Impressive list.

I have to ask the obvious question here since the article doesn’t say, why is the car being towed in the first place?

When I drove the BMW i3 it has a similar amount of aggressive regenerative braking. During the short 10 minute test drive, I could not master it, it slowed down the car so aggressively that it messed up my inner ear and I got a case of vertigo that lasted a week.

Spridgets are great cars period. I can’t get over the rotary thing because I think they really do deserve to have an Austin A series in them so I voted CP.

I have done this a fair number of times by accident in my 1999 Oldsmobile 88, both park and reverse at highway speeds. It is an electronically controlled transmission, the smarts are there to prevent catastrophe.

I question the year, I have a 62 Sprite and it is a square rear fender car like all MK2 Sprites.

Isn’t the target audience for these things getting kind of old? Seems a little late bring back this design.

My township still uses their 70s vintage Oshkosh snow plows, every time it snows. The traction capability of those things absolutely amazes me. Have watched one start from a dead stop on an icy hill and pull a car out of a ditch up the hill going backwards.

It isn’t so much that I don’t trust autonomous vehicles, I just don’t have interest in them. I like to drive and prefer my cars to be simple.

The one place I have found where the NA V6 is better than the turbo 4 is the Cadillac ATS. I have a friend with the 3.6 ATS and it is a glorious engine, super reminiscent of the BMW M52. The turbo 4 is peaky and laggy. Sadly the turbo 4 is the only one of the two offered with a stick.

My parent’s replaced their w126 Benz for an e38 and their w124 Benz with a Jeep Zj. 20 Years later they still own the Jeep and are on their second e38. The performance of the e38 is much better than either Benz and it is still a super solid car.

Pince had a good taste in BMWs and Jeeps.

You guyes are not getting me excited about going to Detroit this next weekend for the show.

I rented a Nissan Cube once and absolutely loved the CVT. It was so cool to play with the throttle and feel the transmission do its magic vectoring engine speed with gear ratio.

This could work. I think this is better than the modern BMW shifter as it at least has individual positions for most of the options.

Mitsubishi Mirage, the cheapest car you can buy in the US now that the Suzuki SX4 is gone. There are Mirages everywhere where I live, most of them in that odd purple/pink color they sell them in. Many of them full blown base models with a 5 speed manual and that is it.

If they bring this to production instead of the IDx they promised a few years ago, I will be sad. The IDx was cute with just enough boxieness to be attractive. Much like many of the great 80s and 90s designs. This is taking the Cadillac approach, only use a ruler for the sketches, and add some curves for…

Yes the 850i was offered with a stick just below 6000 were sold that way if I remember. The 840 was only ever offered with the automatic.

40k would buy one heck of a perfect e39 M5 with enough cash left over to maintain to perfection for 4 or 5 years. It is the quintessential sports sedan.

I now have a 335xi. It doesn’t do any of these things, and the interior is a much nicer place to be. It’s so amazingly competent that it borders on boring.