Indeed. During the time VW was doing the co-promotion with Starwood Hotels, my roomate was a Starwood manager. She brought the Phaeton home so I could drive it, and we compared it with a W220 S500 that the hotel also had. The Benz felt so much lighter on its feet, and simultaneously so much smoother in all its…

A compelling alternative.

Depends. Does your ex make noises as wonderful as the Countach’s?

“There is always a challenge between the car, and the power of the car, and the driver.” Translation: The Countach wants to kill you.

The good news/bad news with Lotus is that they’re selling so few cars in the US that the used ones barely depreciate. Evora S values are stubbornly hanging out in the $60k range, barely 30% depreciation after 7 years.

I’m guessing there’s a lot of Tatras and weird taillight fetish sites.

Dekotora: Usable space in outer space!

So many busted knuckles. So much cursing.

They are definitely ugly, but have you ever had to do serious engine work on a van with part of the engine underneath an interior “doghouse”? Or worse, something like a Sprinter where there *isn’t* an interior doghouse but a bunch of mechanicals are underneath the cowl? Lots of cursing. Lots of special tools and…

In my circle it’s all Subies, VWs, and Priuses. Our last party had so many GTIs out front that we could have started our own Hellaflush subreddit. Except for that fact that all the owners are in their early to mid 40s.

Just about everyone I know who owns a Subaru could afford a Macan/GLE/Q5, but they didn’t want a “fancy” car and definitely didn’t want an SUV. But they got them with leather interiors and such, because they could. So I’m pretty sure there would be takers on the turbo motor.

They would be Paganis. But I think a lot of Ferrari owners like having a car that was put together a little slapdash because it emphasizes the company’s disdain for everything that’s not an F1 car. Some people go to dominatrices, too.

As a happily former Ferrari owner, I can tell you that their engineering is pretty sloppy. They’re obviously good at *some* things, but sweating the details is usually not one of them. There’s usually at least a dozen visible design issues with every Ferrari that would have gotten an engineer fired had the same error…

Well, he’s already got a 997 GT3 RS *also*, according to the article. Dude wanted one of each flavor.

I’ve agreed with that before, and I agree with it here again. It would be the bargain M6. Can’t be that expensive to develop.

‘Buy Bitcoin at the right time with your weed-dealing profits.’

New Lifehacker sub-blog: ‘Standing Between the Catnip Testicles.’

I’ve pretty much got an amateur auto repair shop underneath my home. It’s the best part of the house.

I agree! Nowadays even Mercedes, despite their general habit of doing a lot of common-sense engineering to make the cars easy to maintain, wants you to take the car in to the dealer so badly that they don’t even put the oil spec in the owners’ manual. It’s infuriating.

For a Mini, I’d imagine that the cost of a used long-block + installation would be way less than diagnosing & rehabbing this questionable motor.