Why? People go through automatic washes all the time with all kinds of cars and they’re in fine shape, and car people act like the act of using a brush car wash is essentially sandblasting a car, when it’s not. My 9 year old BMW has been through almost exclusively brush car washes since it was new since the car dealer…

Honestly at this point I’d just configure it as available at MSRP.

Hot take, just go to an automatic car wash. I’ve hand-washed each of my cars maybe 3-4 times, other than that it’s always an automatic wash, most of the time with brushes.

I mean, that’s the smart thing for Porsche to do. When I was selling cars, the vast majority of Macan trades were high annual miles. Like 20-30k per year high. We put almost 30k on ours the first year we had it. I’m not an EV buyer to begin with but we love our Macan, and if they went EV only for it they’d lose a lot…

More like Coveralleone Carlucci, amiright?

I’m not sober but the Lagunitas Hoppy Refresher slaps. You got it exactly right, it’s like a Lacroix for adults. Whenever I see them at a fast casual place for lunch I’ll grab one and enjoy on my lunch break.

My wife’s last car, granted it was a Mercedes, but the cheapest model available, apparently had a particulate filter for the exhaust. Sure it might affect some engineering R&D to get it to fit, but it’s not like it’s a huge cost to add them. Sure there might be another maintenance item way down the road but that’s not…

I grew up with my dad having a Ram that had the suicide rear doors, but since it was a time when kids were out of booster seats at like 7 years old and sitting in the front wasn’t considered unsafe if there was no airbag my sister and I would sit up front. The passenger airbag could be turned off with a key. You can’t…

They must only really make money on memberships and the big ticket items that don’t have a big discount. We only use our membership for gas and big stock-up trips so every single time we get “flagged” for someone to try to sell us the executive membership.

We’ve found a few of the newer Lacroix flavors to be really good. The key lime, lemoncello, and hibiscus are particularly good, they all have an extra almost vanilla flavor that really brings out the other flavors.

It’s not the first S-class plug-in hybrid though, it’s not even the first in the USA. The last-gen S had the S550e which was RWD-only and was an actual plug-in paired with the 3.0T V6 from the 450.

Also nice if you have a sore back but don’t want to get sweaty. As far as I know MB, BMW, and Porsche are the only ones to do that.

The S-Class is the only one that gets the “standard” grille with a hood ornament. Every other Benz has the tri-star on the grille, but with different grille slats depending on performance level.

I’m hoping they’ll put the electrified I6 in it. That one’s got 429 hp so it would fit in power-wise, and heritage-wise since they had I6'es for quite a while in Europe.

I find that hard to believe unless you’re 24, haven’t dailied a manual since you were 23, or live in Illinois.

If they gave it to us with a goddamn turbo 4-cyl then yes, I don’t even care what transmission it would have.

I immediately though of relish as the top condiment. You only really use it with hot dogs, and if you don’t have hot dogs often either you probably don’t have it already or what you have is expired. Ketchup and mustard are always in the fridge, so unless you’re planning a big cookout you probably don’t need more.

That doesn’t magically mean that all cars will have that stuff though. Lots of low income people live and work in cities where there’s more pedestrians and many drive older cars that don’t even have bluetooth. Add the distraction of phones into that (for both drivers and pedestrians) and overall careless driving and…

We booked a trip to Ireland for our honeymoon and had a car reserved. I specifically requested a manual, but I guess they assumed being American that we’d want an auto and switched it. They were able to get us a manual when we got there and asked us what we wanted. I asked for a Dacia Sandero. The guy laughed at me,…

Our local grocery store Lunds and Byerlys has their own kettle chips and they have tavern mustard as one of their main flavors which is pretty damn good.