That was my first thought too.

They all have the same engine, but the Mercedes design team had three years to figure out how to take advantage of it while the customer teams only learned of the engine design when they signed their contracts.

Not like it really matters, the trailer hitches have always seemed like the automaker throwing the feds a bone since the actual fix would be way too expensive. If anything this goes to show how toothless NHTSA has been.

Tesla lost credibility when he pointed out they insist their customers sign a confidentiality agreement. WTF is wrong with the people that buy these cars?

It's the difference between stripping Christians of their religious freedom and asking Muslims to respect human rights.

???? Hamilton was faster in every session except Q3. Nico didn't pass because he was 15 seconds back before the safety car and it served Mercedes' purposes to pretend they were racing at the end so the rules won't change and strip them of their advantage.

Nico was 15 seconds down when the safety car put him back in position to be shown up by Hamilton again. The intra-team "racing" today was just theater to try and stave off sweeping rule changes by Bernie Ecclestone, who is frustrated by the tedium of the new engines.

I suspect it is the Chevy dealers that are lighting a fire under their butts. Trucks are the franchise for all of the UAW-3 brands, and Chevy dealers don't want their piece of the pie to shrink. There are about 3,000 Chevy dealers, probably close to 50% more than there are Ram stores. If they're moving the same number…

They think if they make commuting by car miserable enough, we'll willingly board the boxcars for the ride to the sustainability abattoirs.

The on-ramp lights are a daily reminder that California is governed by bastards. Many of them create huge back-ups; where fuel is wasted, pollution is dense, time is wasted, and tempers flare. They do create a justification for 500 hp luxury cars though, since 0-70 is an important measure of safety here.

When asked about the F1 engine's maximum power output, Rosche once famously replied: "It must have been around 1,400 hp; we don't know for sure because the dyno didn't go beyond 1,280 hp."

That Tesla isn't concerned with living the BS they're selling is of no surprise, but I am surprised they don't have fully enclosed transporters for their stranded customer vehicles. Why give the game away?

I was sort of ambivalent until seeing the comparison photos. After seeing images side by side, the best thing I can say is that they didn't completely spoil the car. People that come up with instruments that report nothing and separate design from engineering should find another field of self-expression, like…

The magnificent Porsche 911: Like a dart flying backwards!

And why the hell are they sticking Bangle Butts on their cars in 2014? It was awful when it was current, a decade ago.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you wrote, but most Acuras depreciate far more slowly than their German competitors. The RL may be an exception, unless you benchmark it against the 7-series and A8, but TLs, TSXs, and MDXs are far less expensive to own than the disposable diapers from Germany. That everything is…

I guess that explains the proliferation of automatic transmissions owned by people that claim they're actually manual transmissions.

This is on Jalopnik because?

Eric Holder may now be the hypocrisy world champion.

I used to live in Manhattan, pay rent and watch my checkbook balance grow faster than I knew what to do with it. Nonetheless, I would have been hurt by the addition of an Audi payment, $550/month for parking in my neighborhood, and NYC car insurance for an expensive car with a 29 year old driver. I knew plenty of…