It’s a 2016 Audi S5...it’s a great balance of everything I’ve wanted in a daily driver: comfortable and reasonably luxurious, beautiful to look at and to be in, engaging without being punishing, all-weather safe and secure, and most importantly, fun to drive with great steering and suspension (and very well placed…

Here’s a link to an article on this very topic by the great John Lamm...who shared a car ride with both Mario Andretti and Phil Hill and discussed it. I’m also trying to find the photo of Hill on the podium...his expression is not one of joy, but sort of bewildered.

Here’s a really crazy idea...if a lawmaker owns a construction company, is an investor in one, or is related to or ‘really good friends’ with such a developer or major investor in such a company, they don’t get to have ANY say in contracts with those companies.

I know everyone whines about the slideshows, but whatever, they are what they are.

“There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.”

Even rarer than the one in the listing is one of this generation in 2-door form. Definitely a unicorn.

Oh I wantwantwantwant this, so much...been looking for a 2-door Jetta in halfway decent shape for ages. Would like it better if it had full bumpers. Always wanted to shove a 1.8t (oooh, or a 2.0t!) in one of these.

Oh I wantwantwantwant this, so much...been looking for a 2-door Jetta in halfway decent shape for ages. Would like it better if it had full bumpers. Always wanted to shove a 1.8t (oooh, or a 2.0t!) in one of these.

That’s the vacuum reservoir...my brother’s ‘81 had it mounted to the underside of the hood.

Oh. Your. GOD.....how the hell did all of us forget the frickin Corvette L88?!?!

Have to remember that everything on those cars was for homologation, and performance. The wing was so high because it had to be mounted to the fender (there is structure inside to pass forces down to the frame) and if it was lower you couldn’t open the trunk. The ‘vents’ on the front fenders were to provide clearance…

Wow, there are some really good ones...and a lot of them are represented in the comments (even if some aren’t really ‘hot rods’ but just actual models...for example, the 959 was not a hot rod 911, it was a whole different beast).

“BMW’s First M5 Might Still Be the Best of Them All” No, no, no...

And I’m honestly sick and tired of all that fucking orange smoke.

One of the first things I’ve done in any car I have bought, or even rented, was located the instrument dimmer and turned it down...creates far too much glare for night driving...

Wow...very hard to pick just one. I mean, there are several anthology books of Peter Egan’s writing, on motorcycles AND cars, that could fill a Top 10 list, not to mention some other auto journalist anthologies that should be ‘required reading’ for auto enthusiasts.

Alfa has several big problems, but the biggest is...well, their cars are beautifully designed, the major engineering seems to be pretty darned good, they have the ‘desirability’ and performance/driving aspects down...their cars are just unreliable and expensive. That’s NOT a good combination. And it’s not just…

THANK you...as I clicked through the slides I got more and more annoyed this wasn’t there. But all these kids think nothing happened before 2000, so I shouldn’t be so surprised.

Could be fun...but I will say that nobody will ever do ‘the smirk’ better than Christina Ricci. This one’s affected the rest of her face a bit too much, a bit too close to real emotion. Ricci managed to keep her face so mask-like, with just the slightest crinkle around her mouth...such a small expression that said so…

My girlfriend was car shopping last year and we drove every mid-luxury crossover out there...and the BMW X1 sounded TERRIBLE, both inside and outside the car. Inside it sounded like a poorly tuned British econo car from the 80s...actually, I think the average Allegro sounded better. It was very un-BMWlike. Outside it…