$51K? I doubt it. Having shopped around for an M235i, (MSRP in the mid-$40's) I think it’s safe to say that if you want an M2 be prepared to spend $60K. I dealt with four BMW dealers and only one would actually just give me a damn “out the door” price for the M235i. The others wanted to “discuss it” or (one dealer)…

If - &deity forbid - this goes mainstream they’ll be at least one YouTube channel dedicated to videos of how silly gesturing to your car looks to other drivers.

I’ll pass until the twin-turbo is on the dealer lots but I’ve got a coworker who drives his two-state territory in his leased Q50 and:

Obviously you are not familiar with the ways of BMW dealers.

If you really, really don’t care about what happens to you post-mortem then donate your earthly remains to a body farm...we have a lot of family ties to the University of Tennessee so theirs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universit…) is what’s specified with us. If nothing else you’re helping the science of…

Step back and savor the fifty years of technology you just saw...video and drone technology developed to fight the Commies, endless storage and CPU horsepower developed for NASA (and NSA) used to mix down the video, network technology only dreamed of in the first streaming porn days of the late 1990’s and all mixed…

Just take a picture of your car in front of the service bay. Use a 3/4 rear angle shot that shows A) your car, B) the license plate and C) some item that clearly identifies the dealer. Most recent phones will tag this with GPS data as well.

11. I had my hand up but apparently your back was turned.

Well, not me but my wife. She would always go on about how she didn’t give a hoot about what kind of car she drove as long as it was reliable, basic transportation. A long time ago we had the opportunity to buy a lightly used 1st gen Ford Escort. It was A) reliable, B) inexpensive and C) low mileage but it looked like…

Ah, crap. This is a little like reading the obituaries and seeing an old friend at the top of the list.

Nope. More like Charlie Wilson’s War.

Thank you for posting this video. Like others I have a morbid fascination on the forensics involved.

I’ve been out harassing BMW dealers in search of an M235i. They are decent little cars but the M2 is the package I want. The M235i is decent enough. It’s what I’d imagine a Miata built by the Germans would drive like. But it really needs an extra dose of grunt.

Yes, this was part of it. I’ve heard larger numbers. Thanks for the link!

Well, it’s all in the context of North Carolina politics. Duke has a lot of political juice here and they’ll back just about anyone’s play as long as they stay out of Duke’s business (their CEO backed having the DNC national convention in Charlotte, for example). The legislature has gone whole-out Tea Party Republican…

Can’t make this stuff up:

Film incentives? How about two weeks of legislative time wasted on women’s nipples? Sheesh. Don’t get me started either....

In order to maintain southern civility, the good state of North Carolina had all their charging stations (placed at rest stops along various interstates) removed. They had been installed under the previous (D) governor and the current (R) governor decided that they were “too costly” although the feds paid for them to…

Ashes to ashes.

Eh, trust me, he knows. He’ll wait patiently for you to fess up or just suddenly it’s 30 years later and he’ll say “Remember when you trashed my pickup?” oh so casually. I speak from experience.