I wonder how they would have put a residual on a lease on a car that is typically selling for 50% over MSRP. My guess is that you can’t get a normal lease on one much less a shared lease. I can picture it now, $549 per month with only $48,000 down.

There isn’t any need for intentional disruption, the incompetence of not having ANY backups at all seems to show they didn’t need any help to fuck up what any systems admin in the country knows how to do.

I think BMW went most of the way against DIY maintenance when they replaced a $2 dipstick with a $218 sensor to determine oil level. I think that started with the E46 3 series if I recall correctly. But the E60 was definitely clear up to the point of absolutely no DIY. New battery, oil change, cabin air filter change…

Are they actually doing anything more than disconnecting the battery?

When people ask me about our experience owning the M5 I tell them almost exactly the same thing. Yep, you sure can afford to buy an E60 M5 (decent ones are down below $20k now and good ones are below $30k), are you sure you can afford to own it? I actually could afford to own it, just found after a while that I simply…

What psycho rated silverfish and earwigs that low. Super fast creepy crawly that has way to many legs and tends to run across the bathroom floor when you are going to the bathroom late at night and Wrath of Kahn looking pincer bug that show up everywhere. Those are not things which should be ranked this low.

Just around the corner from me a Camaro body sits atop what I think is an older Blazer frame. Don’t think the thing has moved out of the guy’s driveway in four years.

Almost certainly there was some ass-hattery occurring before the filming started to entice someone to take their phone out and start the filming in the first place and chances are near 100% that the Z was actively wearing that hat as well. On a positive note, filmed in landscape.

At least one of the severe injuries reported in the linked article was a detonation without an accident. Sounds like the stuff eventually gets so unstable it can go off even without the electrical trigger.

Some numbers. NHTSA estimates that airbags save 2500 lives a year in the US. Takata peaked at a 17% share of the market in 2007.

You’ve just described how I treated the M button on my E60 M5. Most of the time I drove around in 400HP mode, got slightly better gas mileage and the shifts were smoother out of the god awful DSG. But that little button on the steering wheel got pressed every once in a while and the car was set to be in full power…

It is amazing to me that even a salvage rebuilt Type R with non functioning ABS, airbags, fuel gauge or AC is still well worth $8500. I really should have bought one in 2000 instead of that PoS Celica GT-S I ended up with.

Depending on whether the fourth year of his contract with Cleveland was a team option the Cavs might still be paying this guy up to another $8.3M after his firing. No matter what they’re paying him a reported $3.33M for next year while he’ll also be making $1.7-2M from this deal. Retired municipal employees only dream…

I know they aren’t really the same car at all but I’ve always wondered why Hyundai didn’t give the Genesis the same 3.8 engine the Genesis Coupe got. Seems like the ~600 pound heavier non-Coupe could have used that extra 12% HP.

My grandfather had a ‘79 when I was a kid. I remember thinking it was the coolest car ever since it had been in the race. Nobody ever bothered to explain to five year old me that it was a replica and that they sold over 10,000 of them.

Every time I hear one of these stories about people getting “tricked” or “accidentally” upgrading to 10 I have to wonder why you hadn’t done it months ago. What wonky network hardware are you using that Windows 10 didn’t have drivers for? What files did you lose access to? Every single upgrade I’ve seen no matter how…

Other than the discredited EWG study there actually are good reasons not to wear most sunscreens to the beach. At least four of the common sunscreen ingredients are lethal in amazingly small concentrations to corals and other marine invertebrates. Oxybenzone for instance can reportedly poison corals in concentrations…

How the living hell can the take rate of manuals be 33%? I wanted to look at the Veloster Turbo as a commuter car option back in February. There wasn’t a single manual transmission one on a dealer lot in the entire state of Ohio at the time and I was told none were inbound for the next three months.

First time I saw an i3 I was looking the car over to see what they were like in person when the owner came out. He was happy to brag about his car and I was amused to listen to him. “It’s faster than an M5 to 60"

I don’t know what the car’s gear ratios are but my guess is that other than that one time you want to prove it can do 0-60 in 4.1 seconds you’ll never use 1st gear. I know I basically never used first in my old 7 speed M5, there wasn’t much point and it had a significantly less torquey engine than this car does (plus…