I know, surely that’s the ultimate Turing test!

I remember coming across some 1980s Brazilian car magazine that had a comparison between the Chevrolet Opala and the Ford Corcel II.

I keep my clear water bottle in the driver’s door pocket, away from direct sunlight and too close to any surface for any focusing light effect to cause damage.

Purely anecdotal, but I’ve only seen about 5 or 6 of the 4-series monstrosities around my area (a fairly large US urban area) since they were released. So, either the owners are buying them and only running them at night after everyone has gone to sleep, or otherwise no one around here is buying them. And yes,…

Sounds amazing! I have managed to be within an inch of a 250 GTO and talk briefly with the owner. He had bought it in the 80s for less than $1 million...

Shouldn’t people be more alarmed that it was just by pure unadulterated luck that that flying wheel did not kill a bunch of spectators?

Love the Chrysler Turbine. This is my own picture from when I visited the then still open Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Along with the Virgil Exner’s designed Chrysler Special by Ghia, it was my favorite car in the museum.

“Best car for getting laid” sounds like the Jalopnik question none of us think they would pose, but we would all be there for the comments... As for objective criteria an engineer would accept, as opposed to a flurry of anecdotal or putative evidence:

Gotta be the OG: Introduced in April 17, 1964 at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, NY. Sold 400k units in the first year, 1 million units in the 18 months after launch, and almost 3 million units from 1964-73 for the first generation. It's the best-selling Mustang of all time.

Same. I put it down to the murkiness of who has jurisdiction for safety conditions of level II autonomy testing, and the usual specter of malevolence ascribed to any new federal regulations in the US. The latter made NHTSA took a “wait and see” approach while local city governments gave carte blanche to Tesla, Waymo,…

Great point, I was going to say that it’s almost as if BMW decided to make the 5-series compete with the single-car niche that is the Toyota Crown, which in person is actually a surprisingly nice design, perhaps because it is unabashedly a raised sedan/crossover thingy, and the last one of those we had, the Accord…

Gonna be blunt here. This is the worst looking BMW 5 series ever made.

Kind of remarkable that they made the RWD-based 5-series look like the FWD-based 2-series. That side profile has some serious FWD vibes. the BMW design team is just collecting success after success...

Hey, 70 is the new 50! A good workout to keep knee and hip joints moving may even help... That being said, I did miss that the OP said he wanted this to be a daily-driver and a Z1 is not practical enough for that regardless of age.

Yep, the pedestrian had clearly started walking on the crosswalk before the Tesla reached it with time for it to safely apply the brakes. I suspect the FSD algorithm may simply ignore the side of the crosswalk that is not in the lane of the moving vehicle or the camera image reconstruction failed to recognize the full…

Hard to be cooler than on a BMW Z1 with your doors down. And it’s only $69,999

Pretty much, always particularly disgusting when this opportunistic bastard uses “freedom of speech” and “freedom of religion” arguments to crudely curtail speech and human rights, but the more unprincipled and hypocritical you are, the more people will vote for you so they can “stick it to the system”, whatever that…

Hell no!

Dear me, he is on a roll to become the most toxic person in the world. Someone should remind him that even with all his money he would need to rewrite the Constitution to become US president, so all this BS and dog whistles trying to appeal to far-right nutters (erm.. voters) is unlikely to bring him the power he…

The fact that he started it with “Soros reminds me of Magneto”, where we all know Magneto is villainous Holocaust survivor, and then followed it with