(1) Elon Musk is very rich and already known to be fairly weird, and he has made some very public bad judgments lately;

It’s *almost* great. The proportions are fantastic, and the surfacing of the hood and doors are beautiful.

This one certainly makes the Bangle version look better. But the 2009-2016 version is the best Z4. And Z3 > Z4 (still).

David, can you please, PLEASE start looking on Craigslists from the Southwestern part of the country? Rust-free Jeeps exist. They are a thing. You need to find them and we will find Jalops who can trailer them to you.

Assuming you’re serious, this is the end of a memorable era. I continue to be in awe of your ability to find pictures that match the topic. A tip of the hat to you, and may you actually own a GT40 someday.

Hello, actual San Franciscan here. Things are expensive here because a lot of people want to live here. Most of California is a nice place to live. It’s pretty, not so many assholes, and a shit-ton of high-paying jobs. Anyone who can show up sober, on-time, and fog a fucking mirror is getting $25/hour, and sky’s…

Which is why the majority of Americans obey the speed limit and nobody ever does illegal drugs. Uh-huh. Sure, cowboy.

I’m doing something similar to a Porsche 928S4 right now. Very excited to have this as a weekend toy.

Take one apart and see for yourself.

In terms of the component sources and quality, as well as the materials costs, a 991 is built very much like an A6. Yes, they are obviously different platforms. But the 991 and Boxster/Caymen are built like much cheaper cars than their MSRP would suggest. And Porsche also gets about a 10% surcharge on every SUV…

They acknowledge them on the website but never feature them in “heritage” marketing. They have to keep hammering on the 911 as their “heritage” to get mid-career professionals to pay $110k for what is basically an Audi with a funny-sounding engine.

This deserves more stars.

$3-4M is, alas, more mad money than I’ve got right now. And no doubt whoever buys this thing will be able to sell it for 2x that, at least, in 5 years. I has a sad.

Aaaah. OK. I felt a little twinge of pain watching that mast snap!

That’s a very expensive looking sailing accident! What actually happened there? The Audi boat was trying to avoid the little red boat and that put them on a collision course with the other sailing vessel?

I think what’s going on is they’re trying to get to a car that spun to the wall on the right of the frame. That is technically the outside of turn 7A, but you can think of it as spinning out of the inside of 7. So the tow truck *had* to cut across at a fairly sharp angle to get there from that access road.

Because SCCA is hanging on to its insurance by a thread, and doesn’t want to admit any fault.

Similarly polarizing: Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari was a legendary asshole, literally accused of murder. He treated customers so badly that at least two started their own car company. The build quality of their road cars was iffy, reliability “meh” at best, and the parts and maintenance costs were - and are - Italian…

Well, young Color-Commentary was *very* hyped about those cars back then. Which explains what’s in my garage right now. (Including yesterday’s acquisition: a 200k-mile Porsche 928 that is leaking oil on my driveway as we speak. (It *was* leaking gasoline, so I have improved certain matters in the first 24 hours of…

100% this. Fuel injection and ABS were great advancements - you can daily drive a European or Japanese car of the 1990s and not feel like you’re endangering yourself or your family.