Not sure a old Viper with a stock exhaust deserves a price 😂

Look, capitan- ok, just wait, ok- hear us out:

Agreed. It is amazing how people are happy paying $50K for a new vehicle (as long as monthly payment fits) and then complain about paying an extra $1-2/gallon for gas. If you can’t fit an extra $500-1000 in your yearly budget to cover higher fuel payments, you really can’t afford the payments on the vehicle either.
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Because it’s economically unfeasible to make small cars, even if people wanted them.

Combine that with a market of buyers who don’t want to be crushed under a large truck/SUV (perceptional fear rather than genuine risk).

Because the people who can afford new SUVs and pickup trucks can generally afford to absorb the higher cost of gas (and if they can’t they have bigger problems).

It’s the “good times will never end” of low gas prices that happens every decade or so. I got premium for less than a dollar in the late 90s and it regularly stayed between $1-2 on average and creeped up to $4-6 in 2008. It’s how you got V10 Ford Excursions with 10mpg and no one blinked. Then the small car boom in…

The pricetag is worth it to get those fiddly mechanical engine parts swapped out for those legendary British electrical systems.

Honestly I dont get it either. The entire appeal of classic cars is more than just the bodywork, its the classic engineering and mechanics of old cars. Hearing a classic V8 in a mustang to the angry buzz of a MR2 is part of the experience. Im glad theyre not ruining actual mustangs for this but its just weird to me. 

Replacing the gas-powered running gear of old cars is not new and is something I’d gladly advocate for if it encourages more classics out onto the road

Both Biden’s fault. Imagine a world without these problems...oh, wait that’s easy:

Because the dems want to stay in power and this will result in them losing a significant amount of power in the upcoming elections.

Why did this take so long to happen?

Vettle seems to be on the correct side of quite a few issues. I really do like the guy. 

with clouds of doubt surrounding this year’s Russian Grand Prix in Sochi...

Mazepin’s first race victory is imminent.

I was like you, manual or nothing. Then I drove the Quadrifoglio in Race mode, and forgot about the missing clutch pedal.  Bought a 2020 and love every minute of driving it.

I was very close to buying a Quadrifoglio about a year ago and ended up with an M3 instead. The Alfa drove better and looked better, and reliability wasn’t a big concern for me since it’s a weekend car (daily the cheap two seater, road trip the big sedan), but lack of a manual just kills it for my use case.

If Alfa wants to be taken seriously, they should take the Hyundai Kia road and offer a 5 year/60k bumper-to-bumper and 100k powertrain warranty.

The author lives in Detroit, which everyone knows has NYC beat hands-down for hostility to cars, public transportation, and urban density.