Yeah not really all that different from people who buy into autopilot/FSD and get into crashes thinking it can drive itself versus other manufacturers that don’t oversell adaptive cruise control.

Those are close too, these are the Maybach wheels

Great job on them making an actual good design, shame it’s too good looking to make it to production with their current lineup. Those wheels though, they’re a blatant copy of Maybach’s wheels...

He said manual or a good auto/flappy paddle, and you can get them with the big fixed paddles and the zf 8-speed which is the best torque converter auto out there. There’s plenty of them out there for that price off-lease that are still new enough to get a Mopar warranty.

Aw damn I was hoping someone here got mine. If you’re thinking about any upgrades AWE makes an awesome exhaust for them.

Take a serious look at the Fiat’s Italian sister Giulia. 280 hp, big fixed paddles, one of the lighter small sedans out there, surprisingly reliable and cheap Mopar extended warranties. They’re easy to find around the $25k mark with decent miles but you could push it closer to $30k for a CPO one too.

Exactly. Any car with normal suspension and a normal amount of miles for that age probably needs its shocks replaced too.

At the time my BMW was the only car we had out of 3 with monostable stalks, and through all of my wife’s cars she never had them. Excluding a classic car we had at one point we never owned two cars of the same brand at a time. They all had different shifters (including one Mercedes with the electric column shifter),…

My point is the criticism to it always comes off as someone waving their hands around saying they don’t get it. I understand if you’re say working at a dealership and drive a lot of different cars day in and day out and get confused once. But every car has something that works a bit differently, hell shifters are all…

I just traded a 2014 335i that the dealer sent to auction about a month ago. Is yours an AWD manual black/black by chance?

This always comes up as a worry, that you’ll always be chasing after repairs. If it’s done right, that’s likely not going to be the case. Fact is people buy these well-used right around the time they get of failure age, so having a failure right away understandably feels like a problem. Or you only fix a part of it…

Yeah “would consider” is completely different. It’s like being tempted by the Temu ad and clicking the link, then realizing you better buy the real thing from Amazon instead...

Damn I just got my first Alfa a month ago and ever since have been tempted to also get an older one for fun. I would even rock a cheap 164.

Every car we’ve sold we had legitimate reasons for other than being tired of them, so there’s no true regret. But I definitely miss all of them in different ways. The 2016 GTI we leased I probably miss the most, we didn’t buy it out because it was in an accident but it’s a driving experience we always compare other…

I used it all the time, I don’t get why it’s infuriating either. Like my comment here on the BMW turn signals, if you own the car and you learn where it is that should be the end of it, it’s not like you completely forget how your car works every time you get in.

The BMW turn signal thing genuinely baffles me, not because of how they work but because how people are so clueless. I get if it takes a couple of days/weeks to get it, but you own the car. You need to be completely obtuse to truly not learn your car over years of ownership. And they always bring up lane changes but…

You only get that benefit if you’re able to park near the stadium though. No advantage if you need to stay at a campsite outside of town.

I’m sure he does, he mentions Jalopnik sometimes in his videos/podcast and references articles from here sometimes. And I’m assuming the reason he’s not on here anymore is just time. He’s a lawyer, author, and has a youtube channel that’s also a podcast that’s twice daily videos. Others are similar, Matt Farah has his…

Honestly though if you’re traveling for weekend stuff like that what do you need beyond clothes and tailgate gear that a normal sedan/wagon can hold? The RV necessitates a lot more stuff just for the purposes of being an RV that you live out of, if you’re staying in a hotel you don’t need to bring your own pots and…

I know lots of people who are retirement age or getting there that spent way too much on either a class A RV or a trailer plus a truck to pull it that ended up getting used only a couple of times per year. My grandparents bought a class A, then downgraded to a Sprinter Chassis, then back to class A because they wanted…