My bad, I did not know about this one!

I guess it is historic. Why add the “i” at the end of “d” ? If it were to be completely logical, it’d be “320d” and “320b” for “benzin” (like the engine code names) or “320g” for gasoline. 2 letters are useless since nowadays, every car is fuel injected.

You gotta be able to make a difference with the “d” models, which are quite common in Europe.

It’s called the Mini John Cooper Works (JCW). A collegue of mine has one, it sounds surprisingly good for such a small and inoffensive looking car.

It’s funny how a writer living in England manage to snuck 2 French expressions about an exposition in German-speaking Switzerland for a mainly American public.

As we say here “colors and tastes are not to be argued about”.

I considered buying one of these, it is indeed one of the rare drop-top which is beautiful with the top up or down (unlike the Boxster which is weird looking in any of these configurations).

At some point, designers have forgotten about “less is more”

That spoiler is an eyesore.

Team Kristen all the way.

There is a video of a walk-around, and the car looks better than in the picture in my opinion.

Totally agree ... Except for the LC500 which somehow pulls off the over the top design. I guess what works for it is the fact that the car has almost cartoon-esque proportions, so over the top lines is OK.

That is my main beef with the design. There are lines but no volumes. That is especially evident when put next to the first gen.

I agree for the Talisman, it is one of the least bad French cars. But you should keep in mind that French cars are really on the “meh” side of things. I know Jalops seem to love them for some reason (I believe “lack of availability” is the main reason), but truely, they are perfectly designed for the average French…

Full disclosure: I did not read all the comments beacause this argument has been going on for a while. I’d like to give you my Z4 e85 3.0i owner point of view.

I can’t find the plane on controller.com, I guess Kristen made good on her promise to buy it.

Technology  Good ol’ kinematics can be are always fascinating sometimes, even on the most basic of cars pretty much everything.

I can see the day when I’ll let the key to my locked Z4 fall into the trunk and I won’t notice it: the trunk has no handle on the pre-facelift Z4 and can only be opened from inside the car of from the key.

I am a 100% on board with that idea. Engineering masochism is kind of my fetish.

A few years ago I wanted to show off in front of a friend. I told him I’d give him de “rally version” of the road between my home and the train station he had to go to (something like half a mile away, he could have walked there just as fast). There was some gravel on the road and I tried sliding my beloved econobox…