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I ride my aggressively set up Cervelo S5 for about 1.5 miles on the street to get to the trail. It’s not the BEST to do, but I’m not going to put it in the back of my wagon just to drive a couple of miles, park, and ride. Seems silly. I’ve ridden my P2 down to a local loop we do as well, but that’s a bit scarier with

It’s just absolutely irresponsible! When I drive, it’s phone away, no distractions. I just bought a motorcycle and I’m worried about getting absolutely splattered across the tarmac. 

I love driving and have several cars, but I also bike around my city a fair amount. I am not exaggerating when I say that over half of the time I bike by a car or look through a window to try to make eye contact or make sure the driver sees me in the bike lane, the person is looking down at their phone. I am terrified

Those are the Audi “Flat Fives”, and are pretty hard to find. I found them on CL for $400 for all 4 (didn’t ask where they came from, other than an A8). They were powder coated black and needed to be redone, but they were well worth it. I had each completely refinished in their original color.

I live in Washington DC and I jumped on some larger lower-profile wheels (going from 17 to 18) someone was selling off an A8 for my A3. I’ve cracked one rim thanks to a pothole helpfully obscured by the darkness at the entrance to a tunnel, and parallel parking close to the curb is always an exercise in precision and

As one commenter here has noted, Russell is absolutely the clear choice for Mercedes. But, as far as Gasly’s contract goes, he hasn’t signed yet and is still available (as of 28 August), but AT love him and I’m sure he’ll most likely stay with them. 

I love Gasly and think he’s one of the most consistent drivers on the grid. He seems to have the drive and (crazily enough), I think his young fire could also help push Hamilton, who always seems to lose his drive when he’s not in first.

Props for the diagram - I reckon you’re probably right on this one, now that I think about it. I do still think that for someone that has no other option for mobility, it could be a good deal, as long as they understand the inherent issues.

For winters I slap my stock wheels with Blizzaks on and it’s an all weather dream machine. I’ve done everything from ikea runs to Home Depot excursions in it. More than enough room, and with the APR II tune you’ve got 300hp (the correct amount) and you’ll need to watch your foot or you’ll soon be cresting 100 on the

Right on the Audi, but wrong model. Go A3! I did, with some mods. Spent $9k on the car and about $7k fixing it up and modifying it. It drives like a brand new car now.

Mobility-specific cars are VERY expensive usually, and they’re generally shitty BraunAbility minivans. This is a killer deal for a car purpose built for those that have mobility issues.

Car’s never been tuned, but it has apparently been in a front-end airbag deployed crash! (Thanks carfax, and user @drewsro)

I wish The Drive would just buy Jalopnik out already. Can you imagine? A mix of the commenters here (some of the best on the internet, short of Reddit), the off the wall articles that Torch writes, NPoND, and then all the in-depth car review stuff on The Drive, alongside the fantastic military stuff. I’d DEFINITELY

BINGO! Knew something was up with this. Not disclosing something like that when you’re selling a car is SUPER shitty, and I believe illegal in some states? I’m not sure on that last point, but regardless, absolute CP. Stay away.

I smell something fishy here. A grenaded transmission perhaps? Some kind of VIN number chicanery? Something is not right here.

I hope I’m not stating the obvious here, but...why not just get a manual version of this car? I’m pretty sure they were built and sold here as manuals.

I’m gonna disagree on the coilovers - the suspension on an MR2 I bought a few years ago had basically turned to dust from lack of care. The coilovers I had put on are fantastic - a little firm, but they’re good for a sports car and offer great handling. Coilovers on a 7 series? Yeah, dumb. But on a purpose built

Imagine being the guy that shows up to the racing school and passes on the Mustang and thinks “yeah…I’m Steve McQueen, but with the kids in the back”.

This thing’ll go straight from unibody to many pieces as soon as you drive it off. Is the battery just…sitting there? Where’s the driver side brake light? This thing is a bucket of bolts, but I’m sure some boomer will buy it.

In my experience the broken BMW parts usually go in the back of the truck.