I have a current-generation Sport. I can’t speak to the diesel powertrain specifically as I have a V8, but it’s a great, practical size and drives surprisingly well for such a heavy vehicle.

There’s a U.S. class action in federal court in Michigan. You might consider contacting those lawyers, they’d probably be interested to hear about this range problem.

I believe this is the DOJ on behalf of the EPA—like, the DOJ acting as the EPA’s lawyers—so it probably mostly goes to the EPA’s enforcement and cleanup budget, and some to the DOJ’s enforcement budget. Otherwise, it would go to the treasury.

Not from the DOJ penalty, but they already did from the related class action settlement—roughly $3k each, plus an extended warranty.

I was driving the car behind that Alpina B12 on the way into the show, and turned to my dad in the passenger seat, not having seen a single other entrant other than my own, and said “I hope that wins Best in Show.” After seeing all the competition, it was still the winner in my book, with the closest competitors in my…

I have a relative with a TDI who kept it after Dieselgate (took the fix and the money, of course, just not the buyback) but added a vanity plate that says “BADVDUB” or something very similar.

Nothing makes a new model sound like it’s probably bad than paying for advertorial bullshit like this rather than earning actual good reviews...also, remember when G/O blogs used to criticize sponcon like this? At least it’s reasonably well marked as such, but big yikes.

I’d be happy to serve as co-counsel.

In some ways, it was more of a cross-examination than a conversation, with a lot of shouting over me

Have you seen what these are going for? Given the mileage and presumably current California tabs, a good detail alone would probably take this over $6k on BaT. NP all day and twice on Sunday.

Regardless of her race, it will be interesting to see how it plays out--negligent discharge of a firearm is an accurate charge but seems like another charge or two might be in order as well.

I thought there was proper screening and background checks.

Mid-oughts BMWs would go into limp mode if the hood wasn’t fully latched, or at least my E46 M3 would. Real problem if the latch was at all wonky, as it was on my M3.

$280k CAD is $214k USD, which is in fact quite close to $200,000.

Fortunately, my parents live in the same city as me and I have dinner with them about once a week. My sister lives about 900 miles away but drove up here and has been staying with them or with me for much of the autumn. I’ll be seeing them all for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Everyone is on the same page about the…

I’ll sell you mine—originally delivered in Japan, imported properly from Canada last year, and fully U.S. legal—for $5k less.

Some kind of Rover/Sterling is an interesting possibility!

My guess is a local-assembled Ford or Mazda model with aftermarket quarter panels/fender flares. There are lots of weird period modifications on the Capella/626 in Japan, for example.

Are you blaming the customer for not preventing their new car’s entire roof for blowing off on the highway?

It goes considerably farther than mere sponsorship in this case...the same family controls both FCA and Juventus, and they are sufficiently entangled that Fiat factory workers went on strike over the transfer fee Juventus paid for Ronaldo.