Long time reader here... This isn’t aimed at the writers, but rather the powers that be who are no doubt pushing them: please stop with the slideshows. They’re a terrible user experience and I simply click away from the article when I see one.

“ the car has had some questionable reliability over the years”

Name a single country where this is law. I bet you can’t.

[terrible thing happens]

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I like it, because it’s different. Mazda does cool things and makes cool cars. Sometimes they turn out to be quite badly flawed (RX-8), but I’m grateful they dare to be different.

Because people like buying upgrades for the sake of it and the originals probably weren't LED?

I have heated 12V Gerbing gloves that plug into a lead attached directly to the bike’s battery.

Sounds like a good buy! I’m intrigued by these. In the UK the cheapest Leafs and Zoes are now down around the £4,000 mark. A bit expensive to be true shed (beater) territory, but getting there.

Maybe it was a budding office romance.

Good God that is hideous. I know new designs are often challenging but what the hell is happening to BMW? I don’t get it. 

UK perspective here. I’m in favour of inspections, within reason. Ours is called the MOT and for the most part, it’s pretty fair. The important stuff is checked and genuinely dangerous vehicles fail.

I expect you’re right, although Powerhawk is still making the Swench by the looks of things so presumably someone is buying them.

This is super cool, although I feel like you could have done more to explain how it works. There’s a nice video of someone restoring one here:

THIS. Disappointed in Jalopnik running this nonsense tbh. It’s straightforward anti-EU propaganda from the worst rag we have.

This is the correct take.

“I work with our own David Tracy just fine, even though I’ve seen the music videos he made a few years back, and they’re staggeringly embarrassing.”

They are still pretty darned cheap but demand had definitely gone up in the last year thanks to EnduroKa:

That was such a great episode.

“With exhausts from Vance & Hines, seats from Mustang, and various other bits and bobs from Roland Sands Design and BMW Motorrad Accessories, your R18 will be just as non-conformist anti-establishment as you are.”