That being said, the stick driver is unlikely to confuse fwrd with reverse.

Probably the money went into a Carmax warranty instead.

Well it’s politically correct to publicly say you hate Baby Driver right now, so I don’t blame you.

Well....

I kinda trained myself to ignore it since I use the chime as my message tone.

You’re missing the whole point, they’re not supposed to make sound. The whole idea is to have a gigantic engine and use a fraction of the power most of the time, so the car feels like “swimming through a waterfall of double cream”.

- Why my 2-seater convertible has 3 cupholders

Well more like adding it back in North American models. In China it was never gone, they always had the colour badges.

But you practically cannot sell anything from a luxury badge without AWD up here. Althought irrelevant now since that market has since shifted to the FWD-based X1 xDrive30i...

Budget ballin’, yo.

Hot take: I actually want a 318i with the B38 3-cyl turbo, provided it’s offered with a 6MT and RWD. Or even better a 2-series Gran Coupe (yes, in 5-door liftback) with the said drivetrain.

Yeah it mystified me at first as well, since the manual makes no mention of that, only on the door. But like I was saying it’s not worth the economy drop.

Lease specials up here are 320xi and not available with ZMT.

91+...

There’s a sticker on the fuel door on my F30 that says it takes 89 minimum. I tried it once and there was a noticeable economy drop.

“Communist”.

Sorry, I had to.

I may have been mistaken. I was under the impression Porsche allows you to do anything as long as you pay them, lol.

Now that you mention that... I see the brilliance of that “real people not actors” ad with the Malibu. One of the non-actors said the Malibu with no badges looked like an Audi, so it was a double meaning saying that their car looks premium AND a jab at Audi calling their cars bland.

Out of those the Skoda actually highlights the issue. Take the badge off, you can say it’s a Volkswagen, Skoda or a SEAT and nobody will bat an eye.