Though I hope that the city does improve, for no one deserves to live amidst crime, from what I saw when I was there for a week last month, if there's any improvement, it's from horrible to terrible. But when I went around downtown Detroit, east of Woodward, before Indian Village, I could see that when it was a…

Thank goodness! Because such cars sell well only in France, until the government stops buying them. Then, their production is stopped.

Let's start the twist!

4th: what a pile of horse manure! I have family who works in the auto industry and lives in the greater Detroit and the the impression of the locals about the city and the industry are the same: it's a rust industry in the rust belt. Nay, calling Detroit, a city that makes bombarded Baghdad seem pristine and where…

Just unplug your local bell from the service box outside your dwelling and plug your VOIP device on any phone jack to make all phone in the house ring.

4th: No one wakes up thinking how to be a fascist is and, later on, touts to his friends how awesome a fascist police force is and the benefits of the fascist economic system. Yet fascism encircles us.

Dodge Polara? Ah, my dad had one and I learned to drive on it.

She approves of it.

Any gearhead knows that there's no such thing as an Alfa Romeo 1800 engine, but a 1750.

When knee air-bags came around I knew that they had become a fetish of marketing departments. I wonder how many putting an arm over a valentine's shoulder will have it severed by an air-bag that comes down in the middle of the cabin...

There is: CO2 emission limits per maker. They're probably down-sizing the M3 engine, when a V8 doesn't make engineering sense, and slapping turbos to make up for the smaller displacement and then some. That should get the CO2 limits satisfied in whatever unrealistic cycle the EU specifies.

So the first M3 with its I4 was not a sports sedan?

For comparison, note the extra 8" or 10" of the I6 hanging ahead of the front axle.

Though owning V6 cars, I cannot say that I can tell a V6 from an I6. Besides, it's even more likely to be turbocharged and they muffle the sound of any engine. For example, in the 750 its V8 biturbo has no burble at all.

From this smugness and holier-than-thou attitude and the total inability to frame anything except through partisan politics, I get that you: