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[1] If you can pronounce this correctly, there’s a seat with your name on it in the Bundesrat.
[2] To our Jalopnik readers, the Gentleman Motorist knows that you would have preferred the manual transmission even though it is slower. But the Gentleman Motorist, like most enterprising capitalists, has outsourced the labor of shifting gears in exchange for better performance returns.
[3] For Porsche fanatics (Jerry Seinfeld), this is just a nicely-optioned Porsche Boxster S. The Gentleman Motorist knows about the GTS, the Spyder, the Black Edition, and other magnificent iterations of the 981. But for most gentleman motorists, the S is just enough mustard for pretzels and pilsners.
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