Back in the mid 70’s when convertibles were being dropped from a number of American model lines, the final being the 76 Eldorado there was a column in either Road and Track or Car and Driver by one their astute automobile journalists, maybe David E. Davis about the reasons for their demise. They didn’t blame the…

Needs more stars.

Our BMW was the first new car I bought where I actually used our credit union rather than the dealership. Granted, this was a few months ago where rising interest rates and lower inventory removed most manufacture incentives on their loans, so the CU was the best deal by a couple points. But even compared to others,…

BMW is just making sure customers will pay extra for the paint colors that will help to hide the less attractive features.

Only thing with iDrive 8 is, they might start the whole subscription based options thing like they’re doing in numerous countries. The subscription system is a part of iDrive 8 I believe.

I don’t know if you ever experienced the Mixing Bowl before the massive reconstruction with the flyovers and HOV/HOT lanes (maybe pre-2010-ish) but THAT was gridlock. The transition to I-95 South from the Beltway WW Bridge side was literally funneled to a single lane and would back up for miles. Today, that area…

Agreed, that X6 front end is very much overdone; but that seems to be modern BMW design philosophy on anything “sporty”. Hopefully BMW kept the X5’s M-treatment a little more restrained.

At least the customers won big in arbitration. Good question though: how’d they sell the car without paying off the loan.....

I’d say arbitration eventually worked out fine for the consumers.  The dealer was slam-dunked to the tune of $225k

You’re leaving out the part where the dealership stole their trade-in and left them with a loan on it.

I think they do have all the same steering as I hear newer Accords and Civic/Integra have the same weird steering issues where the wheel wont respond to small inputs randomly and even resist you and the only fix seems to be a new EPS.

Many dealers are using digital contracting and the deal is funded within minutes.

Assuming the dealer didn’t sell a trade out from under them, it doesn’t sound like they were worse-off after they lost the new car than before; otherwise, they could have just gone back to what they were driving.

The early S63 in the E70 X5M was a mess too, with largely the same issues as the N63. The later revisions of the S63 in the F15 X5M and F10 M5 seem to have fared a bit better, though they still need engines from time to time due to rod bearing issues, it seems.

Lemme guess, you also believe if your bank accidentally deposits $10k in your account instead of $1k you shouldn’t have to give it back, amiright?

That’s traditional. The hatchback on my 1988 Integra also had a very high sill.

It was a chilly autumn morning, and the city streets still held in the chaotic buzziness of last night’s holiday traffic. Patrick had been working since the late hours of the previous night following a customer outage, and his body craved sleep and caffeine. First, though, he would fill his veins with nicotine and…

Bring back the tailgate from the 1992-1995 Civic hatchback!

It was likely the physical limitations of the platform. According to the web, Chrysler used the largest variant of Fiat’s Compact Wide platform. I suspect that the 200, though styled nicely, suffered from the sort of packaging compromises that made the last-gen Taurus such a cramped car.

I always wonder why Chrysler went for the tweener size. Was it the physical limitations of the platform? Or were they that concerned about eating 300 sales? (as if a 300 customer would ever consider a 200) They already had the Dart as a compact, so I always thought the 200 should have been majorly sized up.