Hmm, I’d bet you’re probably right. Certainly makes more sense that you’d put it into place manually ahead of time rather than have an explosive charge bury it in the other side of the door frame.

Good thinking! I should expect as much from someone with the taste for fine captive imports.

Enh, I’m gonna join the killjoys here for a couple reasons.

First up, I wouldn’t consider any of those “sporty,” except the Corvair. Even then, it’s the wrong Corvair. Second gen or die: sooo much better a car. Anyway, “fun to drive,” maybe, it depends on your tolerance for absolute terror or misery. As for not being ti…

Yup. The swimsuit style was named for the Bikini Atoll explicitly because of the public test, which occurred a few days prior to the suit’s unveiling. Like literal, actual, factual history. On Wiki and and everything.

I’m about 99.9% sure I accurately remember seeing commericals for “Genuine Liberian Currency” “9/11" commemorative coins before. You could even opt to have it hand-painted. Nobody flipped their shit.

We sold the steel from the Towers for scrap. . . to China of all places. . . and all the horrible reality that it…

I’m wondering if he got tired of getting ignored by swimsuit companies?  Maybe he figured he’d finally score a win with this one.

Oh shit.  Someone in my office building’s parking lot has something like “GOB4UGO”  Wait until the PennDOT gets wind. . .

This was the first thing I noticed, and the first thing I thought. That’d be pretty awesome if, as each sequel/spin-off comes out, it’s in the style of that next successive console generation. I’m waiting for 360/PS3-era brown!

Real in the sense that it’s a pretty solid make-up job, not merely a pile o’ altered pixels.

That telescoping tube design concerns me, especially as it anchors itself into the other side of the door frame. If your delicate meats end up in the wrong spot, well. . .

conducted at an off-road course in Ocaña in the Spanish province of Toledo

Oh no. Nope nope nope-etty nope. I know where this particular rabbit hole leads. Meet the Ur-Example, in case you haven’t. . .

This is, almost, like a pet peeve of mine. By definition, the United States is not and never will be a third world nation. There no longer is a second world, per se. (You could argue Russia’s running a Bloc-lite but its interests aren’t exclusively anti-NATO but hey, they’re coming around. . .) And Europe included…

The simple answer is yes. I’m not even close to being “a Mustang guy” but if I had the disposable money burning a hole in my pocket, this car would be one of the top three ways to blow it.

Nice. I came in from a 2004 GTO, so it’s a step down in power but a step up in refinement. I do miss the noise and that lopey-ass egine, though. But all-wheel-drive means I don’t give two shits about the weather, unlike the GTO where I was generally hunkered down until the snow melts. There was even an extra set of…

I guess my point is more along these lines: No shit the DBS is still beautiful, and it should be, as it’s a money-is-no-object toy. In those regards, it’s like many classic sports cars, e.g. the C2 Corvette, the Porsche 356 or the Jaguar E-Type. All of them achingly beautiful then, aching beautiful now. Not saying…

I doff my cap to you, sir or madam.

Be an interesting write-up. I’ve heard the M3's pretty reliable once you address the rod bearings in the room. I kinda vaguely recall complaints with the DCT but I’m a manual-only kinda guy. I’m tempted to grab an E92 M3 almost out of principle: it’s a V8-powered mutant while also…

Beauty is subjective, true. I think we’ll just say you’re opinion is probably deep in the minority, however.

As for how the E90 aged, the F30 was such a mild refresh that, at a distance, they’re virtually identical. Even closer in, sometimes it’s only the headlights or that small panel above the grills that really…

An E90 M3 and an E60 M5? You’re braver than me or own an XV10 Camry just to spread good juju around the garage. I side-eye my car on every long start. . .

Get a set of the carbon fiber lip inserts and yeah, the causal observer’d totally think an M Sport is brand new until they saw the iDrive screen. . . and that’s mainly because the 2010+ design trope for any infotainment system is “jammed a tablet in the dash” appearance.

I got lucky and found a 2011 335i xDrive…

I share your bias, just for it’s progenitor. The LCI E90, especially the M Sport, could be placed in a row of new 2019/2020MY cars and no one’d suspect a thing.