Mercedes will launch the car next March at the Geneva Motor Show together with the standard CLA Shooting Brake, but don't hold your breath for it to make it into the U.S. No worries though, there's always the GLA45 AMG, "which is basically a shorter version of the same thing" according to Matt Hardigree.

Looks to me like he mis-judged how slow the BMW was entering the corner and locked 'em up trying to reduce speed to avoid a collision.

Cop should have pulled a wheelie on the horse.

Here's how driver Mark Utrech explained the whole thing, modifying pre-production car for the Ojibwe Forest Rally in Minnesota.

I still fail to realize why automakers have to do this. If the engine doesn't sound all that great, then just leave it alone. We'll figure out a way to make it happen. I rather spend money on an exhaust than have this lame bull crap coming out of my speakers...

You must not have read the article. Because the guy that did the study (which I will link below) is a professional engineer in the field of transportation.

In the $48Kish range, what would your top wagon pick be? (Patrick and everybody else)

Does the Golf R still exist? VW's website seems to suggest that it does not.

I'll be honest. I think modern Maseratis are repulsive. The proportions are all wrong, and the bumper grill reminds me of a coked up realator with too much lip stick... Or a koi fish if that doesn't make sense.

As I keep pointing out to people, Malaysia Airlines is wholly-owned by the Malaysian government. It can't go "bankrupt" in any conventional sense since there's no chance that Malaysia is going to get rid of its own national airline in the foreseeable future. The only question is whether they rename it something else…

It's hard to be sure, but I think they swerved left before that big swerve right towards the truck. I think the car driver simply lost control on a wet road, and it's coincidental that there was a truck alongside.

I can see your point. As I watch the video again, Stewart might actually have been trying to roost him with dirt. Who knows... I will be at Watkins today... I wonder how the audience is going to react when he rides around after driver introductions.

The 22B Baby!

A credit check before a test drive? Sounds like a good way to lose business, because I'd surely head to another dealer if that happened.

An 11.2 megabyte animated GIF? Come on. Please stop.

In most open-cockpit series with standing starts, drivers wave their arms to signal a stall on the grid, when the have the mobility to. (Old F1 videos show this more than newer racing where arm restraints are the norm.) I agree that it sounds dangerous, but I suspect that the "get attention so people don't hit me"…

It may have been salvageable until the crane operator got a hold of it. Sheesh.

VFX guy here. The muzzle flash was almost certainly added, but the muzzle smoke looks legit. Very odd choice — I guess they thought it didn't look "real" enough, because Hollywood?

None of the key points you mentioned happened at any of the times you specified.

Yeah, well, a three-decade-old flight simulator predicted me flying a cessna with a 150' wingspan into the Sears tower repeatedly, and that never happened...probably because Mayor Daley destroyed Meigs Field. A wise move Daley, but this isn't over.