I dunno if I agree on the windshield wipe deal. What I love about my old Benz is that the engineers clearly only wanted the car to have 2 stalks: 1 for cruise control, 1 for everything else.

Google's current on-road test self-driving prototypes support driver handoff... it's the law. I think you might be conflating technical and practical issues inappropriately here. Google, like anyone else, does not know how to solve the practical, safety-oriented issues of driver handoff. The technical part isn't a…

The gen 1 MLs really are the worst Mercedes-Benz ever produced.

aw shit

I have to say, though, when do you ever see a "little" sinkhole? Pretty much every sinkhole that has ever been has elicited a reaction of "HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THAT FUCKING SINKHOLE"

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WHY IS THE MICROPHONE SO FLUFFY

They actually built the world's largest carbon fiber loom, so that's still pretty impressive. Don't know if it's still the biggest, though.

And you completely misread my post: it doesn't matter. The idea of accurately targeting internet ads for a $300,000 luxury car is laughable in the first place. Luxury brands target ads broadly specifically so average people see them. That's not to say they don't also target potential buyers more specifically, but…

Come on, that's a bullshit spin and they know it. Luxury brands rely on average people. If average people who can't afford these things don't know they exist, they can't envy them and aspire to own them, and the brand suffers. AKA exactly why Maybach went down the tubes again: the brand had no cachet.

They found out about matte paint.

Hi Mark.

And you expect nicotine vs non-nicotine vaping to be enforced how, exactly? That's the problem: you can't tell the difference. This basically ensures that from a practical standpoint non-nicotine vaping will face the same restrictions as the regular stuff. Unless they mandate some kind of coloring for nicotine vapor…

Yeah, this thing looks terrible, like a bro'd out Bronco.

It is. The issue is in ensuring the flow of the coolant is not disrupted (eg, pump failure - which is what happened at Fukushima when the backup generators flooded and couldn't keep the pumps operating). This system would basically ensure that there would be no possibility of a circulatory failure, because the cooling…

Factually correct, most definitely. But also not a factory AMG-Mercedes car - that was when AMG was still an independent tuning house.

I have but one question

Yeah, it'll never happen. There has never been a factory AMG-Mercedes with a manual, sadly.

The Mugen Odyssey. Just, yes. So much yes about this.

The fact that the leaping cat doesn't work, I think, shows us what is wrong with this picture: the car.