You're right that those two words mean the same thing in standard English. However, in the motorsports world "quickness" generally refers to acceleration or the speed with which a vehicle/driver manages some particular course, whereas "fast" refers to the top speed. This is a distinction that I was taught by…

Hellcats probably help to sell a lot of stock challengers. Vipers...yeah, as great as they are, their perception in the general population isn't doing much to sell themselves or other Chrysler group product.

But Uber is likely not trying to solve the entire problem. They'll probably succeed in building up a small portfolio of related patents which will be used defensively (i.e. to force reciprocal license agreements with holders of other self-driving patents).

Dear BMW, it looks like someone is trying out-clownshoe you.

She needs to think it's her idea. Now get to inceptin'.

"Allroad: because you can swap out that stupid pneumatic suspension for, like, $400 and you weren't going to change the ride height anyway"

No, it definitely is, just not the traditional use of exotic for cars. The interior alone earns it that description. Seriously, everyone should strive to get this blend of beauty and simplicity and elegance in their dash layout.

There is that. A Dark Soul's gotta eat. Carry on.

Good point. I'll see if they're getting caught in the trees downwind.

It was probably a required to be an official recall by the specific nature of the problem. Something innocuous could have just been a TSB. Either way, you've only got one customer.

That is probably exactly what they did. As long as they properly document the notification and subsequent remediation, there's not a specific way a recall needs to be performed. If GM wanted to send out a mechanic to the house of everybody involved in the ignition recall, that would be perfectly acceptable.

Wish they'd put that effort into reliability instead. I loved my 5000S, but it was a love that wasn't meant to last. By the time it was 5 years old, it was costing me a fortune to keep it running. There's a reason you *never* see 80s Audis on the road anymore.

C'mon. Have a sense of humor about it. As a fellow BMW owner/lover, you have to know that a fair number of us act like huge d-bags. You can't help but notice that a lot of BMW drivers seem to exibit higher-than-average tendency to generate assholeish moments on the road (to say nothing of the parking lot).

There's a difference between cliches and commonly used phrases. There is no benefit in novelty for its own sake - English generally does the job best when used in familiar ways. The problem with cliches is that they are a trite way of presenting thoughts relying on predigested understanding which doesn't lead to any…

This is how class-action suits work. The only people who see any real money are the attorneys who get a percentage of the maximum settlement cost. That's why I immediately throw away any class-participation documents that come my way.

The Flex thing seems to be regional. When my Texan dad saw mine, he didn't even know it existed and was shocked to find that Los Angeles was full of them (really, it's become a bit much lately). I had it for two years before he called excitedly to tell me he'd seen one on the road in Houston.

Nissan are just playing to their strength. Isn't their motto "A car you have to own, not one you want to own"?

If they were doing that, I'm sure they would've mentioned that in a hurry to exonerate themselves.

Camaro towing a jet ski. Freakin' perfect.

It's definitely not an SUV. You've got to have a truck suspension to call it that and the Flex is built on a modified version of the P2 platform that Ford took from the Volvo S80 and has very little suspension travel. It's also just a rebodied Freestyle, which definitely fell in the wagon camp (a particularly ugly…