The noise level part is critical here. A car with a damaged flex pipe might be louder than stock and reason to pull people over. Which people? those who have inexpensive old cars because they are already tight on cash. The problem is that you get pulled over and now have to prove you didnt modify the car simply…

God in Heaven. I wonder what they would have done to me when I bought that $200 VW Beetle without an exhaust as a young mechanic, and welded up a freehand one from a coffee can and some old 2 1/2" scrap pipe? Jail time? FFS!

Oh snap! That’s what I get for trying to find something different than what Getty Images has. I was wondering why it looked a bit different and chalked it up me being tired. Oof.

Amongst the thousands of pictures of the Ever Given, Mercedes somehow chose one of the previous one that was scrapped before the one that got stuck got commissioned. And I only just learned of that ships’s existence because I saw that picture, but it doesn’t seem to have done anything remarkable during it’s service…

For the young’ns here, the essence of that quote is attributed to the esteemed Peter Egan from a 1983 issue of Road & Track.

That would be the Drive, where a lot of former Jalopnik writers end up.  Kristen Lee just joined up over there, actually.

As of 2 days ago, I now have 2 PHEVs in my garage. The current BEVs will not work for my use case. I’m sure in the future they will. At this point I’d need to have 2 BEVs and 2 gas cars to meet my family’s needs. I feel that 2 PHEVs makes way more sense. 

Exactly, virtue signaling from bottom feeders

Maybe you didn’t understand...it’s a BMW. It doesn’t have turn signals. Duh.

I was actually involved in some of the initial development. AFAIK, I’m the only one to have driven one on track at full speed. Granted, it didn’t have the final engine and a lot of other improvements that came from the test, but it had good potential.

I’ve owned about 20 cars, but have somehow managed to never trade one in. I’ve let them quote me a time or too, but I always do several $1,000 better selling private.  I always try and buy private too, especially because here in AZ you avoid sales tax.  It’s tough to do though, especially on newer/nicer vehicles.

The notion that having a cost cap might help Ferrari, the team that consistently underachieves while having the biggest budget, is hilarious.

True. God, how I wish it wasn’t true.

ROFL! Personally, I am a very devote atheist. But my family is Episcopalian and I was baptized into it. But somehow in the ‘70s my mother became a Mormon. And she won’t tell me the details - just waives it off as “it was the 70's”. I only found out because one day three nice ladies of a certain age showed up on my…

In case anyone wants to actually see the cool tires mentioned in the headline without going on a fucking goose chase:

So, also in Georgia, is this Gem. Under budget, just as reliable as Mercedes’s recommendation (same basic vehicle) and only 63k miles.

I did mean the H2, but for clarification, in regards to top speed. I was thinking about the 1990s speed wars and maybe that Suzuki would want to retake the top speed crown.

Hayabusa.

They still make the Hayabusa???

I think Salem would go to Battleship Cove. I remember a couple years ago when she was having rent issues with her pier owners, their was semi serious talk of moving her to Battleship cove.