I’m normally someone who falls on the take-responsibility-for-your-own-stupidity side, but yes this is bad design. No reason to have faux gas tank filler on the other side of the car just to maintain symmetry. The designers should not have won this debate within the company. Somewhere there is a team of safety…

Gotta keep the poors from looting to feed their families.

For the full experience, Dad needs to dock half his allowance for the next four years to pay for it.

“more pleasant and less distracting” ... for you. Maybe people that like sticks don’t think so.

I’m gonna miss deep, throaty V8 and V10 exhausts. I won’t miss fart cans.

yay for spinning tires and torque steer!

The Z4M, in either coupe or convertible form. This design is aging and will continue to age very very well.

I think the issue is that the 90's are not exactly synonymous with muscle cars. Most people think 60's and 70's when they hear the term... THOSE are old muscle cars. In contrast, the 90's was mostly a decade of “meh” from American car companies.

There goes lane-splitting, one of the major reasons for using a bike, in CA at least.

Gotcha. That at least provides context for why this is a discussion then. Thanks for the info.

He’s British. Why would he feel any need to take part in a US domestic protest issue? To say that he’s likely “feeling the pressure” on the issue from any side seems like a big reach to me. It doesn’t concern him, end of story. In fact this whole story seems like a non-story, and a bit inappropriate. He’s basically…

When I was a little little kid, right after Smokey and the Bandit came out, my neighbor won this exact same car in a radio call-in contest. I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen. It’s still pretty cool, and it’s incredible to see such a pristine example. That said, not sure why they did this. It’s obvious…

The sooner the cancer consumes that old coot, the better. There’s a shade of truth in the left-hand thing. An arab will not recoil in fear, but they will not shake left hands with you. It’s an insult. That’s the hand you wipe you butt with. In a culture where so much of the land is waterless, this tradition is…

I rode in PLLLLENTY of these through high school. They pretty much define the word “shitbox.” Plastic craptastic partsbin interiors where nothing quite fit right and everything rattled. An 80's Mustang is CP at any price. A white and gold one in my neighborhood would turn me into one of those horrible HOA people…

I think Volvo’s been killing it with design lately, especially the V90, but I can’t say I’m a huge fan of that rear styling. Maybe it’ll grow on me.

Get what I just got. Debadge the RS4 and V8 labels, and most people will just think you’re in a regular old Audi A4, but you’ve got the 4.2 V8 from the R8, the brakes off a Lamborghini (ceramics if you can find them optioned), and a trick suspension that throws its 2 tons around corners much better than you think it…

If you’re blind, then yes it looks like an Element. That said, I think this is way more attractive than an Element.

Those mitts are decent, but the elastic band that is supposed to grab your wrist is the weak point. They don’t last long, imo.

Those mitts are decent, but the elastic band that is supposed to grab your wrist is the weak point. They don’t last…

This point is indefensible. When the county comes and cleans up his mess for him, then sends him the bill, no sympathy.

I think this solution is ingenious. It will be perhaps slightly less effective if it ever becomes the norm, crooks get wise to it, and they use that extra breathing room to stop and remove the dart. Seems like a minor concern though. If this prevents high-speed pursuits that end in t-boned minivans full of families…