Seat side... less wiring, out of the way when you don’t need them, and it makes swapping seats in and out easier when the controls are all self-contained.

Have you ever been to Russia? Shoddy engineering is the backbone of the country. My grandfather had a Lada and to say the engineering in it was lazy would be a massive understatement.

No. In my opinion, they haven’t gotten any better since the 90's. Cars from that era had reliable fuel injection that starts every time, disc brakes all around, decent feeling manual transmissions, enough power to get around, comfortable enough for road trips, basic ABS, safe enough to not die instantly in an…

Man, these buses were the staple of my childhood... the MTA ran them for years in NYC. The AC was great in the summer and they had a really good ride for a city bus. In my opinion these were far more charming than the soulless low-floor boxes that replaced them.

The Phoenix metro area is a very gridded city but the public transit here is a joke, income inequality is quite high, and social welfare is an absolute afterthought. Granted, most of that is due to idiotic Republican leadership and not due to the city’s layout.

Sounds like my local Autozone where half the employees are miserable boomers that talk about the “plandemic” and masks being a violation of personal freedoms, government overreach, blah blah blah. The amount of harassment that my friends and I have received here in Arizona for wearing masks (despite all of us being…

I’m a BMW mechanic, I like complicated suspensions. Simple suspension designs stress me out.

Man, that rear axle design makes me so mad every time I see it. I know FCA likes phoning it in on pretty much everything that isn’t a Charger/Challenger, but this is just egregious.

I just went to the one remaining race shop in my town, tried on a bunch of helmets and found one that fit my giant head (I wear a size 8 in fitted hats, snapbacks don’t fit me at all). It’s a Bell 2XL+ or something like that and it fits snug but is still comfortable. I’m happy there’s a shop in town where I can try…

Oh yeah. None of this did, lol. Trump was a total shitshow and I was totally wrong about everything, so I didn’t repeat that mistake in 2020 and voted him out along with half of the country.

Maybe that wasn’t the ideal word, but I certainly don’t feel proud of this country and the way it’s been treating people, both currently and historically.

I’m ashamed of this country, it’s all just a bunch of talk with no substance to back it up. I’m ashamed that almost half of the country willingly voted for a racist idiot... twice. I’m ashamed that police attacks on minorities have continued, mostly without repercussion aside from a few well-publicized cases.

Well I haven’t seen my parents in years, nor has my girlfriend, so we’re flying to see them in June. We’re both vaccinated and all of our parents are vaccinated, so I’m not worried at all. Whether it’s required or not at that point, we’ll wear our masks on the plane.

Mmm yes, capitalism!

I know we’re trying to drive down emissions all around, but I feel like Lamborghini doesn’t sell enough cars, nor do any of their cars get driven enough to merit these emissions changes. It’s the daily drivers, commercial vehicles, commercial ships, and airplanes we should be keeping a closer eye on.

All my friends here in Arizona like to complain about the roads here, but honestly the majority of them are pretty darn good here. The midwest and east coast definitely take the cake for worst roads, which makes sense because snow/ice/salt is what tears up roads. In Arizona the only bad thing that happens to roads is…

Missed the original post but I just rolled over 281k miles in my 1992 BMW 525i. It’s on its original engine, original clutch (as far as I can tell) and has most of its original paint too. I paid $1200 for it in October 2020 and it had 267k back then— I racked up the miles pretty quickly!

As one oddly prescient Collegehumor video once said about Gofundme, “it’s a popularity contest where if you lose, you die,” and “Gofundme, the unwitting lynchpin of the failing American healthcare system.”

On a public road in normal driving there’s not really a noticeable difference, but I do take my cars to the track pretty frequently, and to twisty canyon roads at night when they’re empty, and then it starts to matter.

Higher center of gravity, especially with the E34 wagons that had the ridiculous double sunroof. On the E39 wagons they got a different rear suspension design that’s not as good at handling because it was designed for maximum cargo capacity (the shocks sit at a 45º angle).