E60 M5 seems like it can be had for low 20s. Not sure what it costs to pull the limiter - but that and a set of appropriate tires, and it is a 200 mph car from the factory. It may not be the cheapest up front, but you won’t get your money back on mods, so when you go to resell the M5 is probably cheapest (unless…

It comes as little surprise to me that Autonation is a terrorist organization...

Jason - read their marketing material. 84 mpg was a target set based on 3x the US average fleet fuel economy at the time (~28). This ties in with their whole payment plan gimmick - you pay 3x the actual cost of fuel at the pump, and 2/3 of that goes to pay off the vehicle - so fuel based operating cost seems average…

Expedition 41/42 Crew Meets Russian Commission Of…:

Fuck Autonation and their piece of shit service departments. I actually like the website idea, but loathe the company. They'll probably still find a way to change the price on you when you show up to pickup the car.

Let me make sure I understand this -

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're actually talking about expansion ratio - normally (otto cycle) your compression and expansion ratios are close enough to be the same so equating them is a liberty most people will take. I guess it takes some getting used to with atkinson

Scalar form of acceleration?

All hail the Pentastar. There's actually a lot of debate going on about how cheap the Avenger SE with the V6 and four-speed auto combo is. The MSRP is just over $20 grand, I priced the car out into the mid nineteen thousand range, but reader ColoradoFX4 got it down to just $18,840 on the Dodge website (proof is right…

The Coda. Yes, they actually sold a few of these (according to Wikipedia, 117) before the company went under. That's right, for almost 40,000 you too could have all of the sex appeal of a 1997 Nissan Sentra

Can we just start ignoring BMW's marketing and talk about the cars? As far as I can tell, the M235i is just the next generation 135i. If there isn't even a regular 235i offered, MPA just seems like a new naming convention for the larger engine option.

Yeah... but the M635csi had the M88 engine, which was not only featured in the M1 homologation special, but was also a very standout engine from the more pedestrian lineup of SOHC engines offered in BMW's regular lineup at the time. It had the full twin-cam, ITB treatment. I'll definitely agree that the chassis wasn't…

True - if you managed to fuse together two of the four cylinders from the CLA45, you'd have a 710 hp 4L biturbo V8...

SNC is a pretty exaggerated problem. I seem to recall actual failure rates in the 1% range, and it's usually from an improperly torqued crank pulley bolt during an timing belt change (lots of shops are big fans using an impact wrench as a torque wrench). My anecdotal proof is my '90 with 198k on the original engine…

Bizzaro wasn't a theme?

As this entire article is full of pedantic commenters, I will join their ranks and ask if you are sure the 745i you drove in South Africa was the turbo? The actual South African market 745i differed from the European version and came with the M88 out of the M5/M635csi instead (I think)

The 2014 Honda Civic: Because you don't know Mazda exists.

I can't seem to find any evidence online that you can actually buy an i-MiEV - no online configurator, no dealers with any listed in inventory. Has this become a west coast only model like the Spark EV?

I actually like that detail a lot. The fasteners are nicely plated and are high quality looking. If they were using black phillips head screws, or those abysmal plastic body fasteners that break every time you remove them, it would be cheap - these seem very intentionally placed. They remind me a lot of a motorcycle…

Ferrari FF, and if you don't accept that because it's more of a 2 door hatch, then the CTS-V.