (see Chrysler in 2012, or was it 2013?).

I know, it's barbaric and dangerous, but I definitely don't want them. My car is completely safe and roadworthy, but my exhaust definitely is not legal (sound and probably emissions, too).

Not necessarily that old, but definitely a modern classic: 2001 M5. I even Lyft with it.

You can retrofit the vented seats, but that requires perforated leather centers and thus sacrificing the ostrich skin. Yes, ostrich skin. I will never sell mine for that reason alone

The Ford, Mazda and Honda approach of bundling this tech into packages to sell a bunch of extra features with it. This is an older approach.

But they SUCK on fuel. It uses a Crown Vic drivetrain in a heavier, unaerodynamic body. I think that's one of the reason's the manufacturer went under.

Tel Aviv has these things called "Sheruts". It's literally described as halfway between a bus and a taxi. They follow bus routes, but only stop where someone wants to and will pick someone up anywhere you flag them down. Costs around $2 instead of the 75 cents or so a bus does (if I can remember correctly).

My dad has a V10 and it's been reliable. Maintenance is comparable to an A8L

volvo is not Chinese. Geely has a majority stake, but the profits go back to Sweden first. Where they pay wages for Swedish employees and super high taxes to Sweden. Then the remaining profit (or debit) goes to Geely. So it benefits a lot of people in different countries, not just China. And nothing is 100% good in…