DB9's are surprisingly reliable, but you could be forgiven for thinking the opposite, given the reputation of British luxury and sports cars for breaking down.

We need a Chrysler 300 Hellcat too. 

They could make driver’s cars with good handling, comfort and available manual transmissions, catering for the car buyers that BMW have abandoned and now refer to as “boomers”.

Counterpoint: Higher gas tax will just mean everyone has less money than they would otherwise. This is obvious.

The production team kept the parts. That’s why the abandoned Lancia still has doors on it.

16 year old’s have usually never driven more than one or two cars, let alone something that handles like on older BMW. And even if they have, they won’t have anything to compare it to. They won’t be interested in how a car drives until they drive something that’s noticeably better than what they’re used to.  

They’re not a safety hazard any more. On every Mercedes since the early 2000s (possibly earlier), they have been mounted to a springy mount, so that if you hit someone, it just folds away, and doesn’t spring back until the pedestrian has bounced off the hood.

If only BMW would go back to making cars like the E34 again.

If air pollution was really the cause of death, everyone in the area would also be dead, because they would be subject to an identical amount of air pollution. The cause of death was severe asthma and acute respiratory failure, which kills people everywhere, not just polluted areas.

Your 335i had the N54 engine, which is widely regarded as one of BMW less reliable engines. The problem you had sounds like it could be carbon building up inside the engine, common with direct injection engines. The N/A (non-M) BMW’s are pretty reliable, as are the diesels (N47 aside).  

For BMW’s, I use https://www.mdecoder.com/

“Frankly, I’m surprised a unibody vehicle with a cut and welded C-pillar would even be allowed to be back on the road, let alone sold as a vehicle with minor imperfections.”

Fords decision to stop making cars that aren’t Mustangs.

A Cadillac Escalade may be worth looking at

It uses the N52 engine. $9900 is approximately double what these usually go for. And it’s not even in that great condition, with cheap aftermarket wheels. Pass.

Drove a Nissan Juke last year, base model with a manual. The dashboard would make a vibration noise every time you went above 4k rpm. Which is where the revs are at 75 mph. Even if the dashboard didn’t vibrate, it was still very noisy at highway speeds. Only had 9k miles. It had overly-light steering, lots of body…

Shitboxes aren’t what they used to be, but they still exist. Examples: Mitsubishi Mirage, Nissan Versa, Tesla Model S, 3, X, and Y, and the Chevy Equinox. They may not be super basic, but they are either of very low quality, bad to drive, or both

Last night, I photoshopped the new M4 and posted it on a facebook group. Someone in the comment section took my design cleaned it up a bit and made the colors match properly. This is the end result- I think it actually looks good, even with the headlights.

I’d love to have seen the reactions to this among the Mercedes executives at the time. 

When young drivers kill people, it’s not usually a pedestrian. Its the people in other cars, or their own. And, to state the obvious, just because a car can exceed the speed limit, doesn’t mean it’s fast. You’d have to be insane to think a Prius is a fast car.