My life is a joke. I finally am in a position where I can buy a new manual M3. I worried when there were concerns that BMW would make it auto only and my fears were allayed when spy shots of a 6MT version were released. Now I see that the spy shots of the buck tooth grille are real.

That’s great. I see you judge a car by the people that buy it. Not by its merits. Sounds like something a badge whore would do, not an enthusiast.

Bottom line is, none of that changes how messed up this situation is. The police probably didn’t know his prior record and even if they did it sounds like he’s a troubled drug addict who has cleaned up and hasn’t been arrested in over a decade. There is no way to justify or make anything that happened seem less worse.…

The fact that you think this makes it OK that the police kneeled on his neck for over 8 minutes is shocking and reveals a lot about your character. Assassinating a man’s character just so you can justify him being brutalized by police is for what purpose?

Oh I agree. I personally am a bit conflicted. Part of me thinks that we shouldn’t have any autonomous features until this shit is locked down and we have full autonomous driving. On the other hand, I wonder if this does help most bad drivers with road rage and preventing fender benders in stop and go traffic. If so,…

I obviously know why you mentioned your income which is why i mentioned the poverty rate. The U.S. poverty rate is about 12%. Tulare county is 22%. So nearly double the national and state average. That’s a problem sir. And you have no idea how much money anyone makes here. Lots of silicon valley software engineers…

Tesla’s lack of effective automatic emergency braking is also a failure. The lack of any airbag deployment in the car is also a shocking failure. There are lots of technical and human failures here.

You’re lying or parroting “alternative facts” from right-wing racist websites. The owner of the store who wasn’t even there is on Floyd’s side and has never made a statement that Floyd was a known counterfeiter. In fact, Floyd was able to buy cigarettes and stayed outside the store smoking after buying them. Would…

Do you not believe in due process? The shop owner that called the police did not know Floyd or believe that Floyd definitely knew the $20 bill was fake. He just reported a counterfeit bill. That’s the thing with counterfeit money, often the people using it are completely innocent as they’ve been handed the money by…

Oh you make more money than them. That has nothing to do with anything. Virtually every region has the haves and have nots. Why even mention that. If you want to counter their statement about poverty, then show us numbers of the percentage of people in your county living in poverty and median income, mean income,…

There’s a huge Napoleon complex with Corvette guys and domestic guys in general. Or maybe it’s a persecution complex.

Setting budgets isn’t quite an exact science anyway. If I have $5000 of disposable income per month and $100k in savings, then what kind of car can I afford? Some might say a $20k car, others might say a $50k car. Some might even say more. So if I set my budget at $40k without factoring in TTL, then it’s not a big…

Calling in national guard for rioting is pretty routine. I’m for the protests, but there are innocent people living there. Some order has to be restored. I’m not even saying rioting is necessarily a bad thing here. I would never condone it, but obviously nothing else is working for black people. They are marginalized…

Found the Acura owner.

For all of Biden’s imperfections, Trump is far far worse. Like orders of magnitude worse. At this point I’d prefer Trump abdicate his throne and just let Pence finish out his term. I’d be very happy if that happened. 

The TLX size puts it as a smaller midsized “luxury” car though it lags behind pretty much all the luxury carmaker interior quality (even Infiniti and Cadillac) so it is more of a premium car like a Buick or what Volvo used to be (now Volvo has some of the better interiors).

lol, yup still the same old 720p webcam. 

He got a pro E Sports driver to be the ringer. There are very different strategies for sim vs real driving.

I think everyone should at least have a drill and an impact driver in their home. Impact drivers are a godsend for all kinds of work and they can function as a low torque impact wrench (with a cheap adapter) for working on cars as well. It’s great to zip off underbody panels and body screws. Some unibody car lugs can…

I think everyone should at least have a drill and an impact driver in their home. Impact drivers are a godsend for…

You’d be surprised. Lines can be decorative, but they can also be air spoilers that improve aerodynamics or guide air around the tires (a source of drag). With the advanced CAD and wind tunnel testing carmakers do, especially on high volume cars where it’s worth it, it’s hard to say as lay people what function these…