The move here would be to buy an Embraer Phenom 300, a civilian jet that costs about $9M new (as low as $3M used). That has ops costs of about $200k/year - far less per-mile than the Bugatti.

Because Ferrari and McLaren have proven that there definitely is. It’s 22-year old scions of oligarchs in Dubai, who don’t much give a shit about heritage, but love them some technologies.

Yeah, this. I’ve had more than one doctor tell me those systems are why they quit practice front-line medicine and went into drug / medical device development. And when I see the screens and workflow, that makes total sense.

That is exactly what happened - there were stories. Porsche changed the design quickly, to their credit, but you have to wonder why they thought that was going to work out in the first place.

Yeah, this generation of the Corolla looks tidy and handsome. It’s a much better-looking car than the one it replaced, and for that I’m thankful.

^^^ This. This is supply chain insufficiency, and it seems pretty obvious that Tesla prioritized manufacturing of new units over stocking the distribution channel with spare parts.

Also the Suzuki F6A 3-cylinder turbo: It’s in a whole bunch of Japanese microcars, the Autozam AZ-1 gullwing, some snowmobiles, and those Cushman micro-trucks that gardeners and rent-a-cops drive around college campuses.

I’d gotten the impression that the 888s were aging awfully well, based on the JD Powers and CR surveys. We had an 888 Passat that made it through the lease with zero issues - JDP says the Passat is up at that top of its class for problem rate three years into ownership. We’re now on year 4 with a GTI, also with no…

Right?! How many manufacturers have developed their own 2.0L turbocharged inline-4 at this point? They’re all developing roughly similar power output, too.

You deserve extra stars for the Twilight Zone .gif.

The interior and the technology package. If you compare it to the Mercedes and BMW coupes, the Lexus’ interior is lacking in materials quality. It looks really cool in pictures, but when you sit in one, in person, and then sit in any of the Benz coupes - even the E400 - the Lexus doesn’t feel like a $100k car.

So many dream garages for $200k:

This Barstool guy sounds like a premature ejaculator. Entrepreneurs like him implode eventually.

So many good combos you could put together for $200k:

You’re not wrong, but you’re benefiting from 20 years of people’s experience with these parts on E36s and E46s. Now we all know they’ll fail right about when the warranty does, and we know to replace them with aluminum-impeller pumps.

My guess would be emissions and fuel economy. They can make the engine get up to operating temperature a bit earlier and then bleed off the heat more precisely. Earlier light-off of the pre-cats would reduce emissions, and they’re always trying to manage the tradeoff between that and cat temperatures (DANGER TO…

With an air-to-water intercooler built in! I think we all know how plastic radiators on BMW have lasted. Seems like we can predict that replacing this with a metal part is a smart preventative maintenance item.

Yeah, chonky.

That is cool technology.