My salesperson at the local luxury brand / rolling accessory sales office is awesome. But their service department sucks. Every time the car goes in for something minor, it comes back worse. In for a brake fluid flush, back with master cylinder reservoir cracked and leaking. In for sunroof alignment, back with…

Judging by the rough hand on the joystick, clearly a manager and not an operator.

Re #2: I’m guessing that high water eventually shorts out the heavy cable running directly from the battery to the stater solenoid. The high flow of current heats up the cable until it or something near it combusts and ignites something near the cable. Then, insto - presto, fire.

Unless you actually work, in which case the stock 12v is a dog.

Great article. Even Moog is no longer that reliable as a quality product. One recent set was not tapped correctly and had to be returned. But one of the replacements from another brand now has some play with less than 5k miles. It is frustrating, especially when a broad price range often covers the exact same part.…

Do those rims actually survive NYC potholes at speed? I’m betting not. So if “survival” is the goal, wouldn’t you want something that is not damaged by New Yorkers who park by braille and potholes that eat $1xxx.00 rims?

Correction: This is the bike you buy if you have more cash than brains and you actually hate motorcycles. There is an ocean of interesting used bikes available for $6k. All the rebel offers is a low seat height and reliability- it is the Yaris of the motorcycle world. Why anyone would recommend spending $6k on one is…

Oh man, the bullshit on this site is getting deep. Back in the day, my old man ordered an extra 1/2 truck for the farm new from the local Ford dealer. It was the light truck used for checking cattle and making parts runs to town.

Stef- Just go buy a used Toureg diesel already and spare us this obsession with a luxury-branded tow vehicle.

Truly astonishing because engines commonly overheat and spontaneously explode at 7,000 feet above sea level.

Except for the square cut on the leading edge of the hood. And thankfully, that design element appears to have been eliminated in the new design language appearing in the new 5 and upcoming 3.

It looks like the Volvo tractor that was ceremoniously hauling the non-autonomous Volvo XCs around SF on a flatbed. So, now they have a van trailer. And it may be hauling high-value farm and ranch supplies. Like straw bales... And a tent...

About time. It is 2017. Many states get along just fine with out those absurd inspections. No, David, wheels are not just falling off because Hal down at the local inspection racket didn’t give things a once over.

Just because you achieve a certain outcome, it does not mean that you achieved it because it priority. In this instance, the ability to achieve this lap time may be incidental to the prioritization of other things that happen to be complimentary to lap times.

True. But lots of maps will over fuel at WOT and generate significant smoke but the truck burns relatively clean at anything less than WOT.

Ha. Point taken.

Whether or not the debate was “silly” turns upon whether one believes that “intent” is an easy element to prove.

Objection!

Why would anyone want to know anything about a new Honda Rebel?

The BMW 3.0 diesel is an engineering marvel. Massive torque arriving early and staying table flat throughout the power band makes for effortless high speed travel and turbine-like acceleration from 60-140 MPH- all while still returning amazing MPG efficiency.