Red Vines are the best. Once started in the mouth, hands are optional.

This is a really good choice. Easy in and out. Easy wrenching. Rarely needs a dealer service trip. Lots of resources out there to keep them in good shape. Parts availability is still quite good. 30k will get you a really good example, new paint, and an M/S5x swap with money left over.

Aside from an ant farm, why would anyone be delivering ants?

I giggled at Deliverus Prime.

It was still pretty easy to reach.

The separate shoulder belt was pretty common in that era.

Just spotted your user name. I hope you still have it. Mine’s been gone for years. On the plus side I still have an E36 Cabrio and an X3 35iX.

That’s pretty much why I no-diced it. None of the issues really scare me. But if I’m going to go through the effort and expense of bringing one up to snuff, it’s going to be for a V8.

The Foxwell 510 Elite is a bit more general purpose than that. You can load multiple different manufacturer packages on one device. I picked up the NT530 and I have BMW and Audi loaded on that one.

Unfortunately, that’s not too far off the mark.

No, it’s not. You don’t have title to the car. No title is transferred and no taxes are paid on the sale of a car. If you asked your local DMV, they’ll tell you the leasing company still owns the car. Again, this comes down to what your lease contract allows you to do with respect to a third party lease buyout.

All good, but they are not selling the car. They are selling the lease. The new lease owner is then purchasing the car at the contracted buy-out terms. The question is really what rights does the lease contract give the lessor with regards to controlling the buy-out by the third party.

Exactly. It’s all just basic wiring here.

I’m with you on your take. Too many things to deal with at that price. Even with today’s inflated pricing, it needs to be under $5k.

True, but if their calculations of the rotation speed are ballpark correct, they still blew past the speed of sound at standard sea level conditions. They likely went well past what the calculations showed since the radius of the tire increased with rpm.

I’d have to agree on that for the ML320. The later ML350 and ML500 from 2002-2005 or the AMG models would certainly be more desirable.

I understand where you’re coming from. My newest car is a 2012. My next newest car is a 1998. The 2012 has many nice features, but most of them are ones I could live without. All except one. My newest one has adaptive lighting (HID headlamps that steer) and that is a feature I will require on any future car that…

I’d have to agree that basically no car is best in its base trim. The sweet spot is almost always the mid-level trim. The base level is death by a thousand cuts. Sure there’s plenty of stuff you can live without, but there will always be something that they cut that would be very desirable.

PIT maneuvers should always require authorization from a superior. It may still be a bad idea, but at least it takes the “heat of the moment” excuse out of the picture.

Snows + AWD = pretty much unstoppable