FTFY

Meanwhile, we europeans are still scratching our head over this site’s obsession with manual, diesel wagons. It’s like if I said to my friends: “while in the US, i drove the tail of the dragon/laguna seca/whatever, in a... wait for it... a four-door F150! the one with the turbo V6! and, guess what, it even came with a…

Audi S6, slightly used. Lovely cars and easily tunable to north of 600HP...

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Nope. Punters are not special at all. With you’re logic, there’s less than 32 people in this world who can memorize 50 decks of cards in 30 minutes but I wouldn’t pay any of them a dime to do that. We’d be completely fine if you paid NFL punters the exact same wages as the 3.2 million teachers - these same punters…

The nominative plural for ‘nox’ is ‘noctes’, so I guess technically, it would be ‘equinoctes’ if we were following the rules for just that part of the word. That’s if we don’t bother with changing the adjective part as well (it’s been decades since Latin class, so I don’t even recall if that’s necessary).

Your point couldn’t be any more poignant than the value of “artists”. Jackson Pollock paintings are worth over $100 million, and yet how much time did he spend painting any of them? How does the value of that painting compare to a $100 million water sanitation system for a city in East Africa? Society has crazy…

Actually, NFL players from the 1950s sacrificed their body equally so, but for the love of the game because they were paid very little. Just because advertisers are now supporting the league doesn’t make the job worth any more than it was 60 years ago. Unlike physicians or attorneys, who have always been paid well…

Sadly, less than 1% of Ferrari’s customer base is willing to pay for the manual transmission option to justify its existence.

I’m a Ferrari guy through thick and thin, but these new models (812, Portofino) aren’t doing it for me. They’re starting to look more and more like catfish with braces. If I want a two door sports car, with tons of pedigree, top notch workmanship, and that will hold it’s value in the years to come; I’ll go with…

Holding out for the Clarity plug-in myself.

RUF CTR

personally I like the 128i as it’s the last 2-door BMW with the NA straight six that’s been living under roundel’d hoods since the 70s in one form or another.

I think it’s a mistake to recommend the 2-series over a 135i. The 135i has a hydraulic steering rack, while the 2-series sports BMW’s electric rack. The 2-series is a faster car out of the box, but I didn’t feel like it was any more connected. I thought it was a bit numb, to be honest.

Many marketing people are mostly ambitious backstabbers fighting for the next promotion. It’s pretty ugly. True marketers rarely get the credit that they deserve and are often burned by the alpha types that trample all over them.

Your statement scratches the surface of a deeper issue with the Bolt. It’s a $36K vehicle styled like a $14K budget compact. Even someone with an average income wouldn’t want to be opening their garage and seeing that thing. The styling alone makes you feel like you failed at life. A wealthy person wouldn’t be…

I really like the cars and coffee edition

Don’t try arguing with these mini-van folk. It’s like arguing with Miata folk. I mean, why would four adults in white tie want to sit in a luxury crossover when they could just as easily be sitting in a 10 year old cloth Sienna with 80 lbs of cookie crumbs?

Its an emissions thing

And Jaguar has had it on the XJ since 1998. Even better, it’s via an attachment on the wiper arm rather than in the blade so you don’t need to shell out for expensive special replacement wiper blades.