Um, you know that AR-15s are legal in Canada, right? You can even buy a cheap Chicom one, something we Americans haven't been able to do since 1989 or 1990.

Leasing can make sense if you want a new car every 3 years or so (and lets face it, lots of people have what comes close to being a moral issue with that). You can think of leasing as the economic equivalent of buying a car with a pre-negotiated guaranteed resale value after 3 years. If it makes sense to you at the…

Cayenne Turbo is certainly a good alternative, as is a decked out Range Rover (sport or no sport), but if it were my money, X5M (there's a new one in the pipeline but the old E70 one ain't half bad either), partly because I find the Cayenne to be irredeemably hideous.

U.S. market version of 335 had a version of the M57 engine (also used in the E70 X5 35d). It was really the testbed for a lot of the diesel emissions stuff (particulate filter, urea injection, etc.), because all that stuff was required first in the U.S. market.

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Beaten like a red-headed stepchild

Man, the local Mercedes dealer wanted more for an oil change. Did that once, after that, found me a great independent mechanic, a Swiss-German one at that.

Hideous. It looks like a techno-cancer growing out of the building.

Ghostery

That's why I generally avoid the East Coast. Overly regulated in basically every way you can think of (except for maybe Vermont/New Hampshire/Maine). At least California is a nice place to visit.

Go away! 'Batin'!

I'd love to see a rotary launcher in action, dispensing ALCMs or SRAMs.

So true. When I visited Tokyo almost ten years ago I still smoked. So did everyone in Tokyo, it seemed. Yet, for some reason, on the street I felt really guilty about tossing my cigarette butts and would always look for the proper receptacle. Nobody ever said anything or looked at me or anything like that. It just…

Yugos were made in (wait for it) Yugoslavia, based on an old Fiat design.

For me that would be easy. M3 sedan. I think the 3/4s view of the ass of the 4 series to look heavy and dumpy. The E92 looked better than the E90 but I think for this generation it's reversed.

Rented one in Italy, driving from Siena to the coast way back in 2004. Driving around the tight streets of a Medieval Italian town, its size was handy, but once on "regular" roads, it had the most hateful transmission I've ever had the displeasure of driving. The fact that it had a Tiptronic type shift lever was just…

It's not clear to me, but are these bins the same length as the current ones, or just longer? Can they actually fit 6 bags in the same length as 4? Or are there just fewer but longer bins, and they reclaim some of the linear space taken by the bin walls, mounts, etc. themselves?

I've always been fond of Microgramma because of how often it was used in Star Trek (as Microgramma Bold Extended)

Not only was the YF-22 prettier than the YF-22, but it was probably a better plane too. But it looked too sci-fi and exotic for the Air Force generals.

IMO the YF-23 was a prettier plane.