Golly jeeper willikers, where the hell was this beast when I was in the market two months ago?! Sigh…

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Even as a regular reader on this site, I’m still not that familiar with how CarMax operates so I have one question; do they only sell cars via loans? Can a buyer offer cash on the barrel head? If loans are the only way they sell cars then there’s even more profit on top of the “$2,147 per vehicle”, which is…

Good to know! Thanks.

I would have no problem spending up to $10k on this car.

You people have no imagination. I bet a V16 could be wedged between both bumpers!

It’s only silly because the G8 would have been a more appropriate car, for comparison, considering their layouts. But the G8 wasn’t around on ‘06 and for some odd reason I was hung up on year. Bottom line, there are special people who absolutely have to drive a top shelf German marques and thus they are spending more…

For all the local kids out there, Lime Rock Park [northwest CT] has a vintage festival every year during the Labor Day weekend. Although you may not be rubbing elbows with Mr. Danny Ocean, on his lake, you will see many cars of this caliber over the course of the 4 days. Vintage racing occurs 3 of the 4 days and…

It looks like a Vector from that angle. This car’s design is horribly derivative.

How unbalanced is that Elise now that it has V10 “boat anchor” mid-ship? Still, this is awesome good crazy thinking!!! ❤️

IT’S GOT A STICK!!!!!!

I’m at the point in life where I want good ol’ reliability in EVERYTHING!!

Your summation of the Phaeton helps sum up my aversion to these W12 engines.

I’m gonna claim ignorance here, is that W12 reliable?

I’ve seen nice ones in the low to mid $20k range. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place ;~]

Ha ha ha! I guess that’s significantly more important to some people. Still, your comment is funny!

I wasn’t really trying to make the point about engine balance since both of these configurations have even numbers of cylinders in each bank. But yea, I’ve also known that about I6/V6 balance differences, as I’m sure many of us on this site also know. My main point was about cost of ownership in a domestic vs import…

Yea, I got too hung up on model year. The G8 maybe would’ve been a slightly better comparison. It’s really a domestic market vs import market contrast that I was going for.

“But then I thought GTO. About one step up from a LS swapped Cavalier.”

Yea ok but long term ownership costs. Plus it’s got to be cheaper to mod a Poncho than an Audi. Also, with all due respect, your “balance” reference is hair splitting, no?