Damn, that's nice. Always loved the Espada.

It's true. Cadillac is not yet at the place where they can charge anywhere near the same price as the Germans. The product isn't there yet (I sat in an ATS and wasn't about to pay 3 series money or even Lexus IS money for that interior), and like you said, the prestige isn't there yet either. It took Lexus a long…

I checked one out in the showroom in the local dealer. You're right when you write the interior feels cheap, because it does.

Well the R Class is still built in the USA so the proper way to state it is "how many of these didn't leave American shores".

At least for the Germans, the gasoline powered equivalents all require premium gas.

The Air Force has tons of spare TF-33s from all the decommissioned early model KC-135s. So the cost of throwing on a new engine on a B-52 is very low.

You can guess who the hypothetical enemy in that hypothetical scenario is.

Yeah, I went to the configurator and mine came out to about $92k. You can easily configure a Cayman S to higher than that, without PCCB. Never thought I'd say that $92k was downright reasonable.

I think the Germans basically rate their engines for worst case scenario (i.e. hot and high). Look at BMWs, they have about the same HP on paper as their peers, yet they always manage to be faster 0-60, etc. This is especially possible with turbo engines. Sometimes gearing and weight also has something to do with it…

Oh yeah, I just remembered somebody actually managed to reverse-engineer the protocol and write an alternate control app:

Programmers are lazy, especially if they were contractors (sourced locally or from across the world) who couldn't give a rat's ass. That's the scariest thing about the impending flood of connected devices and the Internet of Things. Just look at all the IP connected security cameras out there and deployed with trivial…

Have you driven one? I have a diesel X5 and the motor suits the car much more than the gas engine. 550-600 mile range is nothing to sneeze at either.

Have you driven one? I have a diesel X5 and the motor suits the car much more than the gas engine. 550-600 mile range is nothing to sneeze at either.

Have you driven one? I have a diesel X5 and the motor suits the car much more than the gas engine. 550-600 mile range is nothing to sneeze at either.

Oh if BMW would only bring over the facelifted 1 series. I loved how the 228i drove but my practical reality means I just can't do a 2 door car.

Word has it that the 8" screen available everywhere else (as an option) will be available in the 2016 model year.

Why not a 3 series? It's the V60's direct competitor.

That's sometimes another advantage of leasing (actually, it's really just more of reason no. 3 given by Tom) — some manufacturers subsidize leases to move metal.

When is the time on Sprockets when they dance?

In fact last year I bought a one year old X5 diesel and have been delighted with it, and I saved a lot of money over buying new (though of course not nearly as much as buying a 3 year old one, but then it'd be 3 years old instead of 1). It's still under factory warranty and free maintenance, but the only warranty…