For the same price as this new, heavy (>4000 lb), ugly monstrosity that will instantly depreciate, you could buy a 5k-10k mile M4 GTS that is only going to go up in value.

In what world are people cross shopping a used E550 with a new Golf R? That’s like the smallest Venn diagram overlap ever.

Tolls fund the entirety of the project and its maintenance. 

Basically every vehicle would fail your “moose test” due to the way cars and moose are designed.

If the car/bus/van/whatever is cheap enough, you just register it in your home state (pay double taxes but have it legally). The Vermont loophole is best used for titling cars that don’t have a title.

There are certainly older Porsches that will hold value within her price range.

You said it yourself. MacPherson struts worked best on many generations of 911 because they are perfectly effective at handling loads for a car with most of its weight over the rear axle. 911s won thousands of race with MacPhersons, so I think it probably worked out pretty well.

Probably just that the different calipers they were evaluating happened to be powder coated different colors. It’s a pre-production mule, so you get a hodge-podge of parts sometimes.

No one really makes turbos in the way you describe (sequential). Modern turbos are perfectly capable of spooling quickly, so they run in parallel, not sequentially like in the 1990s.

I certainly didn’t intend to say that people think they “aren’t much help”.

I inadvertently bought one of these damaged battery Leafs at an auction for $4000 when I had my dealer license. I had just finished my MBA and wanted to save up money to buy something really cool (12C, 991 GT3, GT4, etc) with my signing bonus + a few months savings from my new job, so I thought a Leaf would be great…

Ah, it seems you bought in to the type of “research” that was first pioneered by the CTR.

What’s interesting is that even pre-Wakefield, trust levels in vaccines were falling in many countries.

Not sure if the bar should be that you don’t immediately harm society, especially when we are talking about phenomena that affect multiple (and future) generations.

So I assume you are talking about 2011 - where Jenson had 2 retirements and Lewis had 3. 2 of Lewis’ 3 retirements were due to collisions he caused. Both of Jenson’s were issues he could not help (hydraulics and wheel).

I don’t think you can really say “old Ham” with a straight face. He’s the same age (35) that Schumi was in 2004, when Schumi was incredibly dominant.

Technically, the Autostrada is not a public road but a toll road. Some portions are not in great shape, but generally they are much better maintained than American highways, especially further north like the Rome-Padua stretch they used.

I don’t know what Autotrada you’re driving on, but this just isn’t true. There are 3 or more lanes on the stretch between Rome and Padua and trucks are confined to the far right lane. It is very easy to average over 100mph - the left lane is usually flowing at the speed in non-camera stretches.

Italy, to my knowledge, doesn’t do asset seizures, so that’s not how they got the Lamborghini.

Have you been to Italy or either of those airports before? It would in no way be faster than a 2 hour drive. It’s very easy (especially if you are on a stretch without cameras) to average over 100mph on the Autostrada. I did it in a diesel Citroen wagon, in a Lamborghini it should not be an issue.