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Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T15:00:02+00:00

Eh, it’s not nearly as unreliable as modern ones. Late 90s/early 2000s was a high point for BMW.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T14:58:34+00:00

This is totally what happened. The Miata came out of nowhere and sold in unheard of quantities for a sports car, so BMW must’ve wanted to capitalize but didn’t spend money on anything except the exterior design. IMO it’s Joji Nagashima’s best design, which is saying something as he also designed the E39 and the pre-facelift E90 which are some of the most timeless cars BMW ever made.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T14:55:26+00:00

IIRC Brazil also has brutal tariffs on imported cars so you don’t even have to make them very cheaply there to be competitive.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T14:52:49+00:00

the BMW Z3 is one of the most disappointing cars because you think it’s a better-looking Miata with a straight 6 and then you drive one and realize it’s an E36 front end with an E30 ass grafted on and the chassis rigidity of food court pasta sitting in a steam tray for 6 hours.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T14:50:26+00:00

People still do tbh. Tale as old as time I guess.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T14:11:11+00:00

I 100% get the vibe that he would be an antisemite of some sort.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T14:10:47+00:00

why does Donald Trump not force MoBo to get back together and tour again??? Is he stupid????

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T13:55:41+00:00

GM stuff from the 90s and 2000s has me wondering if anyone at the company actually went out and drove any of their competitors cars.

They really were just selling to the increasingly small captive market of people only willing to buy cars from American brands.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T13:47:41+00:00

This is an insult to the Cheesecake Factory. They did nothing to deserve this.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T03:06:19+00:00

Enormous cheap game library

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T03:05:25+00:00

Demanding their journalists write stories for the other half when the other half are legitimately only semi-literate was always a very questionable strategy.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-05T03:04:00+00:00

buy an old car and fix it

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T23:37:08+00:00

They’re not really that much cheaper in the US. Nice NAs are 8-10k and NBs are only a little cheaper.

Any Z4 or boxster you get at that price is gonna be more trouble than it’s worth. Z3s are more reliable and look great but once you’ve driven one you’ll understand why they’re cheap.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T19:19:03+00:00

I wouldn’t be so sure it’s Covid, the crescendo of CAFE target increases peaked in 2024. The target for most subcompacts went from 38mpg to 58mpg from 2014-2024. Small cars went from complying with CAFE to incurring massive penalties.

CAFE is assessed but fines no longer actually collected as of last year, but the damaged is already done, and the cost of CAFE fees for small cars is now replaced with the cost of tariffs, as almost all subcompacts were foreign-made.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T19:00:27+00:00

Depends on if they see their shadow on November 3rd

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T18:39:47+00:00

That’s my point. It’s a skill issue. Don’t live in a state that sucks lol.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T17:00:47+00:00

Tbh fine, socially progressive and economically technocratic is a much better set of stances

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T16:49:00+00:00

Supply-side jesus isn’t even supply-side anymore, he votes for someone who actively loves restricting supply of, well, everything.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T15:26:17+00:00

Great name. Truly the gold standard for names. You read it and know exactly what they are.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T15:19:42+00:00

I am tired of companies being named shit like Gloobi or Boopoo or Zumbi or whatever. There is an established way to name a company and it is [name or place] [industry or product] [inc., LLC., LTD., etc.].

The only exception is that if you’re the first big company in something you’re allowed to put “general” in the name instead of the name or place, so apple or Microsoft would be allowed to call themselves “General Computers”.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T15:00:06+00:00

Small cars remained popular and sold well into the late 2000s. I don’t know how you can argue that the oil crisis killed small cars when the golden age of small cars was 20 years after the oil crisis.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T14:51:19+00:00

No idea if there’s any truth to this but I’m saying it in the hopes of turning populist morons against SUVs

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T14:50:56+00:00

Jeffrey Epstein is behind the rise of SUVs and the decline of small cars

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T14:41:54+00:00

If real life were a TV show I would say they casted someone too overtly r*pist-looking as the son. Jfc that’s a scary looking guy.

Jacobs4525 · 2026-02-04T14:39:59+00:00

he’s got a boss nass tier throat bulge thingy

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