I’ve had enough when I dislike it. For a daily driver: is it so unreliable that I’m constantly chasing down faults and getting stranded? For a fun vehicle: is it available for me to use and do I have to spend as much time getting it ready as actually using it?

It’s Mercedes’s fault I don’t buy Mercedes.

Quality brake pads are necessary to stop your 2-ton hunk of steel and prevent it from killing you or someone else; a USB cable isn’t that.

It’s happened to me, too. I think it’s related to a recent security measure they included in iphones: to protect data from unwarranted snooping, you can’t use USB peripherals unless the phone has been unlocked in the last 60 minutes. They’ve ensured their own cables and chargers don’t trigger it.

Right??

P3P and P4G are both leagues better than their ‘vanilla’ versions, but P5R is better only in gameplay; it really botched the amazing ending that vanilla P5 had. I didn’t miss Morgana telling me to go to bed, though.

I will forever remember that story.

1968, and yes, since ‘69 (nice).

So it all started as an ad campaign that was a series of slogans like:

Huh, I apparently have a copy of it. Neat.

I love the plug-in hybrid Fusion. Thank you for your service and for not buying a soulless CUV.

That would be interesting!

I don’t really get 1st gear. Of course the number of car sales were down: Ford no longer makes the Fiesta or Fusion. If you remove both from the numbers (because they’re no longer being made and are just adding noise), Ford’s car sales are only down 14%. Seems like Ford’s cars did better than the Ecosport, Escape, or…

You’ve got a bunch of other people saying much the same, but most of us didn’t even know snow was coming until Friday, it wasn’t until Sunday that the models suggested a foot of snowfall, and we had hours of heavy rain Sunday night before the snow started such that pretreating roads would have just salted our local…

Counterpoint: an old chassis means that there will be a lot of parts availability and easy swaps between years.

I dig, and I think you and I are looking for different things in these cars, but the 3 I drove was a perfectly fine experience. 

TheSchrat will have a much harder time finding panels for that one-year-only WRX color than for the Bimmer

I both agree and disagree with your last point there, but I would contend BMW’s tech in the 70s and 80s was always about improving the experience of being connected to the road and driving your car (hence: ultimate driving machine). Tesla are also going down the tech route, for sure, but their route is in the…

So it’s ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ both inside and out. At least it’s at a price point befitting that minimalist crap.

I have a buddy who’s big into 3D printing and he’s been a lifesaver.