I'm sorry, the CLA250 is roughly 1 million times cooler than the new A3, it's just not a contest in this price bracket. The A3 is legitimately boring.

Just read this out loud and now there's saliva all over my monitor. Thanks.

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…

Fucking. Organ. Solo.

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.

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.

Sure seems like a good opportunity for a vandalism insurance claim - impassable roads, chaos in the streets. "Hey man, somebody just must have torched it."

Wood isn't a CNC-friendly material, in part because no two pieces are alike. If they're talking about a highly refined wood composite / mix, maybe, but that's not something you're going to see outside of interior trim. If you're going to use it in a load-bearing application, it needs to be au naturale. Who knows what…