Wouldn’t be that hard. Use the volume of the tire and the Combined Gas Law to get the number of moles of gas and then multiply that by Avagadro’s number. That would give a fairly accurate estimate. Maybe even within an order of magnitude of the actual number (especially if you use correction factors for other…

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That wing from the Subaru teaser image posted yesterday looks almost the same as the wing on the regular-engine’d BRZ tS in Japan. The wing upright supports and center horizontal section are not just close, they look exactly the same. Just a slight difference on the sides of the wing.

The number of significant digits is actually limited because the sig figs can’t exceed the point where you’re counting individual molecules. So you could theroretically, but not practically, reach 100 due to the quantization of the particles defining the composition an pressure inside the tire.

The number of molecules in the tire is quantized though, so if you could replace the gas one molecule at a time as it escaped the tire, you could theoretically reach 100% nitrogen at the specific end pressure if only for a fraction of a second. It’s practically impossible to reach 100 but not theoretically or…

It actually could theoretically reach 100% due to one fact: the number of molecules in the tire is quantized, so it can’t asymptotically approach a maximum. You’d have to be doing some impossibly quick and precise refilling near the end of the series, and it would probably take an absurd amount to time and many, many…

It would take a large amount of time and a ridiculous number of impossibly fast/precise refills, but it’s theoretically possible to reach 100% nitrogen because of one fact: the number of molecules in the tire is quantized.

It actually could theoretically reach 100% because it’s quantized, but you’d have to be doing some impossibly quick and precise refilling near the end of the series. Would probably take an absurd amount to time and many, many refills to get there too.

I don’t know how much allocation goes on with a $3,000,000 car, but I don’t think theres much at all.

The Lexus NX200t is rated at 235 hp while the BMW X1 is rated at 228 hp and the Lexus hits 60 in 7.0 seconds while the BMW takes 6.6 seconds. I wouldn’t say that’s “considerably quicker”. Most people wouldn’t even be able to tell the difference. The Lexus is also larger and heavier in that case. A better transmission…

I wonder how much overlap there is between the 275 people who will buy this for $3M, the ~425 Veyron owners out there, the 500+ La Ferrari owners, and the ~370 P1 owners.

I would say $17k-$19k is good even for that car.

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Fair enough. I would say your friend got a screaming deal at that price though if the car is in good shape.

Cadillac already sells the ATS in Germany: http://www.cadillac.de/modelle/pkw/ats-limousine/uebersicht.html

I would say more like $18k-$19k since it has the IMS done, but yeah.

Also remember that 2012 was 5 years ago so 996s have depreciated a little since then.

Not quite. You can get lower-milage cars with more options for that price. I think the milage and condition mean it’s at least $2,000 to much to pay for that car. Even cars from California or the Southwest are going for less than that with similar milage.

You paid $42,000 for a 2001 base 911 with 40k miles? Unless you bought it for that 10 years ago, yikes. That’s waaaay overpaying.

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