So everyone is just giving a pass to the agency that erroneously, “found a trace of something on the car”??? Their error isn’t what caused the delay? I mean the car was just going to get towed, pretty much affecting no one but the car’s owner before they pulled that shit out.

One of the things you learn, if you are ever involved in union negotiations, is that the union reps, who have no actual ability to deliver, can promise the workers anything they want while the company, who actually has the ability to deliver, can promise absolutely nothing to the workers.

It’s a styling miss. Not that it is bad but it doesn’t have the character of the Z3, Z4 gen1 or 2gen or Z8. This looks like an S2000 to me and I don’t think that is good for BMW. In particular the older cars all had better more pleasing proportions to my eyes and the lines all swooped in the other direction which made…

Apparently it will have 380ish HP in the U.S.

Did these look cool back then or did they just get caché over being a Bond car? I’ve never been able to stand the rear view of these.

1) It’s not going to be a sizable impact if the vehicles are traveling in more or less the same direction at the same speed.
2) It’s not going to be a significant slow down in speed/drag, at least not right away, once the Mercedes tires have lost static friction with the road. After they pop, then things will probably…

Up until their best-by date, that is. Material choices for newer cars make so many parts become maintenance items with a lifetime of 10 years or 100K miles it seems like. Basically plastic becomes brittle. Once you cross that threshold the car becomes an unreliable money pit. Oh, and due to the interrelatedness of the…

This is disappointing. The 1st gen Z4 was muscular. This is just, meh. It’s trying too hard to incorporate the latest styling trends that will have it looking dated before it is discontinued for the next gen. Aside from all the vents and angles up front, the single thing I hate the most about this car is the feature…

That is not a design that will stand the test of time. The 1st gen Z4 has aged much better than this ever will.

It’s mainly a lack of demand, not a lack of ability. The whole reason these things got mothballed was because satellite surveillance was considered as good or better (not always of course). As much as these things cost, building better wasn’t going to happen “just because”. Certainly from a research perspective, work…

Later spec. calls for hand-made artisanal truffle oil.

Mine looks like this:

Right on. Anyone who thinks VCs let the startup bros take home $200K/year are smoking something illegal. Never have, never will.

Transmissions of that era are not in any way, “smart”, so no detection of “being in two gears” or any such. On the the shift mechanism could be disconnected on the way to the transmission. That would be nice but probably also understood and rejected. Barring that the shift selector inside the transmission might have…

Someone must build this. 8's are cheap.

I think you are confused. Less than 2% of U.S. oil comes from Saudi Arabia. They import more than 4x that from Canada.

I test drove one hoping that it would offer the fun of a manual to me and the practicality of an automatic so my wife could drive my car. Sadly it offered neither. It was “herky-jerky” at low speeds to the point where an unskilled driver could never be comfortable and it never offered the engagement of a manual. It…

Considering it was never driven if that doesn’t top $130,000 (DJIA from 2004 to now is up about 2.5x) , which I doubt it will, it was a horrible investment. And that isn’t even counting storage and registration costs. Why would anyone do that?

That’s not always true. Even normal repairs (like a clutch replacement) can easily exceed the market value of an old car. If there are less than $6500 of repairs needed on that car I’d be very surprised.

The Z4M Coupe is the last best M3.