My answer is very specific to my case but may apply to other people tracking moderately heavy cars: brake cooling ducts.

Oh it’s very simple. It means “we’re selling vaporware but there’s no chance in hell you’ll be honest about it”.

Ever since I got into car I am finally happy to be a short guy (5'5) while it was bothering me before.

I don’t get the hate for the Z4 styling. It looks fucking tame by today’s standards and I find it to have aged really well. It puts a smile on my face every time I walk up to mine.

I voiced my concerns about the POStal. After being proven wrong, I didn’t say a thing about the FC. After seeing the video, I’ll never ever again doubt your resolve to bring a pile of rust back from the dead.

I promise not to cry as the bodywork place keeps sending me bills for my Datsun 280Z they’re restoring from the ground up.

You disregard the fact that the additional weight induces a proportional force during accelerations. Since a tire coefficient of friction decreases with load, loading up the rear of a FWD car will make it more tail happy. That conclusion applies for acceleration, turning and braking, which, for the rear undriven tires…

Aerodynamics engineer here. I take issue with that take. Calling a car “aerodynamic” as short for “low drag” is over-simplifying things to the point of making the entire article conclusion false.

Hey man! You’re the owner of that car? I didn’t mean to put you down, I was just puzzled by your build. I’ve never been to the South East or France so I don’t know what the roads are like. I grew up in Alsace where the “courses de côte” take place on asphalt, I know little about gravel roads near Marseilles.

Regarding…

Hey I saw this ad months ago! You almost never find ads like this in France, as you wouldn’t be allowed to drive it on the road. Our laws regarding car mods are strict beyond reason, so anything that isn’t stock sticks out.

Thanks for sharing this. Now I feel better about paying 16k for a rolling and partially restored Datsun S30.

I wish I could get my hands on an Impala for less than 3k$!

Thanks for the advice. I’ll be staying in the US for 6 weeks for work and may use it. I was considering some high mileage Suburban or something like that but your way seems more sensible (although I like my idea better for a taste of americana).

Or you could do what I did and go full-on cheap skate / DIYer from hell and build a semi functional kinda NAS with a Raspberry Pi

I’m not one to shit on writers because I generally enjoy the site, but when I read that take, I scrolled back to the top to check if it was Brad who wrote it.

I get all the love for the Yaris GR but you guys forgot about the new A110. I know it lacks a manual but apart from that it’s awesome.

God it’s depressing watching the comments in this sort of articles. It’s like giving internet to toddlers after you’ve introduced them to the concept of “rules”.

The idea is that they are not more dangerous that a scooter.

In European cities, those micro cars make a lot of sense to commute to work. If they were subsidized to be cheaper than a full size EV they’d be a tempting proposition as a second car. The number of households with 2 cars is not negligible so that’d actually take big cars off the road for people in 2 car households.…

Wait, I thought Europe was a country?!