What’s the secret handshake to be able to insert a picture on this website?

I was ‘gifted’ a 1961 220S... Of course, there was rust everywhere. When I lifted up the spare tire in the trunk, you could see more pavement than metal - it was just about ready to fall through the floor. I pulled everything easily accessible and of value off the car and donated the parts to my fav Mercedes shop.…

I think a mailing list of every one of these 27,000 customers is just the thing ExtenZe needs to beat 4th quarter sales expectations.

Some of the culprits in this car’s sales issues are surely quarter-mile-time-is-everything Youtubers / Car and Driver dick-measurers, etc.

Reminds me of when I worked in a tech start-up and then 2001 happened. Huge offices with 5 people wandering around stealing kitchen supplies, printer paper, etc. before the final round of layoffs.

I like this, if only because it will annoy all sorts of Ferrari PR people, which must be half of the company by now.

I’ve owned two of these - a 1996 SL500 and a 2001 CLK 320. There’s a lot to talk about, of course, but I’d just add that these designs also were enjoyable from inside the car, too. The CLK gave you wonderful, almost 911-ish fender curves from the driver’s seat; the SL gave you sightlines to all four corners of the…

Be great if an electric vehicle company or two sent him a letter signed by an attorney, etc.  

This upside-down bathtub is so bad it managed to destroy my memory of the car that preceded it.

That gave me a laugh, thanks.   Ford stock is right where it was 30 years ago - they have a dividend (good for them!), but - ooph.  Their product strategy, or whatever they call it, is not working.

I still want to know - which of the Succession characters would have been in that submarine?

It’s a great question that keeps on getting more hopelessly impossible to answer, it seems.

Sports sedans are tough and capable of making it to 100k without catastrophic failures, which is why ‘M5 nightmare’ has been trending for the last 20 years.

Exactly. These are 130 mph cars with great throttle response and more engine than tire. Today’s point and shoot drivers (read: low skill) have no idea what a momentum car is like. My Porsche shop used a lightly modified 924S as a track car for years to help train drivers and I spent several hours with it - so much…

Something tells me that officials were ‘shocked’ but not ‘surprised’.

Just reading the headline, it’s clear this didn’t happen in the US. We prefer to: let authorities be ‘concerned’....gauge the amount of public outrage...see if the fire department can handle it...blame someone else...then do the minimum required...after posing for photographs alongside our paramilitary equipment.

Harris is one of the few auto journalists that has pretty much impeccable credibility. Just to cite one instance, Ferrari effectively banned him from having access to their new cars for a time, because he made them have a Big Sad when he took a piss one of their products. (The other takeaway is that modern Ferrari is…

No picture of the truck owner in question, but I’m just going to make a bold guess: White guy with 50 extra pounds unflatteringly distributed, goatee, doughy face, soft hands from never doing an honest day’s work once in his life...

It is so cool that we’ve got the linguist pedants in the comments section to quibble with the title / focus of this story.

Agreed. I rented one for a few days when I was out in northern California for a wedding. Great car on great roads, etc., but I just didn’t fit into it... I’m 6'4". I have a MGB and that actually has much more leg room.