Guess you will miss Latifi too next year...

The C213 E400/450 Coupe is an excellent car with a rather elegant design (and no b-pillars!), and if you keep it for a few more years while neglecting maintenance, I’m sure it can turn into the money-pit you crave...

Wow, hadn’t noticed the misalignment between the hood opening and the headlights. It’s severe enough to get any OCD person running for comfort with a perfectly smooth minimally panel-gapped 1st gen. Lexus LS400.

The mid-model life facelift of the 2005 2nd gen Acura RL in 2009 was quite spectacularly bad. They had a perfectly fine, if a bit sedate, large sedan, and happily disfigured it with the infamously horrid Acura iron beak... Somehow, they ruined it even further with a final facelift in 2011, before the RL was consigned…

Surprised not to see the brand new Ford Mustang there. It’s stuck with the same type of retrostyling since 2005.

Don’t disagree, but these days renting from a traditional company with nationwide reputation is also fraught with risks one did not expect before, given how these companies are happy to treat customers like garbage with defective and/or badly-tested cost-saving algorithms.

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Working in a Tesla Factory Sounds Like a Nightmare

Let’s hope it fares better than the similarly inspired Caparo T1...

Bringing a gorgeous BMW 3.0 CSi/CSL back to a resplendent and glorious second life is something I aspire to do at some point.

Those nerds can do a lot more than that, spookily...

Yeah, I also don’t think they are trying to emulate the 64/5 model, but they were definitely inspired by the 1967 Mustang fastback for the 5th generation. The headlights and taillights have evolved for the 6th and 7th, but they still followed the general profile of the 1967 model. In fact, the more pronounced hips of…

I’m glad the Mustang is still with us and has not been consigned to the dustbin of history like most coupes in this SUV-dominated era, but its retro-design has been stuck in the 60s for so long it’s becoming a bit of a caricature. From the fifth generation in 2005 until now, it’s all minimal cosmetic changes, at the…

Yep, it shows how ridiculously underdeveloped passenger railway transportation is in the US. I was always shocked at how it was 40% cheaper to fly from Boston to NYC or D.C. than to take Amtrak. Not sure what the rates are these days.

Alas, we will never know. The decision to name the R5 LeCar in the US probably goes down as one of the stupidiest marketing decisions of its time. And in the 80s, they were naming the Renault 11 the Encore, which is not a great name either. Alliance for the Renault 9 at least was anodyne enough and perhaps a reference…

It’s just amazing that the 300, essentially the same as the original 2005 car with improved tech and a few design tweaks, is still with us (with a foray as a Lancia Thema in Italy). It was an excellent car in 2005, but now it just feels like Chrysler/Stellantis are taking their customers for granted.

If they had brought the Renault 5 Turbo 2 to the US, perhaps the Le Car would not have been seen as such a joke (the ridiculous name kind of doomed it from inception, and the reliability did the rest).  

Best Large Car: 2015 Toyota Avalon

This is just fancy Level 2 autonomy requiring that the driver pays attention at all times (something Humans suck at if not engaged in the activity they should be paying attention to). This video shows Level 3 autonomy from Mercedes, which supposedly will drive most of the time, but it will request you to take over if…

Few companies are bold enough to put reverse-opening doors in their crossovers, but Ferrari took up the challenge. The company also claims the doors are electric, and the lack of any visible external handle backs that claim up.