I agree. This all seems like a waste of perfectly good letters to me. Scions will be Toyotas now. The end.

I bought a 128i in October because my cousin had such excellent luck with her E90 328xi (over 100k miles, only services and wear items). I obviously can’t speak to long-term reliability, but my thinking was this is the last opportunity I was going to get to drive a naturally aspirated BMW. And the prices on the 128i…

Agreed! Big grill up front and style the rest of the car to look like a VHS tape left in a hot car.

Wow. That’s an amazing comparison.

Is the phrase “good Jalop” part of the lexicon? I’ve not seen that, but I like it.

Have you a link to any info on these GTE models you mentioned?

I came upon this discussing a little late. This is definitely a situation where 100% of buyers will have cross-shopped the two cars OR 100% of buyers will have not cross-shopped the two cars. However, there seems to be some confusion as to which absolute is correct. Am I up to speed?

Ok, I see now. I do want that sort of impartiality in car reviews.

I’m not disagreeing with a word of what you wrote, but I don’t want a bit of it! I don’t want impartiality in my auto review. I want the writer partial to vehicles that excite auto enthusiasts. And if a company wants to make vehicles that aren’t for auto enthusiasts, I want the journalist to shame them. If only…

Agree. It isn’t as though the B9 hasn’t gotten any more attractive, but many modern cars have passed its level of unattractiveness.

I didn’t say it was a good joke. I only pointed out that his jest shouldn’t serve as a trigger for your vitriol.

Lighten up, Ethan. I believe he was making a joke.

An S4 with a roof rack for bikes or a cargo box is the proper configuration. That’s what I told my boss when he bought his diesel Q5 last year. We’ll see if the rarity of a bastardized diesel is enough to make him right, but I’ll bet I come out looking pretty wise in the long run.

Perfectly stated. It’s a shame the 130R concept wasn’t realized with exactly the specs of this cartoon.

Would you Los Angelenos please explain the Mullholland scene to me? I see this crowded, heavily-policed road in videos all the time. There never seems to be less than 40 bystanders on every turn (the kind of people who shout “Turn the car off!” at people who just crawled out of their moonroof and are so stunned they…

The digital “needle sweeps” at start-up make me long for the very recent past. Lame.

If cars are cool because they promise the freedom to go wherever we want whenever we want (and I believe that this is largely true), than an electric car can never really be cool. There are too many limitations to that freedom. An electric car can be the right product for its time and place, but that’s not cool.

Thank you! This is where the conversation should have went (not whether or not cheap pizza is okay to eat instead of more expensive pizza). Delivery drivers, in my high school career at P—— H—, are paid small amounts of cash to drive their personal car (filthy beater) to your house to give you food. If Dominos wants…

1998 GS400 for $5,600. Certainly the remaining cash can be spent on gilding emblems and go-fast bits.

People that like the Crossfire, REALLY like the Crossfire it seems. I’m sure if psychologists studied such things, they would find there’s some latent ship captain living inside 10% of adult men.