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Let me stop you right there before you talk about what a headache old German cars are, or how much of a hassle it’ll be to fix it. This is a legit AMG Merc (before they started diluting the brand with the lower tiered AMGs).

You think you hate it now, wait til you drive it!

“Making changes to an existing product, changing an integrated circuit that only has the difference in the manufacturing processes would still require this sort of testing. Unless there are some compelling associated cost improvements to recoup the investment, this is not very plausible.”...

Great article, more in depth stuff like this please.

Tracy is going to grow up to be some wide-eyed kid’s weird uncle. I mean, the kid is going to go to school, and he is going to have stories.

Priced like a museum piece, but nobody wants to go to that museum.

You must mean the most important vehicle in the Back to the Future franchise. The producers spent three entire films of a movie franchise focusing on a time travelling Delorean, and totally missed the star of the show.

Corrected, thanks. Like I said, I was really effing sick.

Tom, all three of these series of columns have been appointment reading for me the last few years. I really hope you've got another one in the works. Otherwise, I'll have to go back and start Age of Violence over again.

I’ve owned 5 GM Voltecs (3 Volts, ELR, CT6 PHEV) and I had a lot of trust in GM based on the tremendous over-engineering in those vehicles.

I hear now is a great time to buy Bolt. Someone told me they’re having a fire sale.

Well the Ford is located in Iowa:

Or the Netherlands

Well, you’re wrong, I don’t know what to tell you.

I don’t think i’d seen the Opel Kapitan before. That is a gorgeous friggin’ car.

In Japan they call them “young fogeys”

I think that dude is wearing a cardigan. He’s old at heart.

Don’t forget, I’m old aigh eff

For true authenticity:

I love cars. I love all cars. I love my gas cars. I’m all for this ban and look forward to other states following this pattern because I love my kids more than I love my cars. Seeing the affects of climate change over nearly 50 years of life makes we worry about the world that my kids will live in when they have been