Is a 535xi a “sleeper?” Maybe so.

I’m looking up the laws for North Carolina, and it sounds like his insurance policy might not have to pay at all, since it’s his own fault?

I would have suggested a Cayman if I had found any in Oregon - but the quick search I did only turned up ones in the 45k and up range.

A lot less than an AV driving on city streets. And a lot less than a human-controlled flying motorcycle at 15,000 feet.

If flying motorcycles ever make it to market, they’re going to be autonomous. That’s the only way they’d ever be safe to operate. As autonomous (and probably EV) vehicles, they make a lot of sense. It’s much easier for an AV to operate without all the unpredictability and complexity of ground-level navigation.…

Cayman was my first thought as well, but I couldn’t find any in Oregon near his budget.

This time, Miata is not the answer. Instead it’s “Porsche… there is no substitute.”

There is absolutely no reason for an autonomous electric car to be shaped like that.

Not without the hardware to do it, they’re not.

Good catch. 

All American products from WWII should also be off-limits. Firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo, experimenting on our own troops with chemical weapons based on their race, internment of Japanese Americans, dropping nuclear weapons on two cities filled with innocent civilians…

It’s not a defect, it’s a value-added feature for extra rarity!

Is it just me, or is there something kind of nostalgic, even satisfying, about a good old-fashioned manufacturing screwup?

Practical battery technology wasn’t even possible in a laboratory setting until the 1970s at the earliest. Electric cars were never going to dominate the ICE in the early 20th century.

The Mercedes OM617 inline-5 diesel.

Sadly it’s an obsolete car, with less range than a Chevy Spark EV and no particular thing that it’s good at. It’s not luxurious, it’s not a truck or van, it’s not sporty, not good-looking, and there’s nothing special that would make it collectible. I guess it’s got those fold-down trays.

Wife cool and smart. Wife have good taste.

That’s how they do it in the Citroën Ami Cargo, so it’s probably a good idea

Hear me out here: Rally-spec ECOVan

It’s really hard to beat Adam’s recommendation, because a Stinger is such a good choice.