First I've heard of this story. Mighty glad he did it.

Respect.

Genius marketing or Ebay fail?

Great update! Glad to see you're enjoying the car. Good to hear you found a good mechanic. I just did a roadtrip from Vancouver, Canada to Los Angeles and back, my car ran flawlessly and it was an epic trip! Hope your Croatia adventure goes well.

Bobby Brown does not approve...

They did sell 70,000 Opel GTs in the US out of a total of 100,000 made. I wouldn't consider that a failure...

"The Adam, available at your local Buick retailer"

Or just call it Adam and sell it exclusively at Buick dealers.

Wow that IS rare!

That's a E91 facelift. It never came with a SMG, only 6-speed auto or 6-speed manual (RWD). Early E60 545i could be ordered with a SMG, although I'm not sure about the wagon.

Schumacher hits Villeneuve at Jerez 1997

There's a bit of missing context here from the author. I was just in Calgary a couple of days ago when this started so I saw this first hand. The Bow River is running extremely fast, much faster than normal and much higher than normal. It's high enough to cover the lower decks of some bridges. Being on the river right…

This trend has been around for a long time. Think 1st gen Honda Odyssey or Mazda MPV from the same era. Ironically, they both turned into actual minivans...

I typed V70R in Craigslist and...

For all the PR BS, I think Vettel is actually helping a little bit at Infiniti. Car and Driver's interview with him gives a little more insight:

Fail during a PR event is the best sort of fail. It's called a gravel trap for a reason.

I've told friends to give up cars. Not because I think they're too difficult of a project, but because they never drive them. They just sat there because they didn't have time or were too cheap to run them or started modding them and got stuck.

Great post!

Jalopnik Vancouver meet! I'll be on the lookout for a brown Mercedes GL! Wait, there are too many around here lol....