Pretty much, but with one caveat: Don’t get rid of cities, get rid of ‘downtown’.

If you buy a new 911, you’re just throwing away $33k in depreciation in the first year alone.

The thing is, the Corvette and 911 are no longer sportscars, they’re supercars. 500HP is not ‘normal car’ levels.

If you’re starting with a $200k car as your base, the cost of building a new, identical frame instead is not a factor.

Even in that hypothetical, starting with a replica still makes more sense. Whether you redesign anything or not, you can still start with all new components rather than ones with seventy years of wear and tear. Metal really does lose some of it’s strength as it’s repeatedly stressed, and there are some legal…

It’s not a sacrifice to build something better than the original. Using a worn-out frame that was never designed for modern components, on the other hand, absolutely is a sacrifice, and since the result isn’t original anyway, there’s nothing gained by doing so.

The important part is ‘sample size’, not ‘type of user’. BMW likely sells more cars a day than John Deere sells tractors in a year.

The end product, I understand. Building it out of an original instead of a replica, I do not.

It’s highly unlikely that will happen. And even if it does, it’s not like legality does anything to deter software piracy.

There is one small upside to this: All the cars will have all the hardware for all features.

I’m sure you’re aware of this, but hardly anyone is even trying to make true AI anymore. The idea of code that follows some logical path to get to an outcome and can modify it’s own logic has basically been given up on as ‘too hard’.

Am I the only one that can’t take ‘luxury sedan’ and ‘Four Cylinder’ seriously? To me, if it’s got a four cylinder engine, it’s not a luxury car, no matter how much power it makes.

Prefix: I’m not from the south.

But now they can do a three year series on ‘what it takes to restore a car after submerging it in a pool’.

It’s not so much that they can’t, as that it’s not practical.  You don’t spend a year or two building your race team then double it’s size in a month for just one race.

The thing is, it’s just a flag. It doesn’t have to stand for anything, just a historical curiosity. Everyone it truly held meaning for died in or shortly after the 1860s.

You can realistically expect fans (and some participants) to stay awake for 24 or 25 hours, not so much for 48.  It doesn’t make sense to schedule a spectator event that nobody can watch all of.

Well, I know for a fact that some people don’t recognize the confederate flag as anything more than ‘that thing painted on the roof of the dukes of hazzard car’ (at least until recently). To them it’s no different than stripes.

On the other hand, 40,000 goes a really long way in the used market today.

I’ll never understand this.  Why would I want a car that sits high enough that I can’t see the cars right next to me, and can’t see the road in front of me at all?