Fun fact! Ham the Space Chimp was screaming and violently attacking reporters when that photo was taken.
This seems like a good time to mention one of my favorite pilot sayings. To paraphrase, “If you crash in bad weather, your funeral will be held in the sun.”
Buying this car was stupid from the beginning, obviously. But based on his experience at the DMV and with inspection station (to paraphrase, “everyone loving the car”), you can kind of see why he wouldn’t have been worried about giving the insurance company all the same information that he had already given to the…
The reason he had to get insurance is because the moment he drove buy a cop with a plate scanner the car would show up as uninsured. So unless he intended to drive it exclusively around a private farm, having an “insured” vehicle was the key to flying under the radar.
NH doesn’t require insurance? Thanks for the heads up. I’ll keep a lawyer handy next time I have to drive to Boston.
Because he intended to drive it on the road. That’s why he registered it, inspected it, and everything else. And obviously liability insurance is legally required as well.
It definitely didn’t say that.
If people survive driving hot rods and straight-piped diesel trucks, I’m pretty sure they’d be safe in a modern vehicle nowhere near the exit of the tailpipe. People in back seats of hatchbacks don’t suffer carbon monoxide poisoning because they happen to be closer to the exhaust.
Could you not breathe through the drain plug? Are you too good for that?
Funny to the consumer, but BMW’s marketing team (or anyone’s marketing team who paid for the use of the product, really) would never have allowed this. I’m surprised they let it appear as a deleted scene.
What is this “punk” you speak of?
These days that would be several hundred thousand dollars worth of product placement.
I’ll have to try those, but the most recent CVT that left such a poor impression was also a Subaru one, from a rental Legacy I had. As much as I love Subaru, they’ve had some truly shitty non-manual transmissions over the years (the 2005-2009 4EAT was okay, but the previous one was hilariously awful—shifting up when…
Calm down, everyone. #3 isn’t really fair to modern automatic transmissions. A lot (not all, but a significant amount) of modern manuals lack a lot of feel. Yes, they’re still more fun, and I’d still take a manual over an auto, but as a gift car, I’d completely take accept an auto. I drove a 2015 MINI JCW with an auto…
Ridiculous, sure—the entire lineup is ridiculous by the standards of mere mortals. But it was portrayed as a bit of a gimmick, which isn’t entirely fair.
The new Clubman’s interior is actually a lot more elegant and upmarket than the previous (or other current, I guess) models. The seat design and fabrics are especially cool, and although it still uses the circle-inspired gauge and dash designs, the colors are a lot more elegant.
Wait wait wait. Hold the phone. THAT’S what the Corkscrew looked like in 2006? I’ve worked at Laguna Seca a couple times a year for the past two or three years, and it was imprinted in my memory as a hot dusty desert with a few scrubs, not this Tuscan paradise thing with grass and bushes and things. Holy crap. The…
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