Everybody gets the S54 wrong... it’s not about the exhaust note, it’s about the intake noise! Put a CSL-style carbon airbox on it and you’ll forget that the exhaust was ever a problem. Induction noise > exhaust noise.

The BMW S54 is superior. It makes 333hp out of 3.2L in factory trim! That’s over 100hp/L, without any forced induction. And if you remove the restrictive factory headers and open up the intake some, you can make even more power than that. It’s a racecar engine for the street, with solid lifters, an 8000rpm redline,…

It’s a hybrid, it still has a 4.4L turbo V8. So still gonna have pretty crap fuel economy but by making it a *hybrid* the rich idiots who buy these will feel all smug and righteous.

Call me cynical but I feel like daily driving a modern exotic car isn’t nearly as much of a feat as people might think it is. The only real costs (aside from the usual gas/insurance/tax) are in depreciation, but if you’re rich enough to not care, there’s really not a lot keeping you from daily driving a Ford GT,…

De-platforming all the awful websites is long overdue... when a site becomes so cancerous that it becomes a danger to people’s safety and wellbeing, that’s when it’s time to pull the plug. We shouldn’t be allowing online meeting places for the worst people of society.

I mean, that project has kinda become the measuring stick of “projects that never get done.”

I scrape them off at every gas station I go to. That’s my contribution to this world.

You could also just keep your home at a reasonable temperature to where your AC isn’t cranking very hard. I keep my house set to 76º and that’s perfectly fine in the Arizona summer. With regular filter changes and annual maintenance, the electric bill rarely exceeds $150 a month in this 1750 sq ft, 2-story house.

I guess having Tahoes with 5.3's and 6.2's idling all day long burns a lot of gas, who could’ve seen that coming?!

The more people you take in the car with you, the cheaper it gets, especially if you’re splitting gas costs. My family drove from NYC to Phoenix to visit me a while back, and with 4 people in a Camry Hybrid it made total sense to just drive, because 4 round-trip tickets from NYC to Phoenix would have been insanely…

That, and also in amateur motorsports, an ICE car is far more practical. I can do an entire track day without having to stop and charge, I just have to add gas if I run out, which takes a few minutes at most. Meanwhile most electric cars have awful range when you start beating on them at the track.

Exactly! Sure, electric cars can be quite fast and put down ridiculous 0-60 times, but they’re one-trick ponies in that regard. Most of them are too heavy to actually feel like a nimble sports car. My “big” car is an old 5 series that weighs like 3500lbs, and my fun car is an old 3 series that weighs 2600lbs, electric…

My idea of affordable is $1500 cash. That’s what I’ve paid for the last 7 or 8 cars I’ve owned.

This! People seem to think that everybody can afford/justify a $35k new car, but a lot of people really can’t.

I’d rather have an old Alfa with the original motor, it’s got so much character that electric cars just seem to lack. Crappy Italian wiring and finicky carbs are all part of the character.

I don’t want to own any. They’re all very expensive and I don’t ever want to buy/finance a new car, plus my credit sucks anyways. Even with the higher gas prices, it’s still cheaper for me to keep putting gas into my $1000 car for years and years. Used electric cars will have the same issues as used laptops and…

If there’s a silver lining to this gas price nightmare, it’s that maybe people will stop driving their gas-guzzling SUV’s and trucks quite as much. Bring back small cars!

Psh, 3000 at 70? That’s nothing. My E34 525i sits at like 3600 at 75-80, it’s fine. Somehow it manages 25-26mpg in highway driving so I ain’t complaining.

A friend of mine drove his questionable engine-swapped BMW 318ti on a 6 hour road trip with:

I liked my technoviolet M3 more.