I hope its windows tint.

...now with self-driving features. Be aware that the glass will break regularly and you might need a new one next year. We’ll round off the edges a bit to make it even more desirable. Ooooh, and pay a 30% premium over the competition, please?

I still haven’t driven an M5. Sort of afraid that I couldn’t go back to my usual fare then.

We had a severe Christmas butter shortage here in Norway, too, a couple of years back. It took people a while to remember that you could just buy cream and fix it yourselves.

Welcome to fuel efficiency class “F* it”.

This is excellent. Just don’t rely on the buy-plane-ticket-online-Uber-to-airport-approach.

I used to come to Jalopnik for cars. Now I am increasingly fascinated by Tyler’s articles about the games endlessly stupid humans still play with each other. As an avid Economist-reader for 12-13 years, I was aware of the bigger picture that is military saber-rousing and showing off one’s balls. But this level of…

Yeah, why change when you’re happy - I’m really not against Mazda. The 6 is the undisputed most beautiful family car around. But, unfortunately, I live in a very wet climate, and Mazdas of all ages disintegrate so quickly, that a used 2005 Mazda 5 or 6 is priced like a mid-90s Volvo - or less. They just disintegrate…

A friend of mine swears by Mazda (he’s on his fourth) and he just loves the zoom zoom-stuff. I understand that it is hard to abandon a slogan people remember and adore. Still, I don’t think it means much, even if your pickup had a sporty trans. =8^) Drove a B2000 for a summer, too, very harsh ride and going faster…

Why not abandon the “zoom zoom” and just stick with “driving matters”? I agree it’s a good ad, but the fuzzy zoom zoom is no less fuzzy now than before I spend that minute watching the ad. Also, the point of offering a full range of cars is pretty neatly presented here - the ad should speak to a lot of people.

Classic car plates in Norway have a 3000km/year restriction, too. There’s a point to it though, you’re not supposed to drive them just like any other car.

Sounds like it! We have some massive kid seats, too, so the third space in second row becomes something like 20cm wide. Requires a decade of waist training to seat one comfortably.

I’d through up about 35 seconds into this video.

Does the Matrix seat seven? The smallest seven seater here is the Peugeot 308, pretty cramped ride.

That was the main competition when we bought it. The 5 is a little bigger still. I can’t sit in the third row (192cm tall), but for short distances it works for grownups. The second row is very tight, too. For now, we have kindergarten kids and that works.

I can answer that very precisely:

I’m not offended. :) Got the used Nissan mats that way because 200$ or more wasn’t going to go.

I figured much the same about junk yards, but my Honda is only sold 148 times in Norway, where I live. Used parts are not plenty.

What? You want to step onto the meticulously maintained municipal lawn? Just...once.

That’s the same hurdle that stsrtled me three years ago, when I wanted to replace a couple of Honda mats.