Every time I see your car I get lurid thoughts and find myself going on Autotempest uncontrollably. I miss my 95 318ti, it was a lot of fun to drive and it made going anywhere feel like an occasion. That and it was so darn easy to work on... I did a cooling system and clutch on it in record time.

It’s like a worse-built, uglier Porsche 944 with the finest in British electronics and interior build quality. Was the person that stitched the interior drunk or something? I don’t see a single straight line there.

Synthetic fuels, hydrogen, ethanol, whatever. Something you can put into an existing ICE motor to keep it going... the average age of a car on the road nowadays is 12 years, so buying a new EV clearly isn’t an option for everyone. Used EV’s are a potential can of worms with decreased range and shoddy parts…

Agreed, all these electric cars feel like a beta test program for early adopters rather than something that should be forced upon the general population. For a very specific subset of the population that lives in a single-family house with a charger and drives a short distance to a white-collar job with chargers in…

I don’t understand the condescending tone I see from media publications regarding companies continuing to make ICE engines... I for one, am happy to see that companies aren’t going all-in on EV’s, because there’s still a lot of people that prefer the range, reliability, and sounds of ICE engines. You’ll have to pry my…

A friend of mine rolled a bunch of negative equity from several ill-advised car purchases into a Toyota RAV4... it ended up being a $48,000 RAV4, which almost became a running joke in my friend group due to it being an extremely base FWD RAV4 costing more than a Limited.

The reality is that despite what media outlets claim, ICE vehicles will be around for long enough that the current generation of technicians can probably go most of (if not all of) their life without ever having to work on an EV. I don’t intend to own or work on EV BMW’s at my shop any time soon, I stay more than busy…

That seems to be the way most independent shops are going everywhere. For example, I own one of the only shops in the Phoenix, AZ area that’ll touch a BMW that’s pre-2000. I’ll happily work on anything from the 70's and up. Hell, I’d rather work on older BMW’s than anything after 2005 anyways... plastic garbage.

A perfect use for this song:

A big part of it is emissions and crash safety. Since each Singer starts as a 964 and retains its VIN, it is not subject to modern emissions or crash safety standards. That’s how they can get away with still having air-cooled engines and no airbags despite being an almost completely new car (I think only the base…

I drove 12,500 miles in the last 5 months. Even less of a candidate, lol. My commute is only 7 miles each way, most of the mileage was me having fun going on road trips and driving canyon roads.

I am not even remotely considering an EV, but I am also never buying a new car either, so my opinion doesn’t really count anyways.

I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve used AM radio in my 30 years of existence... I’m far more likely to reach for my phone in an emergency than any radio station.

I worked on an S2 Cabriolet at my shop a few years back, crazy to see one in person considering how uncommon they are.

Fair enough. That being said, I think good tires are more important than traction control, because I grew up driving newer vehicles with traction control in NY and that didn’t help too much on ice because they had shitty all-season tires. A good set of snow tires will do a lot for a car, even without traction control.…

You say that, but I’ve got some friends in the Chicago and Philadelphia area that have E34's (the 5 series from 88-95) still. As far as old cars go, their factory anti-rust coatings held up fairly well, and when they rust it’s usually in inconsequential ways like the bottoms of the doors and fenders, the unibody…

I would happily pay to remove the following:

I, on the other hand, am more interested when I hear something described as “socialist,” because that means it’s good for people. Crazy “socialist” concepts including housing the homeless, affordable and effective public transit, affordable housing with rent controls, universal healthcare, parental leave, having more…

Most of these aren’t even 911-specific problems, just sounds like you’re new to German cars.

I mean, if people vandalize the cameras to the point of where it costs more to run them than the revenue they generate, the city would take them down, no? Clearly the solution is to keep destroying the cameras, particularly with a focus on permanently disabling them (aka torching them, cutting them with a chainsaw,…