No 1-series? I wouldn't mind seeing them keep that. Good things are happening for it in the aftermarket tuning scene. They can make M-levels of power without an M-budget, and that keeps hoonsters happy.

This is pretty true, and I can't see too much fault with your argument. It might be a recipe for overextension, however. Not that the big 3 German automakers aren't flush with cash...

TTS hasn't been funny in ages anyways. I'd rather watch him work on/hoon his ridiculous, heavenly collection of cars any day.

I'm with you. Similarly, I don't understand BMW's recent attitude of what amounts to brand dilution. "No, we can't have an M3, and M5! We need to make an M4—which is actually a coupe M3, and an M6, which is a coupe M5! We can't just call them 'M3 coupe' and 'M5 coupe!'. Similar stratification going on in virtually…

I guess the two important questions are: A, can they make them, and B, will they work?

Accidental doublepost, sorry.

Apparently car control is a crime now. I've always espoused the idea that driver's education in the U.S. should be more like Finland. There, they're basically taught to be WRC drivers before they can get their mitts on a steering wheel by themselves. It's downright admirable.

Easily our old '99 Dodge Neon. To add insult to injury (it was never a great car to begin with, one that my fiancee, when just out of school, bought second-or-thirdhand) to it being a crapbox, the fuel system had, if I recall right, an evaporation sensor fault, and as a byproduct, would NOT pass emissions. The…