Paying dealer mark ups on a new car that’s often way over MSRP. I don’t understand it. Every car eventually gets old along it’s production cycle and only maybe a very small percentage of hyper luxury and hyper exotics are cars you’d actually pay over sticker for in that it may be worth more in the foreseeable future…

I’ve owned four of them; every year made except 1985. An ‘84 base, an ‘87 base, an ‘88 Formula, and an ‘86 fastback GT, in that order. They’re constant money pits. Everything is cheap enough to keep them maintained, but the problem is (1) everyone that actually owned a Fiero treated them as cheap throwaway cars and…

The only console I’ve ever bought close to it’s launch date was the PSP a week out from it’s release, just because it honestly blew my mind the world was getting a “portable Playstation”. Everything else I own has waited quite a long time. And I’ve got stuff going back to a four switch 2600.

If this would have been my first car I would have been further over the moon than Neil Armstrong. Seriously. My first car was a then ten year old Nova. No, not the RWD muscle Nova; the E80 Corolla -based Nova, with the FWD SOHC engine that could barely get out of it’s own way, leaked a shit ton of oil, and eventually…

I don’t mind waiting. I didn’t buy a PS3 until two years after it came out and the PS4 it was three (!) years after release. The way I’ve always looked at it is I figure by that time plenty has been worked out and there’s a wide selection of titles that have bargain-binned leaving plenty to play for cheap. I know not…

That’s probably because the torque it was putting out is nowhere near the horsepower figure, which without looking at it I believe torque on even the later V6 models was well under 300, and like HP was likely inflated itself. When you have near or more torque that horsepower you’re going to have a much more driveable…

You must have never been there. It’s as red as any other portion of the state. It especially got super conservative now that homeowners are seeing utterly massive booms in their housing value, recently shot down efforts to build much needed homeless shelters as Austin has a massive homeless population, instead let…

I’ve owned a C5 for nearing a decade now. As far as all-around performance car bargains go I can’t think of a much better car out there currently on the market for chassis potential and power delivered compared to what you pay for it. It’s no longer a fast car but it’s still a competent performer that’s incredibly…

Regular buses and coaches are designed for travel efficiency, primarily optimizing fuel and tire use. Those type of units are required to travel at constant typically highway speeds for extended periods of time, so as a builder you would want to optimize the chassis overall efficiency.

I can speak specifically on the Fiero, and why parts can be piece-meal when it comes to third party. It’s mostly licensing fees from General Motors, which are utterly astronomical and possibly comical.

I’ve near given up on finding a good beater project. Eventually FB marketplace and Craigslist is going to be filled with a set of wheels and tires out in the field priced at $2,000 and the description “ran when parked”

I’m considering selling my home as I probably need to downsize from ~3,000 sq ft, but also because I can actually make money off of it in the current economy and where it is zoned. If this were any other normal situation I’d probably make a tad extra and still be above water on the mortgage but I stand to easily come…

People born in 2000 have either turned or will be turning old enough to drink soon.

When I was in my final year of junior high the bus driver announced one day that he was quitting and was going to make us intentionally late, so he took us on an impromptu field trip around the city, drove through an empty lot where he caught a little air and smashed up the front bumper, and took near every continuous…

I think part of the issue is that Ferrari and Porsche that you speak of effectively have an entire racing series for each marque that is FIA GT3 or near that (the various Challenge Series and the Porsche Cup, for examples), so in addition to the customer base that already exists for their GT3 efforts worldwide in FIA…

I had already been driving for a little while prior to getting my license. ~14 years old my parents would just throw me in the driver’s seat on back roads and say “don’t fuck up the car.” So I drove and tried not to mess up the car. At that time there were still a lot of dirt roads where I lived and there were plenty…

The first year of the GT, 1985, the car carried over the body used on the Indy Fiero pace car. For 1986, the GT model was given the ‘fastback’ body style with the long windows. The ‘notchback’ with the aero body would be reserved for 1986 SE models, and continued until 1987 when it was dropped. It’s often a little…

To be fair, most any car with a wide body and a box type rear spoiler will look pretty similar as that’s all an F40 is. Look at an F40 really hard, and you’ll realize that if you take the rear spoiler off and squish the width ultimately it’s not much different from a 308 other than having a wide body and a box rear…

The only thing about salvage title vehicles - and this ultimately varies state to state - is you really need to call your insurance carrier first. There are instances of carriers that they either place salvage vehicles on specialized policies or, in extreme cases, they can refuse coverage. A deal on a vehicle is not…

My opinion and TL;DR - What has baffled me about GameStop is how not that they cannot see the forest for the trees because they are not looking hard enough but rather they’re staring at the shiny skyscraper next to the forest.