Something tells me the nervous partner is not ever going to fly again after this episode.

Very interesting. What about stainless hardware in aluminum? Does the aluminum corrode enough to suck out the oxygen?

Ha! You should be a Boeing spokesman!

They typical way these car makers cheat, is to burn less DEF fluid during the cheat cycles than during the test cycles. The cheat cycles end up being more fuel efficient because no fuel is used to activate the particulate filters.

It’s not like you run the AC all that often in Germany. If they were going to cheat, wouldn’t they cheat in a way that actually makes sense? I have to believe BMW’s explanation that this is a bug. A bug in the software is far more believable. This is not the kind of thing that anyone not specifically looking for it…

In the future any kind of tax rebate etc has to be tied to up time performance.

He has the presence of mind to immediately back up to make room for the recovery efforts, before traffic has a chance to clog up behind him.

Truckers are not like vacationers. They can’t just decide ‘not to go anywhere’.

Nobody nominated the 2023 Mercedes Sprinter van? It’s now available with AWD here in the US:

When you have a foot of snow on the ground. An Audi All-road will do fine on plowed roads. Unplowed roads are a totally different thing.

The TR6 looks pretty solid. Of course project cars that are taken all apart are nightmarish.

Yup. It’s the Trumpist Kangaroo court.

I feel so bad for Fiat dealers. BTW at $32k, this Fiat 500e is not the cheapest EV. The Nissan Leaf 40kwh starts at $28***.

Sounds like a mealy mouthed excuse I would give at work when I totally forgot to do something.

Yup. Look at their current website. No more PHEV Crosstrek.  It was a very low volume car even when they had it.

Certainly not in the US. Where are you located?

Wow! If there were rear passengers that would have been a disaster.

It would definitely be something with no turbo, no direct injection, no CVT, no batteries, etc, etc. So a manual trans Mitsubishi Mirage would be my only choice.

Except he was en route to Austria. He was just passing through Germany.

As I already said, that one is just a rebadged Toyota BZ4X, so it’s not really a Subaru.