And the long version:

Okay, this is just all screwed up. Let me try this one more time.... Short version:

I personally think they did their best ads with these:

Wow. What a load of epic suck. And I *like* Mercedes-Benz....

The electrical problem makes me very wary, and you better know what you’re getting into by taking on an ‘80s M-B. I’d honestly be more inclined to cough up a little more cash for a slightly less iffy car, like this one:

You wanted black?

I’m not an ABS fan either, because it takes away my ability to directly control the skid/slide.... Anybody feel the same. Without it, I can kind let the car slide for short bits in between braking, if that makes any sense.....

I’m not a big fan of these sort of systems, being an old-school-nothing-beats-a-driver-actually-paying-attention old fart, but I have the biggest issue with Tesla’s system by far for one simple reason:

This is not a “freak accident”. The legal term is ‘gross negligence’.

Age isn’t the issue. It was similar logic that the Province of Buenos Aires used in 1994 to deny driving licenses to anyone over the age of 80—-forgetting that one 80+ year old resident was Juan Manuel Fangio, who had a slight issue with that. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Fangio#Later_life_and_death)

Interesting to read Volkswagen’s perspective...

It’s a shame the R-class has such a crappy reputation. I always liked the looks, myself.

I missed the discussion part, sorry. But I’m also judging the drivers based on club track day driving, not actual race-experience drivers. Even the most clueless newbie at an SCCA drivers’ school (or similar) has a passable idea of how things are supposed to work when it really hits the fan. These guys, not so…

They pulled off the track surface in a reasonably safe location. Speaking as a former marshal, that makes it all the easier to get safety vehicles out as fast as possible. Given that was a pretty hard hit, if there weren’t marshals (possible because it’s not the US, but unlikely), then they were there to help if…

Can I just give a big thumbs up to the other drivers, including the guy filming it, for what they did immediately afterward? I wish half as many other drivers had that much sense.

They’ve just recently started putting signals like the here in Indy, too.

Buicks can be surprisingly durable. My Dad slid our mid-1970s Century station wagon (with that classic combo of white with fake wood trim outside and red vinyl inside) down a boatramp—-the water came up just shy of the pedals.

The embodiment of something my Dad told me when (as a new driver) I accused him of not trusting my driving:

Hard-top convertibles, like the Mercedes SLK roadsters.

Here’s a couple I’ve found, including a newer AMG for the masochistic: