Jesus christ its so cute! Its like an angry lion cub “oooh look at the fuzzy wuzzy little cutie pie” “shut up I’m fierce” “ah coochie coochie coo”

They haven’t rectified their ways at all. Toyota built enthusiast cars on their own back then.

Depends on the person really. I am convinced I would have zero issue DD’ing an Elise.

And agreed, collisions shouldn’t be a factor in this lol.

That ‘long objects’ part is going to get you answers you didn’t want.

Lack of storage space is often a deal breaker for people that can only have one car. Yes we like fun, but sometimes life gets in the way. Besides, it’s not really hard to have some trunk space in a mid-engined car. If my Elise can have a trunk that can fit groceries (or a toolbox, a floorjack, an air compressor,…

Neutral: Who are the women who have guided your automotive life?

Neutral: I can blame much of my car obsession on my mother. She used to be an advanced driving instructor (offensive, defensive, accident avoidance, VIP protection, etc.) and she shared a Spitfire race car with her father. I pretty much grew up at a race track. And I was around cars even before that: when she was 8…

Not to bore you all but in college I did new car set-up at a Chrysler-Plymouth dealer. Cars came off the truck with heavy plastic covers on the seats, dash, carpet, steering wheel etc. Part of the set-up was to remove the stuff, check and tighten various interior fasteners, check fluids etc. There were occasions…

Not that bad, but my Escape company car has the bottom of the driver’s A-pillar trim mounted over the dash, but the passenger’s side has the dash mounted over the pillar trim. Its not a big deal, but its like when you do a bad wallpaper job and there’s that one seam that’s not aligned quite right, and it becomes the…

Speaking as a BMW Inventory Manager, the vehicles are sent on a truck with only a clear plastic sheet on them, through which the seat color is visible.

This is actually not uncommon, for any car company with small’ish volume. Basically if the manufacturer has cars on the assembly line and a component manufacturer did not get them the required parts to finish a build (IE seats/headliner/etc) in the color needed, they will not stop production for hours/days/weeks. they…

That explains the installation, but these things are supposed to go to a quality check for precisely that kind of reason. In the name of efficiency it’s the assemblers’ job to install everything they’re told and do it quickly with minimal questioning, but at quality check or prep those things are supposed to be…

They even messed that up since the seat base is white.

So, you’re saying that Stevie Wonder was working QC on that X5?

In a past life I was a material planner for the company that built the seats for BMW in Spartanburg.

My Father just bought a 2017 Ford F-150 Sport 3.5l Ecoboost that had an amusing ‘defect’ like this. His interior was all black except for the driver’s-side rear door panel. That panel was light gray.

Perhaps the seat maker started it, but the Quality Control inspector’s sole job is to make sure that this kind of thing does not get out the door.

If this BMW dealer was a true salesman, he would say it was a one off special edition with a two tone interior and increase the price by $5K

I have one even better than this.