He knows if you leave your high beams on people won’t notice you have a burned out headlight. 

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For what this thing will likely sell for you could probably just about get a Corvette. 

Plus one on Oktoberfest, it is absolutely phenomenal. I combined my trip with a 911 rental and some autobahn blasting a few years back. I would definitely do it again but glad I got in at least one trip. 

Yes. I’ve found BMW interiors to be unpleasant (compared to cars in the segment) for a long time and the gap between them and Mercedes has only been getting bigger in recent years (Audi beats them by a wide margin too IMO). BMW was always the enthusiast choice, if you wanted something a little more sporting than the…

This. I save money so I can be secure but also so I can SPEND it on things that make me happy, both in the future and in the now. There is a whole lot of room in between living paycheck to paycheck and being some miser who dies on a big pile of cash. You can’t take it with you. 

Yes and no though. I’ve done 0% loans or even loans of a few percentage points for amounts I could pay in cash. It is essentially free money that I can hold and a) earn a return on during the life of the loan and b) provides added liquidity during the loan. We talk a lot about average buyers who are not financially…

This is the right take. Car companies, and life in general, is too serious. Have you seen the Ford add that goes something like: during COVID we took care of you by building ventilators so now you owe us, buy one of our miserable soul crushing CUVs. Do I agree with everything Musk does? No. Am I really glad that at…

Such a shame for limo service. I far prefer the backseat of a 7 Series to any SUV. Even the back of a Continental was a nice place to be, albeit not as much as German counterparts.

Not sure about that. Fancy SUVs seem very aspirational luxury to me. Top of the line luxury cars from BMW, Mercedes, Bentley, and Rolls Royce are all still sedans - with the last two only getting into SUVs pretty recently. Luxury brands are cashing in on the SUV craze in as lazy a way as they can (Q7/Bentayga/Urus) to…

I started drinking 3 days before a flight home from Vegas and it worked out. I’ve honestly never slept so well on a plane.

Range Rover was also the first thing I thought of when I saw the lead photo. 

Agreed. I can’t stand CUVs in general but I actually don’t hate this. That is definitely the right color for this car as well. 

I’m a car guy and used to be able to recognize any car on the road but these little SUV/CUVs are all just pods to me. I couldn’t imagine the depression that would come from looking out into my driveway and seeing one of these.

I don’t ever want to say dependability is a bad thing but it being a car’s primary selling point undermines the luxury aspect for me. Luxury is not having to be practical. It’s like buying an expensive belt but one that is reversible so you know, it’ll go with everything so you’ll get your moneys worth. It may seem…

I also had one as a loaner. Decent driving car but the interior really let me down. Cheap plastics and ugly design. Jaguars are not historically the best built cars but you should feel special sitting in them. It was like being in a low spec BMW but worse.

While I agree on the halo car concept I feel like Honda did expect to sell more. They priced it competitively in the market (as contrasted with the LFA), they didn’t make it a limited production run (like say Ford’s halo GT), and it was designed to be user friendly and every day livable. They tried to build an R8 and…

Part of me just cannot wrap my head around how much these sell for. The other part knows if I were a billionaire and another billionaire was bidding against me to have this car, I’d pay a silly amount for it too.

I wouldn’t say no one. I’d never buy a FWD car. I do understand I’m the exception though. 

Great post David. I’m actually going to be doing some wrenching this weekend on a boat that will be kept in a salt water environment - so serious rust concerns. I’m putting on new manifolds and risers but I’ve read for this job specifically NOT to use any kind of anti-seize lubricant as it can cause the bolts to work…