I hadn’t been following along, so I didn’t notice that you went to Germany. I first heard of this from the earlier feature on Curbside Classic, so I’m glad you linked to that too - that’s where I spend most of my time.

It sounds like a good idea, until you realize that insurance for one year for anything in a metropolitan area in Ontario will cost you at least half of your purchase price for your BMW, plus the costs of parking a car in a metropolitan area.

Well, I see a difference between playing your own music in your car, and blasting it for everyone to hear.

Hopefully this truck driver is considered to check his mirrors less frequently than most.

100 km/h (62 mph) is actually the highest expressway speed limit in Ontario, although 120 km/h (~75 mph) is commonplace and doesn’t result in a ticket. It’s extremely rare to see traffic as a whole moving faster than that.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with taking a stand against slanderous statements (perceived and real), and I commend you for actually doing so. I would like to point out, however, that the manner in which you chose to do so really did not help your cause - unfortunately, it appears that you came across as a hater wi…

I do know that you’ve been on the Internet for a long time - I would have thought that you’d recognize the trolling aspect from mister Italian carburettor in an instant.

Please understand that a person engaging in civil discourse does not stoop to the level of someone who just called them dumb. Someone with a calm, rational mindset can merely brush it off, instead of getting even or getting revenge, which may often escalate a situation.

Please consider using factual statements the next time you comment.

David who?

Generally speaking, 70s Mercedes were better back then, because they cost more than two times as much as their “direct” competitors, and people still paid for them. Now, Mercedes-Benz competes directly on price with other luxury brands, so something had to give in between then and now, and that something was…

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Automatics in small cars in Europe, both then and now, don’t tend to sell. As such, development in tuning the automatic to match the other mechanicals probably was hasty.

Whether or not a classic would score well in Daily really depends on where you live, which is something that doesn’t matter for newish cars.

You did have a terrible version - the automatic was the cause of premature abandonment/scrapping of many Americas, since it never worked as well as the manual. Unfortunately, most were sold with automatics, since that’s what BMC thought Americans needed for a second car.

Classic Reviews are some of my favourite articles on Jalopnik.

Well, the surviving MGs are fairly well put together - the terrible ones were crushed years ago.

This is where I think Jalopnik ought to have a 3 section final rating - Daily (unchanged), Driver (unchanged), Depreciated (how Jalopnik thinks the car reviewed will fare as a used car [factoring in reliability, repair, etc.], which is how perhaps half of the readers buy their cars).

We all know the real story - it was stolen so the owner could get out of potential future electrical system repair and air suspension repair bills.

And red, white, blue for ‘Murica