“And don’t kid yourselves. The foreign cars have quality. They are built by people who care.”

Maybe the 4 series and its’ schnoz will be to the rest of the range what the 2000 CS was to the rest of the Neue Klasse:

This is probably the worst take I’ve ever seen on Jalopnik.

I can see the attraction of the electrified classic concept - upcycling and no nasty gases! - but the outcome is always a crap homebrew EV wearing the scalp of an eviscerated classic.

In this case, because it’s really a 1 series hatch with a boot grafted on. The regular hatch is rather better:

Ah, yes. Sheared bleeding bolts. I feel your pain.

But that’s OK, because, if you believe hard enough, there is no climate crisis.

That visibly begs the question whether you can get a parking ticket for having a car that is just too damn big.

Hah, no. I wish!

Yup. Gramps wants a word.

Waku waku - ワクワク - “exciting, exciting”

Oh, and can someone rehire Stef for Jalopnik, please?

Thank you for sticking with it, and thank you also to whoever sanitises kinja. I rarely see any of that nonsense here.

The Dutch had their first brush with 45-like xenophobic authoritarianism with Pim Fortuyn back in 2001, then Geert Wilders came close a couple of times, and now there’s Thierry Baudet.

Porschniki.

Et voici, votre ‘motte de beurre’

Meanwhile, on Tatooine

Yup- like someone tried, and failed, to turn a Citroën BX into a minivan.

deployable handbook hook

That’d explain. I thought it looked rather DSy in general, but without looking like an actual DS dashboard. For comparison, the Presidentielle was built on a ‘68 DS21, which would normally have this: