100% with you. If you leak information at Apple, you will have your hands cut off and be fired. They are calling it “vows” and that’s fine, it’s just a confidentiality agreement.

So... Will the Z4 be Über-reliable, or will the Supra eschew the Toyota reliability?

It looks very Lexus-ified.

I agree that’s probably one of the best 9-3 SportCombi’s that you’ll find, but it’s not the TurboX model that’s the real unicorn of the family.

The Saab 9-3 TurboX Sportcombi is basically a unicorn.

Tom,

I would also imagine that a lot of the cladding is screwed on, so it may cause more damage than good to remove it, depending on where in the design/testing phase the car is.

The new WRX (non-STi) is actually pretty good from an MPG perspective.

Kind of assuming you have/had a Wrangler based on your name. I also had a Wrangler before my WRX.

“Early this morning an Air Niugini Boeing 737 overshot the runway”

I agree with you - this is much closer to the old AMG days (S55 AMG, etc) where they are sleepers if you don’t know what you’re looking for.  Typical standard top trim MB model + quad exhaust tips + AMG wheels and a very subtle bumper change.

For every person who is trying to pull over in a safer place, there’s at least 1 person who may have a gun/other motive for not doing the norm.

A large portion of the flight will probably be people traveling for business, in which case I would pick 18 hours on 1 metal tube over 8 + 10 hours or 16 + 3 hours on one.

Here’s a somewhat similar but flipped situation that I encountered (but didn’t end up buying the car):

Agreed - It feels like they collaborated with BMW on some design specs, and are re-skinning the BMW package into a Supra with nenw bodywork, then tuning/tweaking it.

Cathay is great - I fly them frequently.  It’s similar to what I imagine flying was like years ago - they actually care about service / you having a decent flight in my experience.

Cathay is fantastic - I fly them from the states to China frequently. I would put my money on this being a PR/Marketing stunt. Realistically it’s not going to cost $200k to fix this, and even if it did, that’s pennies to get their brand name in front of everyone. Most people haven’t even heard of them.

In this case, BaT is actually a great way to sell the car.  Most auction houses would charge a VERY significant premium and don’t cap.

Looks great.  I’m betting that with this gaining 3rd row seats and a 3" longer wheelbase, it will enable MB to increase the GLC size during its next refresh.

I posted about an E-Type too.