High mileage e46 owner here. My engine works just fine. Plastic surge tank is annoying, but replacing it every 120k miles isn’t that bad... Oil pan gasket around that time was a pain, most of that trouble was because it’s an XI. All in all, I think BMW did a fine job even back in the early 2000s. I’m sure they’ve only…

Sounds like it’s almost there. I like sedans and wagons though. Hopefully they’ll put that equipment in a proper car. THAT would be perfect. More manufacturers need to get away from the FWD concept too. It made sense with gas engines because the engine needed to be up front in most cases, but since electric motors are…

Agreed 100%. As a person that works on his own car, I recently came to the realization that the vast majority of the work I perform is because my car has an ICE. As soon as I can afford a BEV with 250hp, a range >200 mi with the AC on full blast, and weight not more than 3500 lbs, I’m buying it. I’m done with…

I don’t understand how Alonso expects to just jump in an indy car and win the Indy 500 without participating in at least a few other races. It doesn’t seem like something you just pick up in a weekend. He should just do an Indy season. It’s not like he’s doing much else these days. His unwillingness to do a complete In…

What’s with the extra rear sprocket? Looks like the chain is around another, much smaller one. Maybe a drive chain for the motor? For $75k someone can put a rusty drive chain on it for me.

What’s narrow about women without dicks that weigh less than 150 lbs? Pretty sure there are a lot of people that fit that description. Believe it or not, there a lot of women that aren’t plus sized and, you know, have been women their whole lives.

Nope! You decide to bring them into the world, you’re responsible for not killing them through negligence. Forgetting a fucking child in your car is negligent. It’s not a half gallon of milk or even a dog. It’s another human. If you can’t avoid killing another human, a human you placed in a car seat yourself, you are…

Typical parent stuff. “Wah, I decided to reproduce so now I can’t do simple things. Wah.” We all should hope for cars to be adjustable like this one. How many cars out there don’t let us turn off the traction control? I’ll take having too many options than no options.

It wasn’t. Go ahead and be shocked that someone would prefer that a small amount of funding go to something other than the traditional causes. In truth, every single one of use makes that choice every day. We buy new cars instead of buying the absolute minimum and donating the balance to feed hungry kids. We buy 2-3…

Ha! That’s inaccurate at least as far and engineers go. It’s one of the few educational investments that makes financial sense. Engineers have a pretty high employment rate.

Eh. It’s pretty common knowledge he was into motorsports.

Edit: It was his widow, not his daughter.

Yes. I can be sad about the loss of advanced technological educational opportunities at my school. While, plenty of organizations around the world sponsor overseas programs that help combat hunger and lack of education, STEM funding that will benefit people that I actually see and a state I live in isn’t always easy…

Since Mr. Newman died, Newman’s Own doesn’t care much about motorsports. Had a buddy that was on an FSAE team in CT that was sponsored by Newman’s foundation on the basis that they were an educational org AND obviously Mr. Newman liked motorsports. Once his daughter took over, the sponsorships stopped despite the…

This is not news. Typical occurrence in trademark registration prosecution. Thank you for writing an article about the most boring aspect of a boring process.

I have a hard time feeling bad for a guy who’s had a pretty privileged life. Maybe he should have kept everything on the level if things could have possibly ended up like this. He could have paid someone to cover his ass. He was sloppy and took what he had for granted while pissing people off that could hurt him.

How many were Instagram “influencers?”

It’s a VERY safe bet that I’ve had more performance cars than you, including dedicated autocross and SCCA cars, as well as a ton of daily drivers, including many that people consider sports sedans.

Because that’s how we say it in America? I’ve never heard it your way, at least not near me. Also what Rural Corn Dog stands said.

What? No one uses BMW engines to drift?