A minor rant. It seems every BMW review has to bring up the badge not matching the displacement and the //M badges on “not M” cars. Neither are anything new. BMW sold “non M” cars badged with the leading M LONG before the original M3 and M1 debuted. There were the e12 and e28 M535i, and I believe some leading M badged…

That means it has an actual oil pump to move oil under pressure through oil galleries, e.g. to the main bearings. The design of the pump and/or the design of the cylinder casting may have precluded auto-oiling of the top end. Or maybe everyone figured it would take the typical owner 2-3 months to rack up 100 miles,…

Horsepower is how fast you’re going when you slam into a wall. Torque is how deep in the wall you are. (not my own quote)

TOM! STOP IT!

I disagree with the less athletic thing. Sure, they had more weight, inescapable, but they also had more grip and were tuned for more agressive response.

Come talk to be about the Toyota-cost-of-ownership between an early 00s Corolla-based MR2 and an early 00s Boxster.

The difference being that the MRS has ZERO storage space, so it was completely useless in the real world. The previous MR2 had a trunk behind the engine, and the Boxster manages to have two trunks.

Here’s what’s wrong, im my opinion, in almost all of Loewy’s designs: he had a fondness for designs with large, leaning overhangs both front and rear and greater ground clearance than what we’re used to. It gives his designs a comic attribute, like an exaggerated cartoon car.
I think - I’m not sure - that he was…

I remember in the late 90's/early 00's when the GTi, Jetta, and Passat were aspirational, almost near-luxury cars. In high school, girls would drive Jettas, cool guys would drive GTis, and cool parents who wanted sporty sedans would drive Passats. I even almost bought a Jetta GLi in 2005 because it was affordable,…

It’s been kicked around in a few of the other threads but I think the challenges that I’m like an automatic user has control over the clutch in a manual. To allow a eyesight to decide to slam on the brakes to help you avoid running into something Eyesight would also have to be able to electronically disengage the…

You think THAT’S bad?!! Check out this one-of-a-kind godawful monster:

Similar level of day-to-day usability? What? Have you ever been in an Elise?

Longitudinal layouts are great for eliminating torque steer, and for making AWD trivial (which is why Subaru and Audi still use longitudinal layouts for some FWD/AWD platforms, because they make for better AWD systems).

Right. The population of that non-negligible crowd is what puzzles me. Even if you drop, say 33% of the car’s price on a down payment ($15,600) you’re still taking out a loan for over $36k. - $640/mo for 5 years at 2.4%. That’s $7800/year! That’s like a 10-day trip to Aspen in February and a 10-day trip to Portillo…

Another disadvantage with vehicles that have higher ride height... they feel slower. When you are lower to the ground, there is more of a perception of speed.

1. The 2.0L wasn’t an Iron Duke, it was a 122-series engine.

Funny thing about the first Escalade.

Yep. Indeed it used to be on the masthead:

The prototypical GT is the Lancia Aurelia Coupé, hence a GT is one to the extent that it shares family resemblances to the Aurelia.

The early 90's was a deep, deep recession - all of the European makes got killed for a good number of years, and this was when several abandoned the US.