Be sure is better! Besides some rigidity increase, anything else seems to be worse and much more expensive nowadays. I was in an old taxi, Mercedes, a model from the early 90's. Shocked about comfort. GLE and X5 can dream about it
Full on EVs are NOT the future! Toyota has long refused to go down that path and which why BMW unlike Mercedes Audi etc are not making stand alone EVs and it seems their strategy is paying off, funny when they were ridiculed for it by naysayers.
Govts did not force people to adopt ICE when horses where an environmental nightmare, but the horse went once ICE was viable. Govts forcing the issue prematurely is the root here, plus bowing to German industry as per EU norms (see CFLs)
Taxing by weight is great. Taxing also by length and width is even better. Might make some incentive to stop cars being so preposterously wide yet poor interior space.
Yes. BMW E92 is the last true M3. The roar this S65 engine produces and the look of the car makes it real head turner. We are happily married for 5 years now and I have no plans to sell the car.
Modern car reviewers want everything to handle like a sports car and rate a car by how many gadgets and features it has over the competition. Nobody is measuring the thickness of the carpet, inspecting the leather and wood for defects and inspecting inside door panels and underneath the car for serviceability. We didn't understand the true quality of the w124 until they had many many miles on them.
The big issue is the premium manufacturers who are making electric cars with ridiculous performance briefs. 0-60mph in less than 3 seconds.....seriously? How can this be anything other than dick measuring all over again? Electric and hybrid vehicles should be all about efficiency...not perfomance. The ultra high performance electric cars should be taxed out of existance.
I'm a sucker for those fat@$$ tires! Why no mesh grilles on the b pillar scoops, it would seem better looking and functional for some debris filtering.
🎯 Re. Diesel ... The ↘️ Much ❤ Cleaner **Bio Fuel / Veg. Oils ↔️ & 🖤 NOT that ☣️ EVIL ❌️FOSSIL 👹💀FUEL WAS THE *ONLY The #1 preferred ❤FUEL ❤ CHOICE👍 of the 🙉 "MURDERED"👎 Inventor Carl Rudolph DIESEL himself ... ❤ SADLY " PAID The PRICE‼️" 4 his ADAMENTLY ↔️ Insisting ... that DEFINITELY 🆘️ NO 💀👎Poisonous 🖤 ❌️POLUTING ❌️DEADly ❌️FOSSIL💀❌️Diesel ⛽️ Fuel❌️ 🙊 would be PERMITTED IN ➡️ his ♥️ FABULOUS ✅️✅️✅️ DIESEL ENGINES ~ EVER ‼️🙏 🎭 ... & So he👎 ❌️Suspiciously❌️⌛️ " DISAPEARED " 🙉 ... & the ☣️ FOSSIL 💀🙈OIL CARTELS ... R ➡️ still " KILLING OFF‼️" ALL & ANY OPPORSITION .... (((& **WHY... is *NOT THE *Question 🆘️🆘️🆘️ 🙏...
The Pantera is an absolute beast! in 2013 I askes a ferrari /lamborgini mechanic about what car scared the crap out of him... he said all super cars are nothing... except the Pantera was Basically power Rage on wheels / no traction control -just the seat of your pants insane power.
It took me a long time to warm up to this one. The styling was so different than any other Jaguar before or since. But looking back on it, it does have a certain contrarian charm to it. And it’s probably the cheapest way in the world to get yourself into a V12 performance car.
"The RePaSsING of The Western Torch.!*?/\." The Newer Screams "while" the Former Growls. The Newer is nicely rounded for ease & comfort "while The Older Retains the Jagged edge of the Cutting Seventies CruSh. The One Remains an Adventure at any & eVery Mile "while" The Other is built for Reliability & iS made to BRing you BAcK to HoMeD0oRs.
WE desperately need CO2, ALL scientists that are NOT on the Climatoids' payroll say it; ---Look at TREE, a BIG TREE; Where did it get the MATERIAL,the Cellulose, for its Body, its Trunk, from? Not from the ground, trees do not dig big holes under them, So, from where? It's from the air, from the CO2 in the air; they keep the Carbon, the C, and they give us back the O2; Not a bad deal for both, all plants do that, grasses, plankton, etc; and we all eat vegetables,before the cow eats them, or after; I will gladly continue to use my old cars, cheap,well paid for, and earth friendly, no deep mines needed; And there is more; The best lithium battery today has only 300Watt-hour per kg, while diesel or gasoline have 30 times more, or 10000 Watt-hour per Kg; This makes any EV a dinosaur, ugly,heavy, and unpleasant to drive, avoiding A/C and Heat or you risk being on foot, and all that while being VERY expensive and COMPLICATED; not for me, thank you, not yet,maybe never.
Oil is subsidized $US 9.000.000.000.000. That's more than $US 1.000 for every human on earth. Or, $US 28.125 for every fossil car. 1/4 of all oil are used for fuel for cars. 80M cars are produced every year. A corrupt cartel with mostly dictatorships are controlling the price of oil. 6-8% of all energy in the world are used to refine oil. Numbers from Norway shows that you need 5% more electrictrisity to charge all vehicles if they where electric. Fossil cars are smogging up our neighborhoods. This kills millions of people every year. Efuel still smog up your neighborhood. So, people love in a toxic smog bobble that kills your family. And, you have to pay, and be a slave , to dictatorships.
Light weight electric good for inner cities. Coming to town and drive on the outer circle then Hybrids will do. All other ICE cars will be banned from the city. On long trips or above or below a surten km/hour miles/hour the car will switch to ICE or electric. An EV train can also help boost performance to the ICE engine. Which means that it saves fuel because it costs more fuel to get to the mile for the ice Engine then to a electric motor.
I love my diesels! But I'm looking at moving to biodiesel or veg oil/used veg oil for my 2008 Astra, probably this year. I've had one or two other cars on Bio before with very few issues. As for buying new, forget it. Everything's too expensive! And as for EVs, I say the issue is the lithium batteries. No one needs 0 to 60 in 2 seconds, no one!
The 850 was good for the money, but the 124 Sport Coupe & Spider had a hemisphere DOHC designed by a former Ferrari engineer. When Car & Driver tested the mid engine X/19 they said that you could pry off the Fiat badges and replace them with Ferrari badges and get away with it!
Toyota, maza & subaru come together..?....they are already together...they are the one company..talk about trying to build credibility in a weak article
That car came atock with a 351CID Cleveland and talk about G force...it would PIN you to the seats like an Apollo rocket, the Chevy Corvette couldn't TOUCH that and it was AFFORDABLE TOO!
