I still don’t get it. Every single problem with scooter rental companies is very easily solved: BUY YOUR OWN SCOOTER.

The thing is, it’s still only five years old with next to no miles on it. Unless it has some well-known catastrophic problem (e.g. IMS bearing in early boxsters or ignition coils in the RX-8), it’s highly unlikely that anything serious is going to go wrong.

‘Quick’ better be relative. We’ll need at least twenty years after electric cars are a majority (well over 50%) of new car sales before even considering regulating out gasoline cars. Otherwise a big chunk of the market will literally have no cars they can afford to drive.

Did 300SLs quadruple in price recently for some reason? I remember them selling in the 200-300k range for years in a row. They’re nice I guess but I wouldn’t even put them near the ballpark of a lot of the other million dollar classics.

I was in Pensacola one fourth of July not realizing the blue angels had a show right then. Let’s just say it’s very surprising to have four F-18s fly directly over you at MAYBE 300 feet up without warning.

How great (or terrible) is it? I’ve seriously considered one of these as a weekend car several times, but I’m always put off by the lack of a manual. From what I hear they’re actually reasonably reliable.

$15k plus $5k is still an awful lot less than the cost of buying a generation earlier or later. 996s and 986s are cheap, just do your homework. They’re far from the only used car with mandatory maintenance.

Well it’s mid-engine, for a start. Not really the same market though, even the last-gen Vipers were like 100-200k, compared to 500k+ for a Carrera GT.

Well I already bought a new manual 86 in 2017, it’s a bit too soon to do it again.

How about they offer the ‘current’ Supra without the dumb fake door vent and with a manual transmission first?

It’s also very, very difficult (at least, it was for 10 year old me).  I had an easier time riding a unicycle than going anywhere on a pogo stick.

Another interior with a tacked-on infotainment screen. They even cut out a cubby for it and then decided ‘oh, the screen we want to use won’t fit there? Oh well, use it anyway.’

This is what my ‘normal’ campsite looked like that weekend (they moved all the RVs to a service lot just past the campground).

Only if the engine is relatively weak (or it’s a track car). In most cases, once you get over ~300HP, you can’t even legally top out second gear.

I kind of wonder why it’s a turbo. Doesn’t electric assistance provide essentially the same benefit, without the downsides of a turbo?

The 4C essentially destroyed it’s own market. Alfa built an extremely lightweight car without many creature comforts for the kind of buyer who wants a Lotus, but for the street instead of the track.

And thus cars of the 90s are just starting to leave common circulation.  It’s not exactly necessary to check that a door is locked anymore, but it doesn’t hurt, either.

Older (circa 1990) power locks weren’t particularly reliable and it was a common habit to try pulling the door handle after locking the door to make sure it had actually locked instead of, you know, getting itself stuck halfway through or ignored your button press entirely.

Why should I?  I still see zero advantages to keyless entry, at least for my use case.  And there’s an advantage to not having it: it’s a simpler design.

Maybe it was just what was in stock near me. Every BRZ I saw had push button start, none of the 86s did. (Was buying in 2017, and because my previous car was totaled, so ordering was not an option).