[Well-thought out, structured essay-like counter-comment, indicating fact I have no life. Also, more hyphen-usage.]

If it shows up in Melbourne or Sydney, I'll take the driver out into the bush and let him get acquainted with some dingos. Last I heard, they hadn't eaten a human in many years, so they must be getting pretty hungry, I'd reckon.

We should start a pool to guess how many dead bodies will be recovered from these cars' trunks over the first five years of its production.

Have you actually sat in the back of an X6? I'm 6'1", and it wasn't as bad as you make it out to be. I'll also take issue with your claim that BMW is at fault for combining coupes and SUVs. Nissan beat them to the punch by a decade or so with the Infiniti FX line.

BAC Mono. In terms of practicality, besides getting you from A to B, the only other thing this would do right is attracting a certain type of person of the opposite sex. But even then, it's a half-ass job, as you couldn't even take your prize home with you.

BMW doesn't recommend resurfacing because money. I've owned mostly Bimmers in my life (6 so far to be exact) and my ritual was always to only replace rotors every 2nd pad change, and just resurface them every other pad change in between.

It actually has less to do with weight, power, contact area, etc. than most people believe. It comes down to physics and friction. Namely, static friction vs. kinetic friction. For any object, its static friction is greater than its kinetic friction. A prime example of this is when a car starts understeering…

Somehow, Infiniti has managed to make this car look like every other new production car on the planet. I keep getting confused as to whether I'm looking at a Lexus, Mazda, Toyobaru, or BMW. It's as if the designers went to a local multi-brand dealer with a notebook, and started walking around... "Yep, want that. …

If I was Constable Spitzig, I'd call up local dealerships, shops, and junkyards, and have them get in touch when that part is ordered or pulled. Maybe offer up a get-out-of-a-speeding-ticket-free card as a reward.

No, the sound source wasn't moving. It was just being faded in/out of various [stationary] speakers. Thus, a true Doppler effect in this case would be impossible.

I'm the opposite. Can only do a nice heel-toe about half the time I try it. Double-clutching, on the other hand, comes naturally. Of course, this may be due to necessity... I had a shot 3rd gear synchro on my last car.

I share your story. My father swam the Danube river from Ceausescu's Romania to escape into former Yugoslavia, eventually being granted asylum in the States. And what is going on in the States now has reminded me of Cold War Romania for ages, even before this leak.

That driver was clearly tired.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think they're being coerced into driving that close to tornadoes. I'm pretty sure it's their choice. These things fascinate certain people, and getting as close as they can provides them with the satisfaction that, the more they know about twisters, the more lives they can save in the…

Of course it's still a sports car company... and it's all the better for it. The sports brand increases the appeal of the sedans and SUVs for people who want a sports car but can't have one, for one reason or another. Those sales, in turn, finance real sports car awesomeness, which increases the value of the brand,…

I can't believe this is a topic worthy of a full-article rant. Just separate the damn keys yourself. I've done that for every single car I've rented, and I've never gotten charged.

He must have said something funny, because she proceeded to laugh her ass off.

Mysteriously disappeared, my ass. Sounds like it just got repossessed.

I love that thieves/carjackers haven't bothered learning how to drive stick. But I have to wonder how many more of these similarly-themed articles will come out before they decide to start learning.