Fortunately, BMW USA has released a video to help owners learn how to use these elusive devices (clearly, it hasn’t helped):

With a towing capacity of 3,500 lb, it’s rather limited as a tow vehicle.

I disagree - modern bumper covers are designed with passenger safety in mind, rather than protecting the car. The cost of fixing them for even a minor impact is quite high compared to the old impact bumpers. In fact, modern bumper covers aren’t really bumpers anymore, as they can’t come away from a minor parking lot…

I don’t know what those haters are talking about. Those manu-matics are every bit as good as a manual transmission, because you can shift whenever you want, just like a manual. Also, it’s better than a manual because you don’t have to deal with all of that clutching and de-clutching in traffic. It’s really the best of…

What made it so fun? Was it just because it was so ostentatious? Did it’s off road prowess impress, or was it something else?

Just throwing this out there that every racing movie except for one got it all wrong:

Your reply prompted me to do some research on the matter...and the truth is somewhere in between.

None...and that’s a trick question. You’re not wearing any pants.

A good point, but at $65k, this is quite a bit more expensive to get into than a SRF.

Neat! Of course, I’m more excited about PCA’s recently announced Spec Cayman series, where a car can be built for less than a 1/3 of the price of a new GT4 CS, and there will likely be large fields of cars to actually race against. While it’s a hell of a lot less sexy than a new factory race car, this is something…

I actually don’t know anything about you. What do you take me for, some sort of Jalop-stalker?

These actually make sense on cars designed/built with the gram theory, with the idea being that if you made little gram weight savings all over the car, you end up with a much lighter car (see 1973 Porsche 911 RS, which was significantly lighter and better than it’s stablemates). Also, that sticker saves significantly…

Every single reply to this QOTD is a detail that someone thinks looks good...if this were not the case, people wouldn’t be tacking stick-on Pep Boys fake fender vents on their cars. It doesn’t mean that I can’t think (or say) that it’s ridiculous. In any case, I had stated that this was my opinion in my post and…

Here’s one that most people won’t immediately think of, because they are on every modern car and we’ve just accepted them as normal. I submit to you the modern painted plastic bumper covers. You know, these:

Ahahaha, touché good sir. Anyway, a fire extinguisher in a Ferrari kind of defeats the purpose of the modern Ferrari’s self-immolation feature.

Why wouldn’t you be a feminist? Do you not believe in equality for women? I’m not a woman and I consider myself a feminist.

It’s funny how something so inexpensive and easy to do is replicated into economy cars and aftermarket stick-on parts. It doesn’t take long for these details to become associated with cheapness (or lipstick on a pig). Another example of this were the LED’s underneath the Audi headlights. It didn’t take long for…

Im probably going to be in the minority here, because this trend just won’t go away...but for me, it’s all of the carbon fiber interior bits in everyday cars.

I’m all for that. I’m seriously considering building a Spec Cayman, mainly because they’re so inexpensive.

Of course, there are several preventative aftermarket replacement bearing kits on the market that pretty much resolve the problem (as long as you replace it with the clutch, every 75k miles or so).