I can blow by them as many times as it wants. The stick drivers will be having too much fun to actually notice. Who knew we had so many wannabe Lemans drivers out there? Because having fun is overrated and outdated.

Being over Six foot myself, I can tell you it’s not your vertical dimension that is the problem...

One of my friends is 6'5 and 225 and he fits fine in his 3 series and his Tesla model s. I dont believe you in other words.

We’re not looking at you but the majority. When you’re in traffic and look around, every single SUV has a driver around 5 something and one driver, in a warm weather climate and nothing in the back seat.

Isn’t that oversimplifying a bit? Those cars listed above would probably all get better mileage if they didn’t need all those pesky safety features people are always going on and on about.

If 15 MPG city isn’t acceptable, then that makes quite a few exhilarating cars unacceptable... In no particular order:

I agree absolutely. Speeding for engineers in company cars, especially test mules is accepted but when there is alcohol in the mix then their jobs are toast. Good riddance. You do not drink on company time and you certainly don’t drive corporate vehicles after you have been drinking.

Define stupid and dangerous. These fools were drinking, that is balls out stupid. Speed? Depends on where. I just gave one fool the business for thinking 90 on a two lane is always dangerous; it depends on the road and conditions, as always. “Oh, you could hit an animal”....anything less than a moose or an elk I am…

I was sort of kinda ok with a pair of GM gearheads opening up on an empty road in the middle of the night to 75 or so. At least it shows GM has gearheads.

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Look, I agree street racing is for f*ckheads. It pisses me off to no end when I am tooling along at a decent 70 mph on the interstate and some small-dick blows by the left lane (or slaloming through lanes) at 110 in his whited-out 911 Turbo/GT-R/riced out front-wheel drive whatever-mobile with a massive spoiler and…

Honestly, if you want that 535i, have at least 5k saved up for repairs if the previous owners hasn’t done the following:

Their board is also 40% female, which isn’t terrible. Again, not saying that this isn’t misogyny, just that it’s a bit irresponsible to all-out assume. Especially given the last block quote above that specifically says that

The only part of your comment I’ll disagree with is limiting it to Americans.  There are stupid people who don’t care how gaudy something is as long as it makes them look richer than they are all around the world, not just in the US.

Yeah, but you’re german. You’re supposed to be better than that. What happened to the no-bullshit attitude you all are known for? Giant grills are vain, tacky bullshit. Make up some excuse like the car is meant to be understated and classy for the professional, not gaudy for the instagram likes. Give some engineeering…

The reality is that car manufacturers are no longer prioritizing design for tastes in North America or Europe, but the ones in China. And the market there prefers this more ostentatious LOOK AT ME styling. If you want tasteful, teutonic design in your next BMW...better buy vintage.

At least you can pull into traffic in the Supra. I desperately want the twins to be good but they absolutely are not made for even getting to that fun windy road if it involves coming up to speed after pulling out of a busy intersection.

The Asian companies are making and selling these vehicles for a profit. If Ford and GM can’t do the same, they need to just get out of the business. Long term, they can’t bank on the SUV and truck gravy train. Eventually that will hit a dead end too.

The underlying problems with Ford and GM are still present. 2008 and…

Doesn’t even take freezing tempuratures. Even at 50F, the Pilot Super Sports that my M235i came with had VERY noticeably less grip. I shudder to even contemplate what that thing would have been like in actual snow on those tires. Needless to say, I had a nice set of winters for it, and it was actually great in the…

Peter, forgive me if this is a double post, but I think Kinja ate the first one.