Something something cars and coffee.

Floridian here. Flip flops, bottle openers mandatory:

Floridian here. Flip flops, bottle openers mandatory:

Only once did I ever attempt to valet a car. I pulled up to a 5 star restaurant in my track-prepped Miata, complete with bright red harnesses and aluminum seats. One valet opened the door for my wife to flop out of the horrendous buckets and climb out gracelessly...

I hate reading shit like this, seriously. I’ve had four BMWs now ranging from old to new (E30, E36, E39, E82) and all of them have been absolutely bulletproof reliable. I can count the total number of genuine mechanical failures on one hand (head gasket in the E30 at 25 years old, clutch in the E36 at 20 years old,…

Is it so hard to just leave the damn thing in your pocket when driving? Am I seriously the only person left who does this?

Couldn’t agree more. My DD is an E82 128i coupe with a 6MT, and my son happily slides into his Recaro in the back seat and loves all of the zoom zoom.

Except it’s 3D printed out of Koenigunobtanium.

This was Koenigsegg’s development prototype, they were there as a factory team trying to set a lap record. Of course the owner has deep pockets, he builds the cars!

I also had an E36 and an E39, the headlights were almost comical-easy to replace.

Perhaps the one thing BMW continues to do properly. My E82's headlights took almost five whole minutes to change.

That’s cute. Screwdrivers are pry-bars, 19v power drills are screwdrivers.

That dog makes me almost as happy as the car does. There’s an AMG-GT running around my neighborhood in that exact color/wheel combo, it’s GORGEOUS!

I owned a BMW for 5 years and spent well under $500 on maintenance the entire time (oil and brakes). /me thinks these figures are based on people who go to the stealership, and is irrelevant to DIYers.

Deep on the brakes is the only way to do it. ;-)

I can’t roll my foot like that, so it’s ball on the brake, heel on the gas. I’ve tried and I can’t do the sidefoot thing.

Every downshift, every stop, every red light, every day, every time. It’s just good practice.

NavScreen: “Drive safely and obey traffic rules.”

This is all a great misunderstanding. Neither driver was being an asshat at all. They were close friends, actually. The moto rider simply rolled up and invited the Mustang for a cup of coffee, triggering an immediate auto-swerve into the nearest human being.

Didn’t think they hosted Cars & Coffee this close to an on-ramp.

But I WANTED to use my AK!