Hi Ian! Great to have you here! If you had to pick a car that you worked on to be your daily driver, from the entirety of your design career, what would it be? Let's set aside maintenance concerns with older cars, for the sake of the question.

...the main goal of the F1 was to take your wife and your child out on a long journey...

How about the Chevy LUV from NP/CP from a few days ago? A 7 year-old(at time of award) Isuzu with 80hp, and "sports-car handling?" Why not?

That hood support looked like it was coming up to the phone, like an old-timey wired phone ... which also made it seem weird that there'd be a phone in the engine compartment. Actually, that'd be an interesting option, back before onstar or cell phones! An emergency phone for when your car breaks down and you don't…

Celebrating New Year's eve with a big ol' crack pipe, eh?

While that beady rain effect looks pretty, it's not very realistic, as others pointed out. Strangely, NFS Rivals has pretty impressive dynamic rain texturing:

Ouch. On top of that Youtube's 1080p quality is super lossy, so you need it at at least 1440p to get "full hd" quality.

It looks like an unlicensed videogame Corvette lookalike. Good from a distance, but up close and you start to notice all the blank surfaces and unresolved lines. Pretty good-looking though, as far as complete-makeover bodykits go.

I'm sure there are, I'm just pointing out a notable example. Besides, BMW isn't hyped for reliability, really.

Haha, the E36 M3 is the "V6 Mustang argument" of used cars.

There was a E28 supposedly with 512K on the clock that won a Classic award at Bimmerfest East this year.

I wonder, is there a point where mileage stops mattering? I feel like past a certain point if a car is still in presentable condition, you just know that everything that should have been replaced, was replaced. And by that point you have a relatively fresh car. I'm torn on this one.

Nice sarcasm! It's OK though because at the end of the day it's still one good looking car!

You have my gratitude. And Liam Neeson's.

Also not "happy fun internet jalopnik time". Don't worry, I have an off day.

This one goes right along with looking further ahead — if you leave more space between you and the car in front, it gives you have more time to react to sudden changes. What's more, leaving a good gap in front of you lets you smooth out the stop-and-go of bumper-to-bumper traffic.

That's what it's supposed to feel like, no?

I pretty much agree, except I'd switch the e24 and e28, and put the 1M coupe a little higher up.

Put some random white numbers on the quarter panel too, for even more secret government status!

Haha, The original Quattro is the business, but that's definitely not what's pictured. I was talking about Quattro as the AWD system, the brand, the idea, the fetish, vs. WRX as same.