Love the small details that add up to a significant decision. Driving your hot tires through the marbles to pick up weight? Hilarious. Should there be a 1 KG buffer above and below the minimum weight? Maybe.  

Can’t speak to that Mondeo but I always had a soft spot for the Ford Contour SVT with the small V6 and 5 speed manual. Maybe that V6 was shared with the Probe GT (both were 2.5)? I had a 98 Probe GT and the Contour seemed like the 4 door version. Anyway, the X type sucks and Fords best sedan was actually a European…

Is anyone here a marine biologist?!

The guy who had the Mondial, Maserati Biturbo, Mercedes CLC, Jaguar X Type, and BMW XM was the best. It could be any of those and as much as I hate the aggressively ugly XM I gotta go with the Jaguar X Type. Just ugly and pathetic offering from a company that at least has always made pretty cars, if not the best…

Since I find the SLS so ungainly and ugly I tend to box it out of my mind, but thank you for including the glorious 6.2L V8. I was going to attribute this engine in the C63 AMG since as the smallest and most juvenile this model got the loudest versions, even thought it was the lowest HP. It was glorious. Headed off to…

Good point and yes I got what you are saying. I guess having a manual car I am used to keeping my right hand closer to the shifter for daily driving. 

I am 9 and 3 on the track. In the road, especially long highway stretches, I can drive with my left hand at 9 and my right elbow resting on my center console/arm rest while my hand rests on the bottom of the wheel. And yes sometimes I drive on a highway stretch with one hand on the wheel. Doesn’t change the idea that…

With electronic shifters you can do any design. I have driven my friends S class with the column shifty- it definitely felt a little dainty for such a big car. I have had my own Audi A8s with the pull back, parking button shifter (D4 gen). It was fine. I drove a Range Rover now with the rotary. It’s fine. I have…

Where else to go? I read The Drive and it’s generally decent with a decent community of commenting.  But I have been a Gawker Media guy for so damn long…

Well you could bail out but then you run the risk of getting eaten by the sharks. Or maybe the sharks can come into the Jeep and eat you anyway because the doors are off.

Modern (last twenty years) Lexus LS for the win besides a modern Rolls. Won’t repeat what was already mentioned but amazingly well engineered and built car. The American lucobarges from the 70s to 2000s are terrible- the suspension was horrific- uncontrolled wallowing is NOT comfortable. In fact it can make some…

It doesn’t do that for you because you are you and not white rich Elon Musk. You realize that the current SCOTUS is completely hypocritical and they will find any rationale, bad science, incorrect facts, to justify the outcome they want. So it’s fine for Elon, not fine for the commoners. 

Tell me you’ve been here for quite a while without telling me anything. Oldie but goodie. 

I have commented before that classy analog, even watch-like, gauges will come back in at the top of the market as a reaction to boring screens. Sure as shit, the new Bugatti does that and takes it to 11 with their new gauge cluster. Give me the classic 5 gauge layout any day over this. Ugly fins, hybrid, no manual,…

My jets aren’t hot so no need to cool them. My response stands- Volvo had software issues and did the right thing whereas Tesla is testing their software and hardware on the unsuspecting public. Volvo operates as a traditional car manufacturer (and may have some liabilities associated with that culture in regards to…

And when Tesla puts out a shitty product, releases software that essentially is being beta tested on the real world, or has myriad other quality control issues, you get a text from moron Elon when he damn well feels like responding that doesn’t nothing to fix the issues or deal with disgruntled customers. And he banks…

The GOP is happily passing laws right here in the US to encourage child labor.

Definitely have not been on the pickup truck owners forums. I am speaking from my own interactions with truck guys (admittedly limited- I am a north Jersey guy living in the NYC area so this comes more from my time in college 25 years ago meeting guys from across the nation who all had certain truck beliefs). But…

I think it’s more about pick up truck loyalty. You’re a Chevy guy, a Dodge guy, or a Ford guy. You would never complain about your truck because that would be going against the cult. If F150 or Silverado were their own brand they would also be at the top of the rankings because the owners refuse to believe that they…

Sigh.