Everyone needs to realize all that was said is that this grille design is worse than the beak. Not that the beak is good to begin with. That is an important distinction. And this grille is distinctly undistinct.

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/12/06/techsplanations-pedestrian-safety-design/

You know how to ruin every modern car design sold in Europe for yourself? Take a look at the hideous raised hood line for revised NCAP passenger safety regulations. It makes the A pillar point start super high and the windshield base is much higher than the side beltline. It is so horribly unseeable.

You get 4 Roadstars for this post

You will experience subframe self-destruction though, so best of luck. I was also referring to the insecurity, not the belittling. That’s just a BMW owner thing.

Jesus Christ Honda. Can you link to the article you read that?

lol I didn’t bring up anything about lap times or 0-60 buddy. Like many Z3 roadster owners, you seem to feel insecure and feel the need to belittle other cars and/or BMW owners. Good luck shaking that hairdresser banker stigma off and convincing yourself you don’t sound like the typical BMW owner you’re mocking.

Basically everything you stated is subjective and while I agree with some of your opinion, overall I would just point out that criticizing stereotypical M3 owners while smugly suggesting your M Roadster is superior because it lacks a stigma... kind of gives off the same stigma as the rest of BMW owners get. Also…

Maybe I am recalling the S52 being shorter than S54 M coupes

I disagree with your conclusion. The E46 may be more modern but it also suffers from more weight. While the E30 trailing arm design made Z3M more tricky to drive, it actually contributes to its nimbleness along with a shorter wheelbase and at the time the stiffest chassis in terms of nm/deg among BMW. Steering with…

I’ve managed to crash two of these Clownshoe beauties in my lifetime. It was a painful learning experience. E30 rear trailing arm suspension and liftoff oversteer will get you even when you’re trying to be careful. Got a lot of flack for it. Luckily they werent S54 versions so a little less sacrilegious 

While you can appreciate the lack of a bad eurotrash techno beat, they did speed the footage up a fair bit to exaggerate the direction change and acceleration of the A110... kind of makes it less exciting when you know shaky camera work and sped up post are what was thought to best sell the car.

I thought Ron shit the bed when he fired Whitmarsh. Actually McLaren shit the bed as a whole when they scrapped their phenomenal 2012 car which was the fastest car of the pack for a bottoms up new design for 2013. In a year with no regulation changes, why the fuck would you throw that progress away?

Is this Japan’s less dramatic Ford GT-40 story? I’ve heard of these cars but never really read up on the history and Porsche rivalry context. Did these run an S20, same engine in the Hakosuka KPGC-10?

Brawn effort was basically all Honda’s original Brackley team with a tacked on Mercedes engkne. Even after Mercedes HPE was established and new staff was brought on, I would still consider the Brackley team the same team no matter the owners.

BAR-Honda is a powerhouse. Just under a different name now (Mercedes). Honda pulled out the wrong year and tried coming back when they thought the timing was right. I can’t really feel bad for them...

Until you show me something that proves what you’re asserting, you’re simply talking out of your ass with hypotheticals. Fatalities may not be the only indicator of “bad driving” but it is main one that matters when it comes to having speed limits and traffic laws in the first place.

Under that assumption, any comparison between states with different demographics and physical differences is an apple to oranges comparison and is faulty. You may as well not even rank states in comparison to one another, including Florida, if that’s your reasoning. The only way to normalize it is on a per capita…

VA demonstrably has worse drivers and more traffic fatalities than Maryland not just based on absolute population but as a % of total population as well. Every year between 2011-2015 Virginia has had more Fatalities per 100,000 population.

Man Scout, you have a serious complex. I didn’t bring up NoVA, you did. And if you were trying to say all the shitty drivers are all in NoVA, your perception is wrong. Obviously the more populated areas of a state will have more drivers and more absolute number of shitty drivers among them.