Case in point: on Friday morning, I hit a construction barrel. Seriously. I'm cruising along, driving at a normal pace, when a guy in a Chevy Silverado with New Jersey plates – their drivers are the worst – pulls out in front of me and begins moving at the speed of televised golf. So I did what any member of the…

#ConfessionsofaBMWfanboy

BMW = DCT transmission

Yup, and it out-performed a BMW M5 in the slalom at the time due to the sticky Michelin PSS's.

Definitely the best looking in the segment. Thank you Jim Holland for bringing affordable Land Rover looks to the people!

Mmmm, good find.

Yeah, Toyota definitely marketed the shape a lot more heavily. It's surprising what you can do to tune a car shape to get it to slip through the air... Check out this Megafactories episode about the GT-R. Around 11 minutes they start talking about the aerodynamics; specifically how a "boxy" shape can be aerodynamic.…

I was wondering the same thing when I read about the Golf R traction control defeat yesterday. I'm moving into computer security myself, and I'm fascinated by this stuff.

The 1999 Honda Insight had the shape profile 4 years before the Prius did (2003). The first Prius was an ugly blob:

Yeah, even if its small fixes they make a difference. My 2014 FR-S had the knee pads on the sides of the footwells and it made it a lot more comfortable as a daily driver. I also didn't have the "crickets" noise issue under the hood.

I wouldn't buy a first model year car... I'd let them work the kinks out first. I've heard a lot of groans first hand about first year new Camaros and Toyobaru twins. Wait and see what the forums show about early issues and fixes.

To prove my point, let's go back to a time when people got really excited about concept cars. It was the 1950s and 1960s, when concept cars were all the rage. What happened back then was, you'd see a concept car at a show, or in the news, or on TV, and you'd get all excited. "Gall-dangit!" you'd exclaim, as your…

I know you're ready to dismiss Haldex out of hand because you've read those angry, grammatically incorrect forum posts from B6 S4 owners on Vortex 10 years ago (or last week) who derided it as "weaksauce" or "not real AWD" or "gay LOL." Your information is out of date.

Batmanuel es half-hombre half-murcielago!

A V6, huh? You're as bad as those confused people trying to unload a high-mileage E36 on Craigslist.

In California, you can sell up to 5 cars a year without a dealer's license (if my memory serves me correctly). It varies from state to state.

I think this is the wrong view. When President Obama made this promise originally, the EV you were most likely to see on the road was a Volkswagen kit car shaped like a giant pyramid with some lead acid batteries and a 12-mile range. It's only seven years later and there are thousands of electric sedans that can smoke…

America fell pretty far short of President Obama's 2011 call to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. There's a lot of reasons for this, and a lack of charging infrastructure is one of them. So far Tesla Motors has been leading that charge (sorry for the pun) with their Supercharger network, but today…

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While I have mixed feelings about leasing (the last 2 of my 12 cars are/were leased)... I am thankful that CarMax exists and allows you to exit your lease quite easily. My next car will most definitely be a "Tavarish Special."