Front-wheel drive, though. May as well get a GTI.

Ah. I didn’t realize. So Jag is the last car standing?

The new E53 with the inline-6 is the one I’ve currently got a stiffie for. It seems just the right amount of fast for a street car. And the sound of an inline-6 is always niiiiiiice.

If you’re stuck with an automatic, may as well be stuck with a good one.

Yeah, I’m super disappointed at this move, but I expected to be thoroughly disappointed by the new 3-series in its entirety. I daily-drove various 3-Series models for 15 years, but no more.

Yeah, this exactly. This is just a hot mess.

Yeah, to me this new one is remarkably ugly, and the outgoing one isn’t. There’s a lot of surfacing and weird cutlines on this new one that lack rhythm and harmony.

I also love this Thum guy getting on his moral high horse and being like “I just can’t abide the horrible immoral lies in the eBay ad” when it appears he’s also structured this whole deal to fool his wife’s divorce lawyer.

^^^ This. So far, nothing from the LFA has ended up in other production Toyotas. The 959 is the parent of a whole bloodline, whereas the LFA was ... barren.

Ah, but the Viper version that was just discontinued - that car is really special. Totally agree that it’s a collectors item, especially in ACR form.

I can pretty much guarantee that I’d be happier sleeping on a futon in the back of a Ferrari Lusso T than living in my house.

Same. They depreciate hilariously, too, and look like kind of a bargain at $150k. “Bargain” in quotes, of course.

Meh. That’s what the warranty is for. By the time you’ve had the car for 3 years we’ll see some real-world data on whether they specc’ed these components well enough.

I’ve been racing 944s for a while. Conventional wisdom is that it matters above 80 MPH. We’ve done testing with and without the rear hatch on the car, and things feel very different above 60.

^^^^ This. 

Look at the size of that carb and fuel line, and tell me if you think it’s really making 350 at the crank. I’d also expect an MSD box bolted to the firewall if you’re trying to make that kind of power.

The price isn’t out of line for a LS-swapped 944. But this isn’t an LS. It’s an old carbureted SBC, making somewhere between 180 and 300 horses. Sad trombone.

Yeah, *I’m* disappointed that I was not aware of this event. I’ve got a couple of transaxle Porsches that would have wanted to be on it. I’ve done the drive from Oroville to Lassen, and it’s lovely.

I really hope you get some money to burn. That’s an *excellent* use of it.

I’ve had a similar conversation. I truly believe that having a Passat as a daily driver + false modesty about my car collection cost me one of the great romantic connections of my life. It redoubled my Tavarish-like commitment to dubious but luxurious old cars as daily drivers.