Doug got me looking into this because it would allow me to look at cars I otherwise wouldn't consider but the "tax" you're paying for this is a lot higher than first glance would suggest.

The car kind of sucked. It was heavy, slow, loud, not particularly fuel efficient, had short all electric range and suffered from a myriad of bugs. As a competitor to the Tesla it was a complete failure. It's basically an expensive plug in hybrid.

They fixed this on the A8. Switch the air suspension to lift mode and you get another 2 inches of clearance. When I lived in Chicago we got something like 20 inches of snow one night. I put it in lift mode and pushed the snow right out of the driveway and then took it out joy riding. It's a liberating feeling…

You think that's bad… My 535 is an M-Sport which is neither an M5 nor an M535. I remember the good old days when it was series (5) followed by engine displacement (2.8) followed by fuel type (i for fuel injected) and then bam: 528i. Want to add all wheel drive? 528ix.

That same model now would be the M-Sport 540…

The H3 in Oahu. On the southern side it takes you over a rain forest and immerses you in the natural environment as much as any expressway can but the real reward comes after you reach the tunnel and find yourself exiting on the windward side of the island, hundreds of feet up, hugging the cliff sides. Water falls…

$30,000 is the new $20,000… It's been this way for some time now and nobody is cross shopping a Mustang and a Camry so what you can build a Mustang for really isn't relevant unless it's direct competition to the Camry.

It will be a 4 door coupe station wagon SUV. They'll call it the X8 Gran Coupe xDrive Efficient Dynamics. It will be great. It will be confusing.

Because Michigan. Wasn't the entire state of Michigan in foreclosure at one point? :-)

I think at some point the requirement to have an emergency brake was relaxed and the parking brake took it's place, mostly because modern systems just don't fail completely (split master cylinders and whatnot) and because the emergency brakes generally did a piss poor job of stopping the car as they only engaged the…

Hat tip to the original BMW halo. This example compliments of my 535.

I moved here from Chicago... This is still shorts weather.

Daily earthquakes are really a myth... Just like every Californian inaccurately assumes that every state in the mid-west is getting pelted with tornadoes on a daily basis in the spring, people from other parts of the country assume the ground is always shaking here in Cali.

Yeah, they're wretched. Which is too bad because the cars themselves are amazing but mid-2000's Porsche had some pretty scary interiors.

Here's my problem with that car. Beautiful as it is, I thought it was an A6 when you first posted it. I've been shopping for Audis and I had to go to Google and pull up a picture of a current gen A6 to spot the differences and even then...

Great materials? Have you sat in a 996? Nevermind that the design is a throw-back to 1994. The materials are all hard and cheap feeling, manage to rattle, creak and moan even when the car is stationary and after just a few years in an average amount of sun fade to 12 different shades of the same color, setting off…

Dad here. 470hp 535, baby seat in the back, stroller in the trunk and a 2 year old that screams "weeeeee" around turns. It's only over if you let be over.

Oh my God you read my mind. I live in Laurel Canyon so this is part of my daily routine and it would be nice to know I could push it to failure and not fly off a cliff into the roof of some mansion.

This was the furthest thing from fast as hell. It's actually quite slow, doesn't get great gas mileage once beyond it's paltry 27 mile electric range, and sounds like a buzz saw. But yes, it is beautiful!

If people would stop looking at electric cars as the impending doom of the internal combustion engine maybe they wouldn't hate them so much. Electric cars don't generally save fuel or protect the environment any more than their internal combustion counterparts; they just hide all the ugliness that people associate…

If you live in LA you can still see some of the earlier roads.