What makes you think this couldn’t happen to you? Oh, because you’re not a shitty parent huh? We can’t imagine this happening to us, but it happens often enough to a diverse enough group of people that I believe it could happen to anyone. Anyone that suddenly had a lot more work and stress placed on them. This is the…

if it work, it works. 

The M3 is probably a lease. 

I mean, the F80 may one of the worst M3s but its resale values aren’t bad. Most people who buy M3s these days just buy them as status symbols. The going rate for an off lease car is about $45-$60k depending on if it’s CPO and options. The going rate for an E90/E92 is about half that. The F80 is probably one of the…

Most people throw their cars away at 100,000 miles, so that’s really not that much money at all.

Last time I went to Korea in 2005, there were a ton of German cars there. A bunch of 5 series and E class cars. 

I always noticed these on my old Nissan and never knew what they were. I just thought they were to vent HVAC system or to provide some sort of equilibrium with the outside air pressure.

Good wagyu or Kobe is like foie gras. I don’t think anyone should eat a whole steak of very fatty meat. It’s a delicacy to be enjoyed in small quantities. Very rich foods like that are all too much to handle in large quantities.

If you don’t like it, totally reasonable. It’s very different from what you’re used to and many people aren’t very good at trying new things. However, I don’t think real Japanese Kobe is overpriced. Have you seen how they take care of the cows? The cows drink beer, get massaged by humans, and lazily graze in idyllic…

You could get the same V8 in the CLK. The build quality seemed fine to me. I’m very big on build quality, even down to the type of plastic used on buttons and the fitment of panels. The CLK was near indistinguishable from what I could tell. I’m assuming you owned a CLK and didn’t like it? 

I can’t even tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. If you are, I apologize, but there are people that say what you said completely seriously. 911s obviously don’t make huge changes in design, but they’re very obviously different cars. 

No, this is actually the new Skyline coupe Nissan co-developed with Porsche.

Oh please, we have tons of unsafe cars on the road. Also, you can import a 25 year old car just fine. Are you telling me that a 25 year old non-compliant car is safe and a 24 year old non-compliant car isn’t? 

The whole point of this is to deter this type of activity in the future. A lot of countries do this. America does this ALL THE TIME. It may seem stupid to us, but you have to admit that for people that like cars, this is likely to deter this type of behavior in the future. If they’re auctioned, what’s stopping the…

I had a Grand Cherokee Overland. I personally like it, but the quality of the car is hugely lacking compared to any real luxury brand. Sure, it’s got all the features like air suspension, heated/cooled seats, leather dashboard, etc, but it’s all a big notch below in quality. The air suspension is loud and seems like…

When most folks talk about certified pre-owned often called CPO for short, they are referencing vehicles that, according to the manufacturer, meet a certain standard and qualify for an extension of the new car warranty.

That’s true, but the American M3 never got the 6 speed. The pre-LCI Euro E36 M3 had a 3.0 282hp engine and the refresh is when it got the 317hp engine. The American M3 only got a 15 lb-ft torque bump when it went from 3.0 to 3.2 but retained the 240hp power output. The upgraded diff was also only on the refreshed Euro…

Porsche and MB also uses an “inferior” MacPherson strut. The Infiniti Q50 uses double wishbone up front yet is considered a bit lower in handling than BMW and certainly lower than Porsche. I’m not saying double wishbone isn’t technically better, but it’s certainly possible to make a very well handling car with…

Well chassis, engine, and transmission are three pretty big parts. Sharing the platform itself just makes a lot of sense. If they had developed them separately, they would have made pretty much the same thing anyway. Why waste all that R&D? BMW probably couldn’t adapt CLAR for the Z4 and neither of them wanted to…

In your opinion, how was it not as good? My family had an E class growing up and I distinctly remember the CLK being a very similar experience. Do you have specific examples of why “the CLK was never as good as the E”?