I, for one, would much rather an 80,000 mile Lexus GS-F than an 80,000 mile M5. Even if the lexus is a worse car in almost every way, it will have cheaper parts, be more reliable (probably), and the service dept of the local lexus dealer has a much nicer waiting room.

Oil WILL go up, probably to 120+ a barrel, in the next year or so. it is artificially low right now, and is below the cost of production for non-conventional wells. I want it to go up, mainly because my fuel budget is dictated by my oil company dividends and I have a lot of exposure to shale oil in the USA.

So, people built a building next to a know loud event venue and complained about it? that's silly, those hotels should have thought before building, because heaven forbid there are loud car noises at an automakers parking lot. it's like complaining about planes taking off from the headquarters of boeing.

The GLA kills the CLA, it fixes every qualm with the cla except for the interior materials. it even looks better (subjectively)

I drove a W220 S600 (turbo) across the country, all highway and averaged roughly 18 mpg. but it was loaded, I was helping a friend move and there was probably 1700 pounds of passenger and luggage on board, so ymmv.

it's not the engine that's unreliable in those cars, it's the advanced suspension and electronics and actuators and sensors. that said, I'd rock the living daylights out of a w140 s600 for a year or two.

instead of having petitions, why don't we crowdfund a couple of lobbyinsts in washington to go in and do their lobbying thing. petitions are more or less outside of the system, but thankfully the system is super easy to become a part of, all you need is money.

How did I know going in that it would be a Morgan? I was around 85% going in that it would be either a Morgan or a BMW i8.

The NA doesn't do that great on the road though. I borrowed one from a fiend and drove it from lexington to cincy and back a few times and never broke 27 mpg. I don't really speed either, I think the highest speed I hit was 75 mph.

if this would come out the door at 28,000ish I'd lease the shit out of it. I'm already looking at a 228, but this would be a much more compelling car for me.

that is a lot for power, I pay 7.4 cents per kw/h and that's a lot, my work pays 6 cents kw/h

it depends on what is powering it, very region specific. Where I live, it's close to 100% coal, but lots of places have it powered by hydro or nuclear,

with nothing for scale, it looks like an A3 allroad. and why are they doing that silly BMW side of the grille exposed thing?

they really aren't that large, they photograph big. IRL they are totally reasonable in size, and they even feel pretty luxurious in their action.

Such a cool car, with such a cool engine. too bad we don't get the estate here in the US, it has much better proportions than the kinda-frumpy sedan.

My initial take on this was that lower gas prices are bad for you because we're going to miss a chance to reform the gas tax, which is something we need to do. That's the conventional un-conventional wisdom. The Slate take. But there was something about this whole line of reasoning that was bothering me and I alluded…

They didn't stop 6-cylinder SL manufacture for a while, they just stopped selling them in the USA for a while.

how do exports reduce future sales of parts? won't it just change where the parts are sold?

The problem with this car is, if somebody asked me right before I saw this article "what do you think the worlds nicest bone-stock '87 cressida costs?" then the reply would probably be somewhere between 4500 and 6000 dollars.

Hopefully the new tacoma is smaller, my roommate has a '14 and it is absolutely gigantic (for a small truck). as expensive as it is, you might as well move up to a tundra, which is much more comfortable and better equipped.