Cars come with the baggage of having stereotypes. American cars are built like crap, Italian cars break down, Japanese cars run forever, and Chinese cars are copies. Well, Germany is having a hard time beating the allegations of having heavy, complicated cars.
Thomas wrote about how the new Audi RS5 weighs 1,112 pounds more than the old one. Hotdoughnutsnow makes a joke that’s also sort of a reference to yesterday’s COTD:
If it gets any fatter, they will have to add a fifth ring.
Mrbrown89:
When is the GLP-1 industry reach out to the automakers?
Mercedes-Benz has to replace batteries in its EQB, and let’s just take a moment to appreciate our graphics artist and editor extraordinaire, Peter Vieira! Hotdoughnutsnow:
I laughed out loud at the main title graphic. Good job, designer!
Matt wrote an Exhaust Leaks about the press trip he went on that was after the one where Jason got yelled at. You do have to be a Member to read that one, but everyone can read these comments. Huja Shaw:
Just a matter of time before the entire staff of The Autopian dance/fights with another car enthusiast publication like in West Side Story.
Elhigh:
This kind of drama can only be settled by a rap album.
Johnathon Gustin:
I was thinking a quarter mile at a time, but either way, this whole situation is Ludacris.
Taargus Taargus:
I don’t know, I was thinking all of this is pretty Juvenile.
Dolsh:
So now I just think the throwdown from The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a real thing. All we need now is a fake movie poster celebrating a triumphant Torch, David, Matt and Alanis standing over their vanquished foes.
StillNotATony:
Mercedes coming in with a trident!!!
755_SoCalRally:
Where did you get that hand grenade from?
Harvey Firebirdman:
David Tracy “I don’t know.”
Jason wrote a Cold Start about car faces and hardware store springs. Canopysaurus:
You really should have held off on this post for a month since it’s not quite spring yet.
Live2ski:
The tension is killing me.
Twobox Designgineer:
Some of these responses are a stretch.
Have a great evening, everyone!
And automatics only, which is a joke.
Thanks for the mention.
A friend and I tried writing comedy back in high school. He was successful at it and got the applause; so it’s nice to get an occasional applau.
The new Audi looks like a grotesque caricature of an Audi. Over seasoned
But that Green!
David’s grenade came shipped with the WW2 Jeep parts, duh!
Ah, the Holey Handgrenade of Salvagelot. Hopefully Brother Jason has exposited to David the verses from the Book of Haynes that clarify the whole “count to 3 vs 5” thing.
5 is right out!
Complicate and add weight, ze German way! Also that journalist fight thread is a gem, I’m sad I missed it live!
Complicate for the sake of avoidable complications, making the inevitable repairs that much more time consuming and expensive. And they say Italian cars are unreliable? Give me a break.
My Mercedes has been dead reliable through nearly 7 years now. (Having said that, it’ll probably not start next time.) On the other hand, I still can’t figure out how to turn the radio off when I’m using Android Auto for navigation, so yeah, complicated just to be complicated.
Rose colored glasses covering up for what you paid for the car?
Nope, just basic maintenance and a new battery so far, knock on wood. New battery was last month, so that seems reasonable compared with prior experiences.
As far as value for money, sure, something Japanese would probably have been better, but it’s just a C300, so not ridiculously expensive. I had non-rational reasons for wanting a Mercedes, and I’ve got it out of my system now so it’s very unlikely that I would choose a Mercedes again.
My wife’s 2014 C300 was dead reliable for 8 years until her foot slipped off the brake and onto the accelerator as she was trying to park and she launched herself into a 15′ deep ditch. The 2019 she has now hasn’t been anywhere near as problem free.
Ouch, sorry to hear that. Mine’s a ’19 too, so maybe I’ve been lucky.
Four of them. Brakes that is.