I’m at 3 years and 215k miles on my S500 of similar vintage. For a CL55, the engine is the expensive piece and they *are* known to run pretty long. Known issues are

David Tracy basically has a Penn and Teller routine where he’s both guys. Like Teller, he suffers comically for our sadistic amusement, but he is his own Penn Jilette, inflicting it unwisely on himself.

Anyone who is thinking of this as a collector vehicle wants fewer miles. Anyone who wants a car for their young daughter wants fewer miles. The buyer here is a middle aged dude who wants a red convertible but doesn’t want a Mustang/Camaro.

Does it still ride like an oxcart? That’s the deal-breaker for me. The only German SUV that strikes me as comfortable for a tow-to-the-racetrack length trip is the GLS550. (Which somehow became a $100k truck while I wasn’t looking, so it looks like our next tow vehicle will be a Yukon Denali.)

Erm, not all of us.

I dunno. Used Ferrari owners are masochists, in my experience. They (formerly “we”) put up with all kinds of shit that would have Porsche owners dialing up their lawyers.

I know first hand and have other corroborating stories from my Ferrari mechanic. This isn’t just some forum bullshit. These guys are notorious.

Blackhorse always has some really interesting cars for sale, not just Ferraris. But they are known in the Ferrari community as particularly crooked - forging maintenance records, stripping expensive OEM parts off cars and replacing them with cheap knockoffs without disclosing it to the buyers, and generally…

5000 lb tow rating with the Ecoboost.

Jalops don’t let Jalops buy Priuses.

Three that I thought would be obvious:

That European-spec Series 1 is pretty damn cool!

Yes, AB is known cray-cray. Still not okay to choke her out. Also not really okay to spit on her.

Yeah, even a *good* 914 doesn’t really feel like a whole car. Super fun to autocross, though.

I think it’s beautiful. It’s like a Mustang that lost weight and stopped wearing such silly makeup.

This thing will have a $599/month lease special with $5k down on the 4-cylinder with a fancy interior. I’m not sure what black sorcery they’ll have to do with the residual and term to make that work, but I’m sure that’s where this thing fits in the hierarchy.

Yeah, that’s the thing. It makes a lot of sense at $50k, but at $85k you could get the big Rangie. I know a lot of city-dwellers would want the smaller car, though. Since urbanites are the core Range Rover demographic nowadays, they’ll sell a bajillion of these.

Yup. I’m expecting to see a lot of these on the streets of San Francisco soon.

Yup, pre-smog Eldos were damn fast in a straight line. And with the willowy suspension and squishy drum brakes at all four corners, scary as hell to try and drive fast.

Yup, pre-smog Eldos were damn fast in a straight line. And with the willowy suspension and squishy drum brakes at all four corners, scary as hell to try and drive fast.