So can Mercedes at least make their next V12 not sound like shit?

Let me offer the perspective of someone who went there two years ago, about a week after the first article was published, in the effort to buy his grey 16v scirocco:

I called him wednesday that week to ask if he still had it. he said he did. we negotiated a price of $800 and i told him I would be there between 1-2pm on…

hate to come back from a long comment hiatus just to say this but man, this is a bad headline

I hate this argument because realistically, how many people are going to track their car? Even then, how many of these people are going to be running timed laps? How many drivers are actually going to be able to utilize those precious .05 seconds saved with a quicker shift? Lastly, it doesn’t matter, because it’s…

Joule thief!

C3: Okay, folks, thank you all for gathering today. We called this emergency meeting to discuss the overwhelming press coverage of the new C8 and what must be done to divert attention away from it.

Thank you for showing some love for engineers David. As a former engineer (now nurse), I always felt we never got enough credit for the work we do, in any industry. It’s always the execs, the managers, the marketers, and the finance folk, but never the engineers.

Dear boomers. You are dying off.

Mini Cooper Mallman

It’s ok, I was just being a turd. :P

I’ll be straight with you, no one really cares what kind of car you drive.

Not a successful kidney transplant.

Only Ferrari I’ve ever REALLY wanted. I mean, I’d settle for an F40, but late at night lying in bed i’d regret it.

All 372 of the 250 produced showed up to the 100th anniversary of the 911.  

Something like that. The blue one sold for $40M back in 2010. I had the privilege of photographing it last September at the Lime Rock Historic Festival:

Jeep: Please let me die. I’m old, tired, and have cancer spreading all over my body.

He probably could have Sood them.

You’re right.

There is no room for me on the Internet - I realize that every time I look at my blog’s stats. (Not kidding - the Internet doesn’t resonate with what I write. But that’s okay.)

I suspect it’s because people want to read stuff that reinforces whatever they already believe.

I prefer to be challenged - which…

It’s a huge stretch to say he was “just another person” with an opinion.

That’s kind of like saying that the Beatles were “just another band.”

I say that because, like the Beatles, he was pretty influential, and I don’t think you can argue against that point.

Erin’s story is correct that he was anti-semitic - I don’t…