Good companies make mistakes.

Shamefully, BMW ignored all the things they should have learned with the Z29, and hired styling idiots without any of the talent that the team who created the Z1 offered.

Marketeers are always pushing the most profitable solution onto the sheeply masses. That means that the automatic, which lazy drivers have been conditioned to "need", is more profitable to sell than the lighter, more efficient, less costly, smaller, BETTER manual transmission.

@nsx23: not so fast, son.

friends in Seattle say that several of these airliners are flying now. looks like the flexy wings will provide a very comfortable ride.

1. Motorcycles conform mercilessly to the rule of "survival of the fittest" and weed out the stupid genes from the pool very efficiently rather than promoting the decline of the species.

@Mr. M: Alive, yes. Well? that's debateable.

... and here is a map of the only area where such a law is enforced.

Does it come in Harvest Gold?

The Reatta was a fun little car, but it definitely was not for the performance enthusiast.

@bozoerrebbe: puce?

@bozoerrebbe: you look at history through very colored glasses, my friend. Unless you've lived under a fascist regime, i would recommend against throwing stones at every single one of the people who did what they had to do to survive that era. Not all Germans, even those operating under the favor of the Reich,…

@Shamoononon: this isn't me in the pic, but i do "freeride" mtn biking. It relieves tension from dodging road idiots.

@bozoerrebbe: In WW2, the USA did not have a truly free society either. Men were drafted into military service. Truly free men (cowards, but free cowards) moved to Canada. On the other hand, Canada seems to have far less problems with jihadists today, go figure. Maybe humility and morality are effective defenses.

@rocco.butterscotch: don't confuse funding with running.

@JSmith53:

one glaring omission in the running list thus far:

This might explain why all those TomTom-equipped vehicles keep holding up long lines of cars behind them.

...coincidentally, also the list of the 20 most annoying vehicles to own. Who said insurance companies don't have a sense of humour?