A friend of mine battled the Nevada DMV over “ho.” His family spends much of their time at Lake Tahoe and they put a plate on their truck saying GOTOHOE. At some point they were told it was offensive and had to defend it. It wasn’t a huge battle, but we were all surprised the DMV felt the need to protect the public…

Maybe rear visibility isn’t much of a concern with real-view cameras and lots of sensors and warnings? I drive a car with almost zero rear window visibility (Pantera) and my problems would be solved with a camera.

I had an e36 M3 until recently and adored it. I have other cars but the e36 became my daily driver because I loved the feel. It had the usual - tune, intake, exhaust - and seemed eager to do whatever I asked of it.

Former drummer here - watching their drummer drove me crazy, too. It went WAY beyond passion and into...mime performance?

Is your car silver with black wheels and a wing? Total long shot, but I am in Vegas and sold my 1999 911 c2 to a lovely couple in California. They sold it a year or so ago.

Agreed. I didn’t mean there is no market, I was genuinely curious who is buying them, what their motivation is and what cars are cross-shopped.

At that crazy price, though? Seems like there would be better options than a raced out, fat BMW.

I drive an impractical, unlivable, inconvenient asshole of a car and even I think this is dumb. Hell, I like BMW, have owned an M3 and think this is dumb. Especially at this price.

Either Hulu or Amazon Prime has all the Seinfeld episodes. I think it is Hulu.

Agreed that a huge amount of energy and creativity is wasted, mostly to promote buying unneeded things. Still, being well paid to spend my days making pretty things feels like a privilege.

I share in your celebration of this kitty campaign!

Some (most?) of the exotic rental companies in Vegas are willing to make appalling shortcuts on maintenance and repairs to keep costs down, to the point of knowingly making the cars unsafe.

I wanted one ever since my older step-brother put up a poster when I was a kid. They are very visceral cars - quite the experience.

What?! Someone cloned my plate?! And put it on a garish, horrible car?! That is shocking...SHOCKING I SAY! You can clearly see my car is white.

Ugh, a million times this. BMW, Porsche (sold both not that long ago) and Pantera owner. Also a Scion xB, heh. Try dating again in your mid 40s and avoiding that additional minefield of stereotypes and judgements.

Hell, I think you are right. It did seem to crunch the hell out of the other car within sustaining much damage. Apparently they kick ass at tank tech, video cam proliferation, oligarchy and hacking?

Oh yeah...Russia. Sometimes I think it would be fun to mix the wild west with modern life, and then I remember that already exists and the video footage is scary as hell.

I bet they stripped that wrap off the car INSTANTLY.

Absolutely. Oftentimes I only leave the house once or twice a week, so it is always a joy to drive, even if I get stuck in traffic. I need to start going for drives on the weekends again.

This was a great read and I look forward to more!