I think a more accurate statement is ‘no reason to buy that over a 911'. Modern 911s are basically GT cars already. A luxury two-door 2+2 GT car is a useful segment, but Porsche already has it covered.

If bicycles could travel through/over buildings, sure.

If those two miles are through gridlocked traffic and you have an hour to live, yeah, a drone totally makes sense.  Longer trips, a full size helicopter is probably still needed, but transporting anything time sensitive by car is a really bad idea.

I am actually mildly dissapointed. Because I bought a NEW car here two years ago and had to drill holes in the bumper to mount my front plate.

I write software for a living, so the chances of me ever working on someone’s car are just about zero.

I’d argue that even below 300HP, less power is more fun in the real world. My ‘79 RX-7 was a ton of fun because it was light and only had 100HP (on a good day), so you could regularly push it to the redline without speeding.

It’s usually going to be sitting in a parking lot at the dealer as well in the time they’re not actively working on it.  I doubt insurance cares about the difference.

Aside from tailgating, I have to wonder if there’s really anything wrong here, on the condition that they needed to take it for a short test drive anyway.

The value in an accident-free history isn’t so much in the actual sale value of the car, it’s in the number of interested buyers. A huge percentage of buyers are just going to walk away (or never look at) any car with any accident history.

Taxes and insurance are hugely dependent on where you live. Here, the registration fee for ANY car is a flat $50ish a year.  Insurance doesn’t vary by a whole lot either (I went from a 2007 to a 2017 a couple years ago and saw like a $50 yearly difference for the same plan).

Can someone explain to me how the entire scooter rental business model is not completely invalidated by such a simple idea as “Buy your own scooter”?

A full-size GT (or a bigger Miata) is treading waay too close to RX-9 territory. Not going to happen if only because of the backlash they’d get (primarily from the intended market) for it not being rotary powered.

I agree with this, but ONLY because of the “FWD” part. A similarly priced/similarly equipped RWD midsize sedan is a great car. But going to RWD generally raises the price (i.e. an equivalently specced Stinger).

While from a functional perspective, the Stinger is a much better car (RWD mainly), the styling, especially the interior, is terrible compared to the Mazda.

Give it a few years and most of them will fail and we’ll be back to one or two. The same thing happened with search engines, and is happening right now with gaming platforms (steam, Origin, etc.)

I have to wonder why you’d buy one of these over a Caterham.

The mordern part of that statement is vague and really seriously important.  Mazda for one just picked random colors for wiring early RX-7s, you had to rely on the wiring diagram, which varied by year, to know what colors went what.

If you don’t drive on the street very often (or not at all), you pretty much can.

So you can just randomly work extra hours and get paid for them?  That’d be nice.  Most salary jobs do not work like that.

I feel like I must be missing something.