At least some prices are heading toward reality. If only the same applied to older European cars in the U.S. (911s obviously, but the same inflated prices seem to apply to just about anything pre-1990).

Now that I look, I’m seriously tempted by this thing. Not one, but TWO Lancia Scorpions, which I didn’t even know existed until about ten minutes ago, for $8500. Mid-engine Italian exotic (by virtue of rarity) that’s inevitably going to catch fire? Sounds like a great idea.  Not the best color combo, but at least the…

I feel like there has to be a market for a ‘reliability survey’ that only counts critical failures that make the car undriveable.

I didn’t even know that there were digital gauges available on these cars, my ‘17 86 has all analog gauges and they’re great.

I was kind of the reverse: there was nothing else on the market that I considered when I bought my 86 except for a BRZ.

A $250 G27 and your desk is more than enough to be competitive in any sim racing game. A fancy chair, extra monitor, better wheel, and better pedals may make the experience more fun, and therefore cause you to put more time into it and get better as a result, but they won’t make you faster.

Compared to the subscription costs for iRacing, $750 is nothing.  iRacing only makes sense if you’re ok with only driving a single car on a single track.  If you want to do anything else, there are better games.

I see third-party vehicle operating systems in our future.

How about we drop the 25 year rule while we’re at it?  Should be easier once everyone is following the same standards.

New cars and existing cars are very different things. Nobody wants to outlaw used cars. Encouraging new electric cars and keeping old cars on the road are not mutually exclusive.

Weight is a pretty obvious reason that that won’t work. Add a ton of batteries to a Miata and you lose the only thing it has going for it.

It’s a great idea but... good luck. Companies don’t like standards when it’s more profitable to deliberately make things incompatible (and actively prevent their competition from using the same standard they do).

Part of the problem was the ‘bar of soap’ designs that absolutely dominated the early 2000s. I’m pretty sure everybody hated those, and angry face was the response.

I’ve never even seen a Phaeton before and here’s one for sale locally for just $5k. I’ve even been to that dealer before, it’s your typical cramped low-budget lot with way more ultra-high-mileage German cars than they have space to park (or wash). They did have a nice FD RX-7 for about six months though.

If the titles are clean the cars alone are worth $20-30k.

Even an engineless shell of an FD RX-7 is worth more than $15k these days.  Engine replacements are cheap, interior and bodywork are unobtainable.

Speed limits are low enough (in most of the country) that commercial traffic can consistently keep up with them. The very rightmost lane will slow down some for onramps and offramps, but that’s why other lanes exist, you move out of the right lane to make room for merging traffic.

When I say ‘labor prices’, I mean what I have to pay other than for parts.  I realize it goes into other stuff for the business doing the work, but to me, is $X above what the materials cost is.

This doesn’t even remotely surprise me. Labor prices for having even the most minor work done on a house are insane, to the point that it’s almost always worth doing it yourself unless it requires specialized tools or is easy to make mistakes and not notice them (i.e gas lines).

Yeah, that was my point. The fuel and emissions used/produced on track is irrelevant for such a small grid of cars.