I’m already paying to keep a 14 year old 335i and a 19 year old SLK280 on the road...how much more could this possibly be?

I’m lucky and have the mildly more reliable N55, but to your point, the cost of ownership of a BMW is measurable higher than a G35/G37/Q50

I had a G35C 6MT for a decade. It was a great car, traded it in with a little more than 150k miles on it and other than the first couple of years I had it, it was reliable and trouble free.

agreed

AWD/4WD is a marketing scam.*

Buy better tires.

*for most people in most places

It’s always a white-knuckle ride for me whenever I pass through St. Louis to get to...other places. The interstate signage is confusing, the lanes seem narrower than they need to be, the pavement is really rough for the speeds you’re driving and the drivers...woof...the drivers and their cars scare me the most. Lots…

I’m still more concerned about being shot by someone with road rage

Not many cars on the road sound as good as a V8 F-Type with the factory burble tune...but dat cost of ownership, tho

I mean, I’d put this on my E90...

Just going to leave this here.

Comes with a manual.  Would love to get this for my kids.  Too bad the steering wheel is on the wrong side.  Stupid British colonists.

I feel like this could have gone much worse for everyone involved.  Safer thing to do may have just been to follow the thief while on the phone with the police.

VFR pilot here, so take my comment with a grain of salt, but if the pilot was in IMC (instrument meteorological conditions) and their primary flight displays were offline, and secondary were also suspect, *and* they started feeling vertigo - they could have been in a situation where their body could have been telling…

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.

The Lancer was a boring, cheap, and poorly built economy car where it was a race to see if it rusted out around itself before the engine spun a bearing (or similar).

The Evo on the other hand was a cool looking, fire breathing rally car that could hang with BMW M3s of the same era (in the…

It probably took that DC3 a lot longer to get those altitudes than a jet airliner, giving your ears that much more time to equalize.

Yeah, I just saw this article from WaPo (Assessing claims about Tim Walz’s military service - The Washington Post) that lays out a similar timeline.

I’m not going to defend Walz semantics - he’s made a couple of statements that are misleading and he needs to start being a lot more clear - but starting as early as fall o…

Yeah, I just saw this article from WaPo (Assessing claims about Tim Walz’s military service - The Washington Post) that lays out a similar timeline.

I’m not going to defend Walz semantics - he’s made a couple of statements that are misleading and he needs to start being a lot more clear - but starting as early as fall o…

and likely in the green zone. but he went over, and I didn’t so imma be the last guy to talk shit about his service

I have not seen the paperwork with my own eyes, so grain of salt and all that, but a senior enlisted solder from Walz’s unit specified that the deployment orders for the unit came down after Walz put in his retirement packet. They all knew it was going to be inevitable that they deploy, but the question was when, and…

This. So much this. An E4 calling out an E9, Vance needs to GFH. Sure Vance spent 6 months in the sand but he was still a REMF MOS while Walz was Artillery