Several of these, the Ferrari in particular, are simple NOT sportscars at all. They are Grand Touring cars, and that is an entirely different kettle of fish which should be judged by very different standards. A Ferrari 400 automatic is a perfectly lovely and comfortable way to blast from Paris to Nice down the motorway…

Better cars have been able to do these things for about 40 years now.

I can afford a NICE Viper. I don’t want one period. Yuck - like a Corvette but waaay more redneck.

It’s not just you with the parents busing kids. I’m from a physically small town in Maine. The LONGEST bus route in town might take a max of 25 minutes to get you to school. Yet my best friend and his wife, who live in that town today with two kids, ALWAYS drive the dumplings to and from school. I cannot even imagine.…

Not even remotely true. Here in God’s Waiting Room, FL, where the Cryptkeepers roam free, it is not at all unusual to encounter Grammy or Grampy rolling along dark after dark. And usually a flash of the lights gets them to fix that.

Same here, on every point. Communication with other drivers is very important. 

I love Paris. But I hate DRIVING in Paris. It is a full-contact sport. Might be fun if you had a car that you don’t give a shit about (the default French attitude to ALL cars) but every time I have been there I have been in MY brand-new BMW. I didn’t mind driving in Italy, the Italians care about their cars and don’t…

Got to love how France treats it’s far-flung bits and pieces as no different from mainland France. I think if I was going to go to the Olympics, I would rather watch surfing in Tahiti than the rest of it in Paris in July/August.

If the fee isn’t in the original contract for the lease, the dealer is almost certainly SOL. If it’s a different dealer doing the buyout, they should be compensated by the leasor (and my understanding is that they typically already are), as they are acting as agent for the leasor. I would chalk it up as an opportunity…

You could have sat next to the woman who tried to get an emotional support peacock on the plane. That would have been fun to watch!

Which is why the smart parents got their kids the slow version.

The connected crap in my two ‘11 BMWs is long dead due to this. I could not possibly care less. Not something I have much interest in for free, I didn’t even activate it while it WAS free in those cars or my GTI that also came with it, and ZERO interest in paying for it after that. I have a PHONE, my car doesn’t need…

Works for me.

Pretty sure that to the average idiot (and this guy seems to be a rather above average idiot) “autopilot” means it can fly/drive itself, even if some of us know better. And for sure Tesla marketed it that way for a LONG time, with a *wink*, *wink* that you still needed to pay attention, and Elon has said that himself…

Having owned a couple of old diesel cars, it really isn’t. You put your foot to the floor and just go - people will actually not hit you. And chances are, some idiot going even slower is going to be in front of you holding you up anyway despite having 300hp underfoot.

The German Army and Mercedes didn’t find those gauges necessary, why do you need them?

A deep cleaning - so the cleaning crew actually put cleaner on the rags they swiped around? I kid, I kid. Well, maybe I kid...

I have seen FAR more children running wild in airports than dogs. In fact, I have never seen a dog running wild in an airport. Children should be leashed if they can’t control themselves. Or caged.

Possibly. It ran up from economy.

ROFL! Unless that dog is an actual, documented service animal, she hasn’t a leg to stand on. And her cancer came back because she was away from her fur baby for a minute? Uh no dear, that’s not how that works at all. The sad part is JetBlue will probably give this wingnut some settlement money to go away.