This is great for people whose personal insecurities prevent them from buying a normal 7-Series.

A space plane could save a good bit of money in the long run, considering how much it currently costs to get something into orbit. I imagine the margin between that and a mach 6 jet isn’t very wide from a materials standpoint (though I’m no expert), but then you run into the problem of having to lug non-air breathing…

The fact that this occurred in Washington makes me very optimistic that I can witness a similar event with a short drive to Pennsyltucky.

I recall my parents’ Volvo XC90 had one of these back in the day. Annoyed the shit out of me. Luckily there was an oddball transversely mounted Yamaha V8 up front to make up for it.

While I would personally prefer to have one very large dog, this is the best reason I’ve come across to have six smaller ones.

That Trump managed to ‘create’ a limo that was trashy even in the context of the late ‘80's speaks for itself. Anyway, this is a car article, not the news.

When will automatic transmissions stop striving to have as many gears as a bicycle or semi? We have to be nearing a point of diminishing returns from a cost, performance, and complexity standpoint, right? I get the marketing aspect, though.

That’s a great analogy. I even moved to DC looking forward to the use of the Metro, having previously lived somewhere with far inferior public transportation (as in far less existed). As a casual rider, I managed to maintain the benefit of the doubt for the Metro that I had moved to DC with. But as a daily…

This is why I get so frustrated when people who have never lived in D.C. talk about ‘how great the Metro is’ just because they had the good luck to ride it while visiting once without it breaking down (especially people from NYC, Boston, and Philadelphia, which have better, if less attractive, rail transit systems).

I have zero children, and hopefully will for the foreseeable future, yet I was still unreasonably excited when, upon hearing a Toyota Previa pull away from an intersection the other day, I realized it was a manual.

I thought the same thing. The difference is I can read this without going into an uncontrollable rage.

It bothers me that modern BMW’s look like someone partially melted a two ton block of plastic when the E46, E39, E36, and most BMW’s concurrent and prior have such taut designs.

I may not be able to have a Chiron, but I live in a place with access to a great variety of world-class, non-poisonous sandwiches for between 6 and 12 bucks, and that’s all that matters.

This car is heinous and I want it very badly.

This makes me think there needs to be a car-based investment firm. If such a thing existed, then browsing prices of low-mileage M Coupes or the like on any given weekday could be considered working instead of ‘working,’ and my life would be complete.

I suppose I’ll just have to cross-shop them then, with all that money and Porsche-cred I don’t have.

Drive-by-wire steering still seems like an answer to a question that nobody asked, even if it works better in this application than in previous attempts. Maybe I’m just being an automotive Luddite, but I can’t imagine this is substantially cheaper, lighter, more reliable, less complex, or less ‘fatiguing’ than a…

That gearbox looks special enough on its own. This will make it that much harder for people who were cross-shopping the Cayman GT4 with the 911 GT3, the poor souls.

I agree that charging times will certainly matter for trips long enough to require a charge mid-trip, but this is yet another aspect of battery evolution that is rapidly improving. See the latest generation of phone batteries: they can go from less than a 20% charge to 85% in a matter of minutes. Tesla is already on…