WE have a retard, repeat, we have a retard

I agree with JTSnooks. The thing everybody seems to forget is that a car that looks worse after an accident is usually the better car to be in during that accident. The Ferrari absorbed the energy in the crumple zone(like it was supposed to) and the smart just transferred the energy to the occupants(and their organs)…

I am hardly conservative, rather, I like change. But usually I prefer change for the better, not for worse. The amount of scrolling to read comments(about +50% of the fun of jalopnik is the comments) is too damn high. Do they even use a focus group, or do they just change it and see what happens? I mean, do they just…

Yes but it is still not a production car. The outer shell is a production car, but is in fact a "tuned" car. A very highly engineered tuned car. And even if the car were created from scratch, it would still not be a production car as wikipedia puts it: The characteristics of a production vehicle or production car are m…

Just found this on the fuelshark website, note the "tell". I would guess the owner is not very good at gambling.

yeah but those sold well in europe(why I do not know, I have driven in one of them and they where terrible, no power nor handling, I would rather drive in a wienermobile than in this) but it has the "mercedes brand" as does the active tourer has it's "bmw brand"so people who said I need a practical car and want my…

Yes the engine in an i3 isn't that big either, because there is no need for a "gearshift box" (I do think it has a gearbox but I think it's a fixed reduction gear) But Stephan Kippe is quite right. But bmw should not be about cheap when you pay premium prices

That ultimate driving machine is quite recent marketing material. I still have a bmw published book with the same layout but where"ultimate driving machine" would stand it says "bmw Transportsystemen"(translated: transportation systems) and that was from when we bought our e36 (somewhere in the nineties). And that has…

yes but it is entirely possible that no ground water was detected during sample drills and then because of changing conditions(like a dam being built 100 miles away, another building that cut off the normal path of the sub ground water, changing climate etc etc.) that water would begin to erode and create a karst.…

thanks, that was very informative. Here in Belgium we are required to do those tests whenever a building exceeds a certain size, and even if the building is small enough, it is very much encouraged. But we have less faults in our ground, so once the drills are done, the ground does not change very much (unless a water…

Speaking as an engineer, here in Belgium we make a lot of ground samples(we use a drill every 2m or so to a depth of about 20m) before proceeding to build anything. Was this odne while building the museum and is this even customary in the usa?

Yes but since these are american, I am assuming they have AT's, But I guess the reason why there are less videos of people driving (unintentionally) into a store-window in the eu, than in the usa, is the abundance of MT's in europe. If one were to apply the gas instead of the brakes with a MT, it would just rev the…

dunno, byt when that whole toyota debacle was going on, I asked myself the same question. I know that when I am cruising in my bmw and someone hits the on/off button, the motor cuts out, however, just pushing it once again brings it to life without using the start engine, which is reasonable since the forward momentum…

the cool thing is, from the looks of the photos after the dissaster, the two halfs kept floating

looks like superman was drunk again and played with some pebbles.

Ps, do not get me wrong, my dad instructed the very basics of automotive maintenance, but the most important thing was that he learned me to learn by myself, if you do not know, you look it up, so he learned me to learn myself, which means i surpassed him, as hopefully my children shall surpass me, not only in…

This is strange, because if you would not change your oil, an alert every time you started the car would show until it was reset(presumably by a mechanic who did teh oil change, or in my case, by myself, a freaking millennial that whipes the floor with my dad's automotive knowledge)

I do not understand why the "made in usa" is so important. We live in a globalized world, so nothing is really from one place. The yeast in your american beer might well be a european yeast, the wiperblades on my bmw might be manufactured in the usa, my iphone is assembled in china, but the software is written in…

But isn't OnStar an option?

Humm, I like the idea and do not like the idea. I like that thieves etc. can be stopped without harming anyone, however, I do not like to see a litle "black box" in my car. Do not get me wrong, I am(for the most part) a law abiding citizen.But after a while, will this not enable a "you drove 5kmph over the speed…