The likelihood of the IRS determining that you made money on a car sale unless you’re selling a supercar is about 0 for the average human.

That’s why you start having spouses and relatives sign the titles... At least from what I’ve seen that is.

I don’t care if the next owner gets perfect paint. I’d rather enjoy looking at the car now, paint chips be damned. Same deal with couch covers and car bras. Why make something look stupid while you have it so it looks nice when you don’t have it?

Probably just something they had around and used to weight down the tarp.

Oh Doug, you have not had to deal with economy car salesmen selling anything performance orientated.

You mean, like they do in NASCAR?

Why not?
It is already the stupidest idea in racing, why not allow it to go on the whole race.

You forgot, if the car is worth less than $500 trade in, RALLY CROSS!

I've always wondered if big trucks wouldn't benefit from using a big beefy CVT transmission instead of a geared one. Diesels, especially big ones, have a very narrow range of RPMs that they like. Typically only a range of a couple hundred RPMs. A CVT could be programmed to keep the engine in that narrow RPM range…

Another major consideration is how quickly you need to sell. Selling my last car took 5 weeks of patiently waiting for the right buyer. If you can't wait or you need a new car now, trading would be a better option.

Yes to all of this. I got divorced in my 30s, and had been with my wife since I was a teenager...so this whole newfangled online dating thing was a total fucking mystery to me. I worked hard to build an extensive profile, and I threw things out there that I thought were important...for example, my profile started off…

And this is exactly how and why I got my Cayman! Porsche dealers also make you feel special and fancy and valued, even if you're just an unwashed peasant buying a used car.

I too find this fascinating. But I'm really happy with my $7,000 car, others have higher standards.

I figure it's part how much they have to pay to be located in LAX and part we need a little extra to actually make money. Yeah, its a little expensive, but that's why you should bring your own shit to snack on if you think it's more expensive than a lawyer to sue the place.

That engine sure would be great in a rat rod.........

It's true. It's a warzone here in the Tokyo regional area. Wild packs of s15s everywhere, drifting through the tiny shopfront streets, into school yards, through company parking lots. Revving, slinging gravel, tussling with police kei cars which cannot keep up.

Ralph Lauren has earned it pretty well, it must be said...though it's still kinda disturbing that wealth inequality enables this. I have it on good authority that Blake Nordstrom has a hangar with a 1300 car collection outside of Seattle, and that he's also a nice guy, and I even really like his stores! But still. Who…

Agreed. People just don't understand. Even though all the magazines scream "it's so good", people think it's some type of journalistic payoff from BMW. The car has a chassis that has to be driven to be understood, and an engine that is just off the charts bonkers. There is no other car that I have driven (and have…