I think I’m the problem. I have an e92 that I can’t afford to replace, and I am pretty sure BMW’s just trying to make me not feel bad about that.  I have to say, it’s really working.

Yes, and yes. I don’t know what he’s missing, but those “corrected” versions were 100% better. Not great, but, wow, MUCH better. And are they too big? Oh hell yes. That coupe looks like a stretch limo. Or, worse yet, an 8 series.

I can just imagine the crash avoidance system defending itself, saying: “Come on, I knew that freakish thing wasn’t a real person. Did you see how it was walking? It’s going haunt my dreams.  Uggh. (shivers).”

No way they pull this off without a hitch.  Something will go wrong, like the heat will make the controller bug out, and then these things will start blowing themselves up in the parking lot.

That Bugatti Chiron imitation is every bit as good looking as the real thing.

Me too. There is clearly no way that the screen can go between the middle seat passenger and the aisle and window seat passengers they will be facing, or then there would be no way to get into each row. This is just encouraging weird eye contact for hours at a time and coughs and sneezes to project in the direction of …

It has toilets designed so incredibly poorly that the entire system needs to be unclogged and flushed out with acid, yes acid, on a regular basis, at the cost of $400,000 a pop.

It’s interesting that the Discovery Channel, a network which once focused on science, technology, and history has devolved in a way to air shitty reality television and science ignorant programming like this. Shame, that.

WOOF!

That looks like it may be the same frame as my mid-90's Trek 970 (by then, Trek had acquired Gary Fisher). If so, after I had done all the work to get it back into shape as an okay modern MTB, I realized that it probably had the potential to have been a perfect road frame based on its geometry. That was something I…

I have done the same thing, though with my own mid-90's mountain bike that had been sadly sitting in my parent’s garage for 20 years until I picked it up and decided to give it a new life. I was lucky enough with the spacing of things on that frame that the mounting points were fine for a v-brake switchover as long as…

Holy shit those make the hideousness of this thing that much more apparent.

I disagree. The Zagato Vantage is not evidence of Zagato being good; it is evidence that the Aston Martin design language is so beautiful that even Zagato can’t F it up so much that it isn’t still pretty good looking. While I don’t have to avert my eyes with this one as much as many other Zagato abominations, I 100%…

Yup. I get the same feeling from them that I do when I see a clip from some designer on the runway. That is, I come away convinced they are actually playing a big joke on the viewing public, and secretly laughing at them when they agree that it’s all brilliant.

I clicked into this just to see what other angles were more hideous than the rear, because I knew that rear wasn’t the worst Zagato could do. After seeing the side profile, my suspicions were confirmed.

And remember back when all of these used to be in stick?

Agreed. Seems like this is probably what it will look like. In fact, I think it’s probably the same car. I pulled this image from their website today, right there on the main page when you click “Vehicles.”

And this — just sitting right there on their website. Looks pretty much identical to the picture above, no?

I mean, isn’t it just easier to get a car you like, and, while you wait for it to get a ding so bad you can’t stand it, ask around for a reasonably expensive PDR place so you have one ready to call? It’s not like every ding needs to be fixed, and for those that do, it’s not that expensive.

Yup. My thoughts exactly.  It acknowledges the existence of real problems.  But it does so by pedaling a metric that means nothing, can’t be proven, and is therefore, at bottom, no more informative than a horoscope.