She should have just included a picture of herself, and not the car...

People didn’t stop buying those because they were unreliable; they stopped because they quit making good cars. BMW, Mercedes, and Audi have never had a good reliability reputation in the US, but they continue to sell more every year, because people see them as making good cars.

Does anybody who doesn’t have an iPhone actually use iCloud for anything?

I guess I can at least be happy that the headlights have lenses.

I’d still get the Golf R. More practical hatchback, manual, and interior more than nice enough, considering the savings. Then again, I’m not a brand-conscious hipster programmer, I’m a banker, and we are all about value for money.

I had to read that a few times to grasp the meaning, in fairness to OP.

I’m not saying BMW didn’t make any engineering mistakes, just that it doesn’t care about there being a million-mile BMW out there that Jalopnik reports on, because its customers are not the type (generally speaking) to drive a new car to 100k+ miles.

All those companies have had a pretty long run, and they seem to be doing just fine. You are in a minority of people shopping in that price range, it would seem.

Ah yes, the car salesman competition sucks rant. Reason 1,232,436 why shopping at a dealer blows.

Is Ricciardo the only F1 driver in history to sport mutton chops?

The Ferrari dude has the best hair in F1.

I would love for F1 to become more popular, so I could watch the races live without having to pay Comcast $5,000,000/mo for a dozen other sports channels I’ll never watch. As it stands, the only races I can watch are Monaco, COTA, Canada, Brazil, and Mexico.

If it’s at least as durable as a shingle roof, this is an excellent idea. I’ve always thought I’d love to power a house strictly off solar, but panels are so ugly it’s hard to swallow.

No kidding. What’s your point? My point was that BMW doesn’t care if the V10 in the M5 grenades after the warranty runs out because by then its original new car customer has traded up for something newer; ergo planned obsolescence is a myth. New BMW buyers don’t buy a new car when theirs breaks, they buy one when…

Or it’s called the “Why spend more money than we have to developing a car that will run for 10 years and 200k miles, when 98% of our customers trade up every 3-5 years or less, anyway” effect.

I am confused by your post. Presumably, by Vestappel, you mean Verstappen, and Vettel and he are not teammates. Vettel races for Ferrari, Verstappen for Red Bull.

I’m pissed I clicked on this stupid, clickbait article. You’re a hack.

Yeah, that seems like a spiteful penalty.

Wow, I don’t know if that was necessary. He wasn’t overly aggressive in my opinion. In fact, watching it, I thought the error was on Ricciardo, not Vettel. Just seemed like he dove too hard as Vettel cut for the apex.

Vettel chased him down from, what, P10 and had what should have been a legit pass, and you don’t think he deserved third?