When this story broke on the WaPo and I first saw the headline I was wondering what state was the unfortunate winner...

I’m feeling like an ass this morning, so I’ll just say it...

I’m sad that Erotic Vagrancy wasn’t the name of a punk band in the 70's.

I’m sad that Erotic Vagrancy wasn’t the name of a girl-punk band in the 70's.

British-hating-know-it-alls don’t want to hear it, but these can be great cars. My dad owned two different XJ6s and they both made it past 150,000 without major problems. The Series III version, which this one is, was only trailer’d once in 120,000 miles of driving, and that was because it threw a poorly tightened…

These guys were the first openly twin comedians...! 

Ha!  Let’s hope that at the part where he admits he “never learned how to read” there is a crescendo of music, just so we know how were supposed to feel...  

There was a pretty good editorial over at The Guardian about Moby’s ‘nice guy’ shtick.

PeterJJ4 — Absolutely.

Good eye..! And I’m just going to assume that all 40 pages in the owner’s manual that have to do with warning lights are dog-earned and well worn. 

My cousin down in Houston bought a new X5 (no ‘M’) of similar vintage, and got rid of it right after the $10,000 complete brake job it needed (rotors on all-four wheels, pads, etc.) somewhere around the 40,000 mile mark.

At least the article wasn’t about Beto’s rock band he was in during high school, and how it was so ‘punk’ or whatever.

Thanks for posting this. As a side note, the book reads like it was written by / for semi-literate 8th graders.

Great points! (But that’s not just a mere autojournalist in the Ruf) I’ve got a 964 (with coil springs, etc.) and driving back-to-back with the older torsion-bar models are pretty amazing. Not only does the ‘modern’ suspension ride better, but it clearly also allows the wheels to be held at improved and consistent…

No one but a few of us remembers Shakey’s Pizza...! What’s up with that?

Seriously.

I was looking at CLS’s earlier in the year and drove a few. It would be REALLY tough to find a decent one anywhere near this guy’s price point.

Well, they obviously watched the latest Road Warrior movie, and decided to de-rastify an iconic scene by about 30%. Hugely impressive, guys!

I just came here to gleefully read the comments as people trash JJ Abrams...

Wow....  How about that?  It’s a Model 81... I threw on a picture further down the thread.