Given that up until the i3 and i8 all thy did was research and experimental I wouldn't worry to much about reliability. And even now they kind admitted that those cars are projects to figure out how to do it properly.

Wouldn't any (non-electric) engine be a power plant?

Many swaps from petrol to electric keep the transmission and clutch in. A guy I know 'won' an ev to use for a year that was an Audi A3 with an electric engine and batteries swapped in. He said he would leave it in 4th all the time while driving, except for backing up. But every other gear worked just as fine, Lower…

I've only yet seen one electric BMW been broken down, and that was a car sharing 1 series coupe that was parked miles from the next charging spot. They had a guy with a generator come and charge the car. Do they actually break down a lot?

Yes I read up about it after I asked :D seems weird to put grooves in the combustion chamber when you normally want it to be as smooth and even as possible.

I think it won't clean the carbon as much as it sucks oil vapore into the combustion cheer and burns it and maybe also suck some still liquid oil and tiny hard bits aswell. Also the egr probably is inactive at wide open throttle, so you stay safe anyway ;)

Are theese grooves on the valve seat?

So do they actually call these things Sportwagen over there?

For the last day or so, I had the thought that the guy he punched could just be an absolutely annoying idiot himself. The stories say it was a producer, when it actually was a production assistant of sorts. So Clarkson punched somebody lower down the food chain. And as far as I can see, this guy was somehow…

DSG equipped cars should have the true manual option with 2 clutch pedals and 2 gear levers.

"Ich liebe Herrn Preuninger" would be correct since that's that construction uses accusativ. But that's a thing most Germans don't get right either, so...

If you try and fiddle your 2 wheeled transportation device through the same lane as a vehicle that's almost as wide as said lane, then you're the road raging one.

Is it really not locked? In all cars I know that have this pattern you have to go into neutral position if you would change from 5th to R, actually that's true for any hear, but in all the other gears you pass the neutral spot while doing so. I didn't try doing this, but even when I'm stationary and turned off engine…

So what you say is, that they sell the Vito and changed the name?

I took a smart 42 to a full service gas station once when Shell (do you know She'll there?) offered this, and the guy asked me how acces the engine bay. Since it's in the read inside/under the cars interior he neither checked the oil nor did he check coolant or window washer liquid, which would have been up front…

That's a Mohawk tire!

My parents had their Irish wolfhound in their Z3 coupe a couple of times when the wagon was occupied otherwise. It's incredibly practical for a sports car. Only downside is, that they kept the wall between passenger compartment and luggage area, that eats up a lot of usable space and isn't really necessary in a car…

I guess it'll look way different and much uglier when it finally hits the streets. They'll do something about the lower front lip to make it more friendly to pedestrians you hit, it'll have smaller wheels at least for the base model, for Europe id expect a 1 litre 68 horsepower engine or something similar, maybe they…

In a way, yes. They sell whole cars based on BMW models, tweaking the engine and suspension, putting in luxurious interior. And they also sell stuff for the lesser bmw models, like suspension kits (with eibach parts afaik), steering wheels and stuff with their logo and rims. The rims are incredibly gorgeous in my…

Autobahnring around Berlin, about 120miles, I'd say about half of which aren't limited. Any car that's stable at high speeds and can do the distance at wide open throttle.