Ah, so that’s how he made his money. I was wondering. Dude has a collection that probably is $20k / month even if he’s leasing it. 

Oh yes you most certainly can.

$121k will buy you a perfectly nice low-mile FD RX-7 and a good Z32 300ZX Twin Turbo and a decent S2000.

My wife says that a lot.

At 135k I’d be more worried about rings and cylinder wall scoring on that motor - the metallurgy is not quite up to Metzger flat-6 standards. The upside is that those motors are relatively cheap - $1700 on eBay and way less if you run to the pick-n-pull.

Lexus should make a convertible ES350. It would be the spiritual successor to the LeBaron convertible, and they’d sell half a million of them in South Florida alone.

My eye says the opposite: The bronze on grey looks elegant. The grey on red is ... not right somehow.

FWIW, the spare tire is explicitly part of the front crash structure of air-cooled 911s. The factory warns against replacing the spare with any aftermarket rim.

Aha! I stand corrected.

I’m with Mr. (or Ms.) box rocket on this.

Looks good on a 944:

I’ve driven every non-truck vehicle in that 1990s lineup, and they were *all* fun to drive for their class. The Millenia and 929 were both mechanically delightful, more than a little BMW-ish in their manners.

Another fun fact: The healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente started as the in-house health plan of the Kaiser group of industrial companies.

Oh, I should add that (4) Alanis’ take on pizza is horrible and disturbing.

I have three complaints about the female writing staff of Jalopnik:

Yeah, inner quarters are part of the crash structure.

^^^ This. Ironically, this is what the VH-platform Astons were so great at. You don’t want to drive a Ferrari 458 from San Francisco to LA, but in a DB9 or a Vantage it’s a perfectly comfortable drive.

Yeah, I shudder to imagine what the procedure is to replace the clutches on that dual-clutch automatic. And they didn’t sell enough of these for the parts to be cheap and available from multiple aftermarket suppliers.

I’m shocked to discover that these things go for $30-40k after 3 years. That kind of money will get you a used C63 or E63, or even an S63 if you go back to the W221 chassis.