So the Z4/Supra only get the B58, but the X4 and the X3 get the S58 with like an extra hundred horsepower.  Because SUV’s need more power than sports cars I guess.

It’s amazing that every word of what you wrote here is nonsense, but this is particularly ignorant:

Pure capitalism DOES NOT work for democracy. When there’s no supervision of the market (buyers and sellers) the system runs amok. That’s where government regulation (socialism?) is necessary. In a pure capitalistic and democratic society the rich get richer and richer and richer. Eventually those rich few become your…

Where do you see 50%? With exception of i3, all have less than 40% and that is in 20 degrees, not 45 or 32, 20.

Good news.  Once the planet warms up enough, cold weather range won’t be an issue.

It used to run on the blood of Christ, but that didn’t perform well in North American focus groups. 

It’s not really 2+2. Yea, there’s a padded bench with seat belts behind the front seats, but the only way anyone can sit in them is if they remove the front seats.

The Haldex is pretty good. The newer generation systems have better torque transfer. The system is now pre-loaded for faster transfer and also supports predictive torque transfer, so it will begin transferring torque to the rear when the wheel is turned.

I bought one of these. It’s tremendous. To answer the question of who would buy one of these versus a Cayman or M2: someone who lives in a place where AWD plus snow tires is necessary to drive safely six months each year.

Not a truck guy.  Even I think your configurator pic looks badass.

Pretty well. I’m dying to get mine back from the shop so I can stop driving my ATS-V. Certainly can’t match my old s2000 when it comes to feeling light and flinging around corners, but the back-end also doesn’t want to become the front end as easily.

It has always baffled me as why electric cars do not use capacitors for brake energy harvesting or pulling charge when coasting. They can hold for about a minute then resupply to pull away from a red light. Some clever programming can have the capacitors emergency dump charge into the battery after a set amount of…

There’s also good reason to believe we won’t see $4/gal any time soon. 2008 was a much different time for the oil industry, the US hadn’t figured out how to get to all the shale oil we can get to today. We have a truly absurd amount of this shale oil.

True, but those who remember the past also repeat it, because they think their forefathers had some good ideas.  See:  MAGA.

I mean, I get that WHP is the more clear definition of the amount of power a car (not engine) has, but you already explained why this is impossible:

While we are on the topic of making information more useful to consumers. It really irritates me that very few manufacturers clearly state the width of their vehicles. Especially confusing is with or without mirrors not being clear. As someone who lives in the city, this is actually useful information when considering…

All of the pro-Brexit folks I know (from the UK) are also fans of Trump.

Republicans are being disingenuous liars? Fetch me my fainting couch!

I actually don’t think trucks are a substitute for land yachts, because they’re bad at being a family car. The traditional land yacht was primarily used to cart around children and groceries. The truck doesn’t have weather-protected cargo without modification, and the relatively high ride height makes loading and…

Me.