Well-written article Torch, although the timeline of the switch from Stage 3 to Stage 4 could be debatable. I personally think it happened sometime last year.

I sold it in late November after making about 30% profit in only a few months. I felt like a king! Still a good deal... but oh, what could have been... 

My wife and I follow F1 pretty closely... here are some thoughts:

I really hope this ends up being a luxury SUV and not a reintroduction of the failed, ugly Mark LT or Blackwood.

Kia Sportage is like that, too - except those lower lights are ALWAYS the brake light on the Sportage and the bigger tailgate-mounted lenses, which you’d expect to be brake lights also, are only there as taillamps when the headlights are on. 

That shouldn’t be too hard - Jeep says the Wrangler starts at $28k but it goes upwards from there pretty quickly. A 4-door Wrangler Sahara is already north of $45k.

This will sell well, but for it to sell REALLY well and really bite into the cult of Jeep there needs to be a ridiculous amount of aftermarket support for it.

Hopefully someday they develop Marty 2.0 who is more entertaining.

I bet he’s still alive, but after going through whatever kind of traumatic event he experienced, he’ll just be a shell of his former self.

You’re welcome! Glad you’re going to give them a try... I haven’t had a bad meal there yet! The menu is huge, but I almost always go for a spud omelette because it’s unique to them.

I’m on board with this philosophy and have used it to recreate one of my favorite breakfast-joint dishes at home: the Spud Omelette.

When I was buying my Stelvio there was a 2-year-old Ghibli in the showroom, which I was excited to sit in because I perceived Maserati to be a premium brand like Aston Martin. Boy was I disappointed... And I had the same experience with the Levante at the Chicago Auto Show last year. For what they’re asking they…

For the price range they compete in, they really need to improve the interior quality. If a $40-50k Alfa can have its own window switches and turn signal stalks, why does the $75k+ Maserati look and feel like a parts bin special inside?

This tire can’t be slashed...

UV exposure or just plain fatigue. All of those plastic fingers bending ever so slightly 1,000 times per mile x 50,000 miles (or whatever the expected lifespan is) just HAS to weaken them somehow, right?

I just learned about The Hu last week through Elton John’s “Rocket Hour” playlist on Apple. Really awesome! I also like their track “Yuve Yuve Yu” - I added it to my workout playlist in the unlikely event I ever go back to the gym. 

Congratulations, GM. You’ve used complicated technology to accomplish something that my Camaro could do 30 years ago. Bravo.

Yeah, you’re right. They absolutely COULD have done it, especially since they already had to make the rest of the bodywork for the front end, but it’s not shocking to me that a kit car manufacturer like this wouldn’t take that extra step. There are probably dozens of examples of things they could have done better to…

Good! Hopefully this means more shifting during oval races, and I REALLY hope it means more road courses on the calendar in place of the more boring oval tracks.