Fun fact, 99% of the time (anecdotally) the worst a crash looks the better it is for the occupant. As long as the safety cell / cage area stays in one piece and all limbs are safely within the vehicle, the total force absorbed by the body is relatively minor at any given moment in time.

It’ll be the range vs speed game eventually with electrics. And germany is extremely clean with no speed limits so I don’t see that a major impacting factor.

Mother of god, that poor man.

Cop out, BMW abandoned its purist roots a while ago. I know this personally.

I usually agree except for those that actually make me smile. Like a grinning old guy with the windows down ripping around in an R8 with the plate “wifokdit”

What a moron. This is why there are so many cops on that route now.

This isn’t exactly complex mathematics. If you have a given area filled with vehicles with only a driver going from point A to point B or an area filled with the same people going from point A to point B AND the person driving them it removes zero traffic from the road during that time. Then during all other times…

Additionally the B16A Si was only sold in the US for 99 and 00, not the full EK model run.

Fifth Gear: TESTIFY! Automotive needs to wake the hell up.

It truly has nothing to do with that aspect of it, as under vacuum or posi

Must. Make. More......

Amen to that. California was a good launch pad, the Alpha-test if you will, Michigan is the beta- test equivalent. Putting these cars in Michigan weather and on Michigan roads is the equivalent of giving your new software application to a bunch of over enthusiastic nerds unaffiliated with the company just looking to…

Sadly your lead in picture is missing the woman in the import wearing only Takata harnesses. Maybe HR made them remove it finally, ha.

Greatness.

5th: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, improvements to the ICE are like trying to squeeze a rock for water at this point with a horrendous cost benefit ratio moving forward. They need to rewrite this requirement to push automakers and regulators toward spending all these ICE development funds into alternative…

While I love purity of RWD and no hybrids, when are GT3 class organizers going to get with the times? Why not incentivize more automakers to improve hybrid systems through allowing usage on track? I know this could raise costs significantly and people have bemoaned it in F1, but it’s the future and that’s what racing…

I always knew the Detroit show was over rated, this has just confirmed my beliefs (native Detroiter).

Having driven american, French, and German cars at extended lengths for high speeds numerous times I can tell you that just because you can reach that speed doesn’t mean you’re comfortable doing it. The autobahn made me a believer the Germans have an unfair advantage that Detroit (or any country really) can’t ever…

I like BMW (like used to be love back in E-chassis days), but even I can see that this is a phoning it in version of what Porsche does. If it’s supposed to be a “greatest hits” 911 or Cayman GTS then great, but that car is actually a savings on the sum of its parts as options. If they’re going to make a performance…

Doesn’t it also increase the risk they’ll ship the plant to a low cost country? And maybe for a writer who loves his job it’s fine, but I can tell you having worked with UAW and non-UAW OEM’s plants that the non-UAW plants are OVERWHELMINGLY better plant workers. It’s unbelievable how often the lowest common…