While staying between the lines is generally a good idea, a good driver needs to use their own judgement. In cities the turn lane markings are often poorly thought out and will attempt to force cars to follow lines that are both awkward and mess with the clean flow of traffic. You can always spot an inexperienced…

“beetle”

I’m pretty sure the VW Beete was the real inspiration of this design concept, but calling it “skateboard based” does sound more tech-cool-modern.

A white on white K1200 would look great next to my 1000SEL.

I spent a decade running the floor at small punk shows, and love the intimate intensity a powerful band can get with the audience in a small venue. I’ve also seen many famous bands in large stadium style shows. The only performer I’ve ever seen so intense, talented, and athletic that they can make a venue shrink -…

Any Panther makes a great city car, but you have to like old school American interiors and styling (I do). Older BMWs like this 733i are very durable and nice to drive, but have somewhat weak suspensions and will rapidly wear out bushings and lose alignment. The chassis and suspension of a W116/W123/W126 Mercedes will…

What are you using for a comparison? Jags from this era are way more reliable than a similar year M5 or even 540i - to say nothing of the nightmare an early 2000s AMG or Audi will put you through...

This is a great thread! Many of my favorites already mentioned, and many unfamiliar artists that I look forward to trying. There are two songs I want to mention that are always poignant to me - and I always find myself listening to them after breakups or any other emotional loss:

I always heard that line as:

Bummer about your hand injury!

Whenever my college girlfriend had been drinking and we saw Yugo, she would point at it and yell “You get in - and Yugo!”, then she would giggle and giggle and snuggle against me. It never seemed to get old to her, and although it may sound dumb, it was actually really cute :)

I had a friends V8 Phaeton for a day and walked away completely unimpressed. It was as if someone had taken a premium luxury sedan and sucked out all the fun and style - a Bentley forced to wear an ill fitting gimmicky Passat suit.

I have two white vans! One does look pretty creepy. I once built a swarm of electric bees for Burning man using kids bicycle

Yeah - this is nearly rear-engined rather than mid-engined.

Its not exactly that cars are too fast, its that what makes a street car seriously fast generally takes away from what makes a car fun. Huge tires and stiff suspensions give huge cornering ability, but they also mean dead steering and dull slot car like feel in turns. Generating sub 4 second 0-60 times requires not…

It wasn’t until I was reading these stories I remembered a car so foul I think my brain repressed it! I was a teenager working for a car rental agency near what was then Fort Ord. We had some enlisted men rent a Ford Taurus for the weekend then leave it on base when they deployed overseas. An annoying but not uncommon…

I would the spend the entire $970 million buying the rights to the Tata Nano, then add whatever safety equipment and emission controls are needed to get it certified for US sale. If there is any money left over, it will be used to establish a dealership network in Montana.

Every single Trump support I know also insists that they are a libertarian. I think the key similarity that binds these groups is a core of ignorant self righteousness, and a belief that showing empathy would somehow make them weak.

Who did they get to dive down and shine a light on the hull while they extracted it?? All that force and weight unpredictably shifting in the cold dark water - and the sound! That has to be one of the most nightmarish places I can image being.

I abandoned BMW and MB for Jaguar about a decade ago and have been very happy about that choice. The Jags have been far cheaper to run and maintain, and are nicer to drive. What boggles me is that my other car friends will pour thousands into modern German cars for stuff that just shouldn’t break (All new cooling…