Ecclestone truly reminds us that “only the good die young.” That reptilian shitbag is going to live to be 120, probably with the aid of a 20something involuntary blood donor brokered to Bernie via one of his kleptocrat dictator friends.

let’s keep in mind that applying logic to to the actions of those who suffer from serious mental illness issues is fucking stupid.

I consider myself a proper Jalop, and I didn’t know that electric door handles were a thing. I would wager that your average Tom, Dick, or Joe isn’t going to either. As for useful features in a vehicle? The salesman did go over most of them, but I would bet a fair number either aren’t aware that the door handles are…

Just imagine for a moment:

Stop making excuses for a stupid design by a stupid carmaker. Even if you read the manual cover-to-cover, you are not going to remember that particular detail because you don’t use that particular function ever. Something you only do once in your lifetime maybe- you are not going to remember how. That is a guarantee.

Dude, it is a car door handle. They don’t advertise that they aren’t mechanical and that you need to study up on them. You just pull the handle and it opens and you never worry about it until it is broken. I didn’t notice the rear hatch release on my Outback was electronic until it broke in the open position. I read…

That goes with the assumption that people KNOW that the locks on the car they bought are electronic. That’s an awfully big assumption. You know that the salesman didn’t say jack about the electronic latches. How is the Average Joe who doesn’t know enough about cars to change an air filter going to know about…

On the list of things that you shouldn’t need a manual to operate, door handles are near the top.

FCA clearly makes the Warthog.

/reads title

What’s wrong with listing her side gigs? After all, you desperately want to pigeon-hole her, which simply proves her concerns that she would be derisively seen as ‘just’ a bartender/server.

I have a FiST, too (also my first manual). I had an issue with this as well, and judging by the Fiesta forums, others have, too.

Bought a new Fiesta ST last August. It was my first manual and scared the living shit out of me for a good month-and-a-half, but now we’re on pretty good terms. 1st and 2nd aren’t always as smooth as I’d like, but on the right road, and the right day, it’s definitely worth it.

We need some more arcade-y racing games with licensed cars. Nothing too serious, but the machines handle as expected, and stages and tracks are real or based in real life.

Bangle’s vision was way ahead of his time. The value he brought to BMW—and by extension, automotive design—was never really about selling X units (though, of course, that’s a performance metric) but finally breaking the mold of iterative design. Sure, you can always say don’t fix what’s not broken, but then Bangle…

Exactly this! The forms of the old pop-up headlights were directly the result of mass produced lamps. With LEDs, this no longer need be the case. Headlights could roll out to match the existing forms or create new and exciting ones. Why not pop-out sideways? Or maybe from semi-revealed to fully revealed?

They did this all wrong. Don’t try and just paste retro lights onto the new model, you have to actually incorporate the new design language into it as well.

I really want to like this car, and I really want it to be good because it’s finally in the US, but damn this car is ugly. I mean not just opinion ugly, but completely hideous I’d be embarrassed to be seen in it ugly. Could you imagine picking up an educated woman for a first date in this thing?

Yeah... that’s a Range Rover Sport.