This is a B6 S4 though...

The correction pronunciation (in German) is “Owdee”.

I had one of these back in 2014 in the same exterior color (white leather interior). The interior was so nice, and the V-8 was torquey and fun. I paid $10k for my ex-CPO car when it was 10 years old with 75k miles. The only thing wrong with it was a slightly sagging rear headliner - otherwise it was mint.

Yes, it’s quite ridiculous. What we really need are global crash/safety and emissions standards and no 5/15/25 year rule at all.

MBUSA had such a stranglehold on the US market that they charged more for the car in USD ($33k) than Mercedes did in Germany in DM (26k-30k). And the exchange rate was 1 USD = ~2.5DM. So MBUSA extracted a 3x premium for a 10-11 year old model and sold every single unit they were allocated.

The 190E was not a W123 or W124. It was a W201 - a precursor to the C class.

Yes, that was my point.

Well, you didn’t read the next sentence, which was “the W123 competed with the E12/E28 from BMW and that was it”. Even those cars were priced significantly lower than the W123 in the United States. A base 230E was $33k for the sedan. The top of the line BMW E28 535i was only $30k.

The problem is that Mercedes has virtually no competition in the 1980s. People wistfully cite the W123, but when the car came out, it was competing against the E12 and E28 from BMW and that was it.

The “old way” is not as profitable. Companies design cars with a finite component life and technology that will become outdated = more car sales and lower production/development costs. The competitive landscape is much different as well. When the W123 was in production, the only real competitor was the E28. Audi was…

The “old way” is not as profitable. Companies design cars with a finite component life and technology that will become outdated = more car sales and lower production/development costs.

The R is definitely a league above any GT/Mach1. But yes, putting some Cup 2s on a Mach1/Bullitt/GT PP2 would have it pretty close to a standard GT350.

I actually like the fact that it is now compatible with a 5/6 point harness (assuming the base of the seat has crotch strap holes).

All of them have online merch stores.

It’s bonkers. Bosch and CNH both have poured millions into Nikola (over $300MM between the 2 of them).

Honestly, most seem to create a single prototype and then receive hundreds of millions (and sometimes even billions) in outside investments, either via PE/VC or from direct industry investment.

I just don’t find that super impressive (the electric version of an extant truck).

I thought it was more exciting. There was action for the entire 60 mins instead of 2 minutes of action 3 times in an hour.

All the more reason to do it if it doesn’t yet resonate. There is terrible racism in Europe.

And it was awesome! Every driver was pushing to the max and if you made a mistake, you were stuck back with the Minardis. There were so few laps done (20-22 depending on the numbers of teams/drivers) that the track didn’t substantially evolve from a rubbering-in perspective.