I’ve lived through the transition from wagons to minivans to SUVs and it goes basically like this:

The BMW N54 HPFP is failure-prone but not super expensive to replace. Remanufactured part is around $350ish or so and the labor’s not too bad. The same HPFP is used on the later single turbo N55 motor. I had to replace mine. The bigger concern and potential repair cost on the N54 is the turbos themselves.

Oooh I’m so here for all the Elon Musk’s asshole sniffers to come out in full force.

You’re probably thinking of the old version of the Soul EV. The new one has the same 201 hp motor as this.

This is incorrect:

Minimum standard to be considered properly quick by me, yes. Properly quick means able to confidently scoot past most typical mainstream cars on the road when needed. It’s not about top speed, it’s about acceleration.

My minimum standard for quick is running in the 13s in the 1/4 mile. In this day and age mid-level compact luxury sedans like the M340i are running in the 12s. Get with the times yo.

I’m a religious new clothes washer. My wife, in spite of generally being much more fastidious than I, for some reason feels no such need to do so. Now I’m going to have to find a strategic opportunity to drop this little nugget of information on her. I’m prepared to incur a little bit of annoyed squinting in response.

I’m a religious new clothes washer. My wife, in spite of generally being much more fastidious than I, for some…

Shockingly, someone in the DC area has a pristine Cosworth Vega of all things. Pics taken by me in October 2019:

Admittedly I was just going off various places on the internet talking about the movie but the first couple places I looked said 535i. This is a screenshot from the movie:

Ronin, which was nominally a movie about a bunch of criminals led by Robert DeNiro galavanting around Europe chasing a McGuffin, feature all sorts of cars. The hero car was an OG Audi S8, and the other main featured cars were an E34 535i, a Peugeot 406, and a Mercedes 450SEL 6.9.

Hey, at least clicking on notifications for replies and starred comments brings actually brings you to the comment now.

Listen fuckface, the race and gender of the people you’re describing have nothing to do with the situation. Even if your experience is that the majority of people around you doing it are a certain race or gender, people of all races and genders are perfectly capable of buying expensive shit to outdo their neighbors.…

I did a little digging this comes down to varying laws by state, as there’s no federal regulation about fogs + brights together. Some states say you can only have 4 front lamps on at the same time, but Minnesota for example says this:

The previous comment was satirical, which I can tell even if I didn’t make it. The point of the satire was to show you that just because you’re a member of some group doesn’t mean you get to stereotype about other groups. But you instead thought someone was just stereotyping you.

Technically the AMG GT don’t-call-it-a-sedan is more mechanically related to the E-Class than it is to the actual AMG GT. But, it’s good.

You take that back, Torch is a national treasure.

Don’t forget “cellulose-based.”