Yep - totally agree. As soon as my run-flats wear out, I always switch to non-RFTs. It was $600/tire to replace with new summer RFTs on my 3 series. Meanwhile, I can get a new set of decent, non-RFT summer tires for $900.  It doesn’t make any damn sense.

The intervals are what can get you. My friend tracks his M5. He bought the car new with the ceramic brake pads option. After a full summer of track events the brakes needed replacing and BMW initially refused to replace them due to the low mileage interval. Out of pocket cost was over $16K to replace pads and rotors…

I don’t get the SUV hate either. They’re a hell of a lot more fuel efficient than 10-15 years ago and they offer better visibility than sedans and wagons. For anyone who lives in an area that gets significant snowfall, ride height makes a huge difference in driving through snow and seeing over the giant piles that…

Maybe I’m doing it wrong but when I’ve got the track mostly figured out and am braking, hitting the apex’s and accelerating at the right points and making less and less mistakes I find flying around the track to be incredibly therapeutic.  But that never happens in the first lap - it takes a while to get there. 

LOL- I went to look this up and the first main Google image you get for “john casablancas” shows the lead singer’s father hanging out with Trump.

I’m kind of glad Shannon is one of the few people “suffering” through this.  She seems like a miserable person anyways.

I can relate as an Asian-American also. My wife and I own a small condo in Laconia, NH, which is HD-central. During the summer, there is a Hell’s Angels tent across the street from Weirs Beach that sells Hell’s Angels merchandise. Everywhere we go in that area, we are typically the only Asian people in the…

I grew up in an Evangelical Church. I left the congregation as soon as I graduated high school. The church does an excellent job teaching its followers how to use the Bible to justify being an asshole. For example: My cousin (who is an Evangelical minister) has 4 kids. His wife died of cancer and he desperately needed…

To be fair - it seems pretty wasteful to have a TV project “Concourse A is closed FOREVER” all day long.  

We’re all pretty lucky that nobody got killed in the missile strike. There were a few buildings that got turned to craters. I believe they intended to kill someone and missed.  We (including Trump) literally dodged a missile on this one.  

Why all the outrage? Klaus is pretty accurate in his assessment of the current EV market and it’s totally reasonable to predict that BMW will be making gas-powered engines through the next 30 years. Not sure how you derive “BMW doesn’t care about EVs” from that assessment. There is a huge group of BMW enthusiasts who…

The movie is OK but the Flights of Passage ride in Disney World is freaking amazing.

That’s amazing!  Congrats on finally getting to drive one - my 6 year old lives for Monster Jam.

A lot of the issue is also greater Boston cities who refuse to allow public transit in their neighborhood. Melrose has two commuter stops and the Orange line (Oak Grove). Other neighboring cities like Stoneham and Saugus have been pestering to build a parking garage at Oak Grove to house more cars/commuters. What…

SUVs are getting a lot more efficient these days. My wife and I have an X5 plug-in hybrid that weighs about 5300 lbs (roughly 2000 lbs heavier than most sedans). If we used it strictly for commuting purposes (in city-only driving) we could easily go 700+ miles on a single tank of gas. When the battery is empty it…