It’s a shame he behaved poorly as he really was a star at Ford and drove the rebirth of Ford Performance/Ford’s performance product portfolio. Without question, the right actions were taken, but from a product standpoint it’s a huge loss to Ford.

Also, Jelopnic or Jalopnik? Which publication is more popular in suburban Azerbaijan?

Hello Jalopnik,

Mergio, you’re my spirit animal

Either Mets or Knicks

A Lincoln Mark VIII with inexplicable Frenched-in taillights

That’s a dealer battery replacement. The battery is quite large with high CCAs to ensure that it can handle the load of all of that era-BMW’s proximity electronics (can explain that later). Majority of the expense comes from dealers ripping you off for having to register the battery with the vehicle. While you do…

Yeah so that’s basically the same thing.

Technically it was a series hybrid I thought?

+1 for you and your esoteric BMW knowledge! Project Goldfish is a weird one for sure.

I was surprised that the Land Cruiser didn’t make this list.

Uhh, it’s on the West coast so you’d be giving it to an Asian nation... Not Western Europe.

Current Macan was based off the old Q5 platform.

It’s Q7/Bentayga/Cayenne based. Not Macan.

Hey Rob,

Yeah that’s pretty unusual for a manual ODO setup.

Well, how about that. Ballaban watches the CFL.

The ZF 8HP is the only transmission... for now.

X7 arrives next year

I guess they had to do something with the leftover 200S parts.