Gonna guess that the real limitation here is tires. The Mustang is a heavy car for tires rolling at high speed.

Yeah, now’s the time, I think.

If I had infinite free time I’d build one with the S52 motor out of the BMW M3, a supercharger, and a custom interior. There’s nothing wrong with the E30 vert that another 200 or so horsepower wouldn’t fix.

Yeah, MSRP for the 325i drop in ‘88 was $25k (base). By ‘91 that had climbed to $34.5k due to exchange rate changes.

Yeah, same. It’s pretty, and fast, and not usable for anything. The range probably means you can’t even do more than 1 or 2 twenty-minute lapping sessions at a track day.

It’s just going to get trailered to the sand pit and charged off a 3Kw Honda generator.

Yeah, 356B’s weren’t *that* cheap back then. This was still probably $15-25k car in 1990s dollars.

Great green gravy this is good.

Centerfold in that book:

OK, so former and future Ferrari owner here. Here’s how this works: Even though it’s a “standard” model, the mid-engined V-8s have about a 2-year long waiting list. As we speak, calls are going out from dealers to people who have a 488 GTB build slot, saying, in effect, “GOOD NEWS! We’re going to sell you a totally…

^^^ COTD

Oh, there’s a very Catholic pain-with-your-pleasure that comes with owning an ‘80s Ferrari. The Lord repayeth your wickedness with timing belt changes, and the holy spirit of “while you’re in there” wilt heap pain upon pain, such that you will cry out as if whipped when you see the mechanic’s bill for the 5-year…

Fancy Kristen employs them for when she wants to put the hard top on her R107 560SL.

I’m in the opposite camp here. If you’re going to make me interact with yet another glowing screen in the course of my day, it had better respond right fucking now. Latency in touchscreens is a definite dealbreaker for me.

Yeah, this thing would lease out at somewhere around $2200-2600/month, depending on the terms. I don’t think they’ll even write that lease unless you have income verification over $150k / year, and it’s really not prudent unless you’re making over $300k/year and you’re pretty sure your income is secure over the entire…

But then you forfeit probably all but 20 pounds of the weight reduction. So...erm...you’ve paid $50k extra for a diffuser and a bit more boost.

Yeah, you called it right. The S65 sorta-kinda made sense when it would pull away from the S63 above 100 MPH. But now the S63 is the faster car under nearly all circumstances, and the interiors are the same. The V-12 sounds cool, but it doesn’t sound a whole 50% cooler than the V-8.

If we had any sense we wouldn’t be on Jalopnik. But what fun is that?

Naw, I like to be the new money and make my friends laugh with my hood-rich tendencies. Old money friends in my circle have a level of relaxed anxiety-free mental health that I will never have, no matter how big my E*Trade account balance...but also they know that I’m a feral street cat and they’ll always be soft…

I’m probably not the average S-Class owner. And my experience is it’s a lot easier in a sedan with a lot of legroom than in a wagon. (There’s something about folding down the back seat that kind of interrupts the foreplay.)