So G-Wagon it will be? “Please secret service, all by buddies have one of those!” On a different matter, what is Putin driving right now?

Emissions regulations have been very good for the automotive industry, not really for OEMs, but for the automotive suppliers, where up to 75% of all work is done. When OEMs don’t need suppliers innovations, they will pay less and move suppliers jobs to cheaper places, like Asia.

Old cars look old because you have seen so many of them for such a long time. The Jag was a much rarer car, so it looks new to you. If you had owned one for 10 years, or worse your neighbor who put aftermarket wheels on it and let it rust till its dead, you would probably think it looks old.

Things have changed with turbo engines. Todays cars are even more downsized, but more powerful, which means even more boosted. On the other hand are the turbos better than ever, they spool up sooner and have a broader power band.

Hey, wait a minute! He gave them their own new Minivan, that is a booming segment, isn’t it?

But only after a passionate night of merging.

Maybe they didn’t get the right fuel to RedBull mixture?

I have heard that they initially planned to reduce the entrance price by switching the base model to a pay per use model. Maybe the prices will come down, maybe not. We will have to wait until next year to find out.

Aren’t those ZF transmissions very popular? I mean most OEMs reconfigure their transmissions for their own use, but maybe this will be like Bosch with their ECU and basically everyone cheated.

The thing is that there are still too many of those cars. A car only becomes desirable if there are few of them. Enough E30s got killed by their owners so that still functional ones are rare. And the same owners that killed their cars before by modding them do death and letting them rust till they fell apart now want…

There is one massive problem you haven’t mentioned. It is the all new Jeep Wrangler.

Yea, the comment section is known for its automotive news.

Even on the Ferrari they are stupid in every day driving. They make sense on a Ferrari, on a track. Other than that they are just jerky and rob any connection between the driver and the gearbox.

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It is kind of strange that the most bragged about drive mode will be the one, that was the cheapest to implement.

In automotive engineering its all about being modular to drive the cost down. Like you mentioned that can be done by chopping off two cylinders to convert a V8 to a V6. You could of course chop another two cylinders to get to a V4, but it will be more expensive to make than a i4.

In cars its all about production costs. The V4 is more expensive than the i4 and an i4 fits all cars. The real question is why we got much more V6es than i6es, or V8 instead of i8 engines.

You’d think some mistakes won’t be forgotten. John Howell, a Cadillac product director, kept a picture of the Cimarron on his wall captioned, “Lest we forget.” They let him go 2010, I guess the picture went with him.

The thing was that the Tesla is more practical, a lot more powerful, has the better brand image and is purely electric.

As if your car isn’t terrifying enough...