It’s the theme of the car. The cerium grey caps match the grille surrounds, frankly I dig them a lot in every color except BGM and AWM. But OP wants the black-out look and that’s okay, too.

Volvo.

They aren’t dead and are, in fact, doing pretty well…but they’ve lost the spunky attitude ever since Polestar was spun off. Like, throughout the 2000s and 2010s they were rising to challenge the Germans in their own way. The SPA S60 and V60 were supposed to be - and were even originally marketed as - the sportiest and most dynamic driving cars ever from the company…and then Samuelsson happened. Right as that car was launched, they went all-in on safety, playing down the sporty aspects across the brand and even changing the marketing for 2020+. Then the pandemic happened and extremely aggressive cost-cutting was implemented: no more fun speaker-cone color, no dynamic ride, no ventilated seats, no shift paddles, no R-Design badges, no drive mode selector, and the OS change from Sensus to Android Automotive rolled back some features because they couldn’t be fucked to finish the software feature-set before implementing it in production.

And soon all they will sell are SUVs and crossovers.

Sad how far the brand has fallen since the firecracker P3 V60 Polestar.

Rage

Everybody expected, and fairly, that this was going to be a bit like Borderlands, but it turned out to be nothing of the sort. Once I got over that, it turned into a solid conventional FPS punctuated by a weird driving minigame. The gunplay was great, the weapons were satisfying, the level design was good, and the visuals had some breathtaking moments. I also really enjoyed how the entire game is essentially an allusion and love letter to Half-life 2.

I don’t think the 6 and 8 have ever existed simultaneously and both have always been, primarily, large grand touring 2-door coupes. The E31 was a successor to the E24 in every way, the styling even traces to it. After that car, they left that space in the lineup empty and then resurrected the 6 before ultimately punting it up the nomenclature to be an 8.

Grown-up is not always desirable. Sometimes you want the wild child car.

The 8 series is just this generation’s 6-series; it occupied the same size and market position, they just moved the number up.

Thunder Night Metallic looks stupendous and it receives so many looks and compliments around town!

Preach.

2022 M240i absolutely dunks on my 1990 ZR-1 in every performance metric and nearly every comfort department, but no way would I take the BMW if what I want is to engage with and enjoy the operation of the machine.

The Ram 2500 from Twister.