My better half and I are debating about getting a car for the kids (would certainly ease scheduling woes now we’re back to pre-COVID activity levels)

If this was a manual I’d buy it right now at this price, alas we already have 1 E90 slushbox in the garage (my DD) and wouldn’t want a second.

NP (even considering the…

I can see them porting the ride directly from Japan, in which case there would be size limitations as you point out.

But I don’t buy the argument about the ride being designed for kids. As a concrete example, my son, an 11 year old in the 2nd percentile for height and weight (he’s the size of an 8 year old), me…

This right here. Design guidelines (not that they’re always followed) for modern vehicles (cars, planes, boats, etc) is to design for the 5th to 95th percentiles...so that 90% of people can operate the vehicle safely.

I’m not a mechanical engineer but I wonder if the reason this ride was *not* designed with the 5th to…

ran when parked

That’s a good catch.  I don’t sign final paperwork until I have confirmed that they dealership has removed all their stickers without damaging the paint.

$115k starting, and I still can’t spec the light gray interior with a red or blue exterior. Looks like you can only get the light gray interior with the black exterior. Nor is there any sort of brown or tan interior option.

A Carrera S starts a bit more at $122k but I can get it in Guards Red with a tan interior for no…

I’m curious as to why he punched out.

+1 for the zero-zero ejection seat but he was on the ground...could he not pull the throttle to idle or even yank the fire suppression lever which I would assume would instantly cut fuel flow?

I suspect very few boomers out there are willing or able to run ubuntu on their home computer. 

that’s heavy

derogatory term for people who ride sport bikes. in my neck of the woods (Chicago) you can usually tell squids apart from enthusiasts by the lack of helmet (or even shoes), weaving in and out of moderate traffic at high speeds and a general lack of traffic law obedience.

not all sport bike riders are squids but all…

as other commentors have pointed out, they may be maintaining them to hedge against having to give them back at some point.  :shrug:

doesn’t seem like they were.  unless I missed it somewhere else in the article where they replaced the fuel pumps?

Given the description of all the potential damage to fuel pumps, DPF, etc., I wonder if any of this will be disclosed when this press car is finally sold as a used car.

I can’t imagine this particular vehicle having the same reliability as one that has never been accidently filled with gasoline.

well, if we’ve actually seized them, and there is no way the original owners can get them back, why not just scrap them?  It would likely be pennies on the dollar but then we don’t have to pay to maintain them anymore

Didn’t we seize offshore bank assets too? Why not use the US currency they had squirreled away in US banks to cover the upkeep?

But also, why upkeep them at all?  Why is it our problem?  If my car gets impounded because I didn’t move it on alternate street cleaning day, the city of Chicago doesn’t go out there and wash…

E39 M5. And if that was too flashy, a debadged E39 540i 6MT with sticky rubber was even more sleepy.

easy enough to debadge

I think it’s a range problem. Aircraft like that can’t fly over CONUS above Mach 1, and even F-15s, IIRC, require a midair refueling to cross the Atlantic (not to mention the Pacific). So if an F-15 with external tanks and 1-2 pilots has to top off for gas over the ocean, a passenger version with 8-12 passengers will…

There are peaks and lulls. I’m not saying a 14hr shift is easy, but there can be some downtime. 2pm is a good example: lunch rush is over, dinner hasn’t started. There is time to restock, clean, and prep for dinner rush. A good manager (and I had a good one when I worked fast food) will have their folks sit and relax…

When speaking about limited access highways in daytime and good weather, 55mph is too slow, 85mph is probably too fast (for most people).

I have found myself cruising at 80-85mph on Chicago area interstates just to “keep up with traffic” because I consider serious speed differentials to be dangerous (not based in any…