Pretty much. $20 gets you a fifth of the best bang for you buck vodka on sale today. Also, people who sip vodka / drink vodka martinis are weird. Vodka is a neutral spirit. Unless it's potato vodka, I don't want to taste the damn vodka.

It's a brand of average-quality Italian vermouth BUT THAT IS BESIDE THE POINT LOOK AT THOSE STRIPES.

I'm almost mad at myself for how senselessly, madly in love I am with this god damn livery.

Hopefully everyone was OK. I did notice a distinct lack of brake squeal in the video, though. It looked like Ireland started to slow but panicked and didn't commit full-pedal-down at any point prior to the collision. Of course, panicking is very understandable in that situation, and the other driver is clearly 100% at…

Ah yes, the Wilford Brimley Cleanse.

Fucking. Organ. Solo.

Can confirm re: Zurich. Got Burger King at the airport - I was charged 14 Euro for an original chicken sandwich meal (a small, no less). I savored it.

Well, it's never coming to the US, so I guess it doesn't matter what I think of it. I'm going to tell you anyway, though: no less stupid than all of the rest of the "track edition" hot hatches. Hot hatches aren't meant for race tracks (perhaps apart from rally!). They're fast, practical, relatively comfortable, and a…

Ah, fair enough!

Sadly, it's just not very exciting. The interior is OK, I guess, but the retro vents are a pretty blatant rip of what MB's been doing recently (admittedly, MB probably jacked them from somebody else, too).

These go for high-teens tops, and that's for an immaculate, sub-50k mile car. They are pretty rare, so there's that, but the fact that it was in a movie? Who cares? This car is iconic to Benz enthusiasts and 90's hair stylists, perhaps, but nobody else gives a shit.

I've lived in LA for I guess three years now and I try every day to like it. But the lack of strong public transport (the busses take foreeeeeeever to get anywhere) and the still-decidedly bike-unfriendly culture of LA are going to be hard hurdles to get over.

Wrap it before you lap it.

Funnily enough, I have a '92 300CE and the electric seatbelt extenders still work perfectly after 22 years. The rubber belt guide actually was sawn through by the belt finally last year (and replaced for $17 or something).

2009 - F1 officially endorses the usage of KERS.

I thought the Masterati ad was gag-out-loud bad. And Jaguar's commercial was so corny it hurt. I'm sure it was effective, but good god it was painful to watch.

Of course, but the fact is those wear and tear items are generally significantly more expensive than on most comparable cars of the era. Bilstein struts, Bosch cap and rotor, Bosch O2 sensor, Karlyn plug wires, Mercedes OEM window regulators, Mercedes mufflers, high-end Behr radiator, etc. And even off-brand parts…

Are Jalopnik scores dead? Because I'd be entirely OK with that.

W123s are indestructible... until they break. There's a tendency to confuse durability with reliability when it comes to old Benzes.

I had a buddy in high school who got his dad's old '87 F-250. Thing was indestructible, and let's be realistic, when you're a kid in high school, you can't go wrong with an older American pickup truck. Especially a big one.