I’ve heard $8k for a clutch replacement including parts, but that’s at Aston dealer rates. But it’ll realistically last 40-50k miles if you treat it right. In general it’s reasonable or even attractive maintenance costs compared to Italian equivalents.

I have a stick-shift DB9 that I’ve driven on track. It is obviously very heavy, but it’s well-balanced and with the stick it’s engaging and quite a pleasure to be honest.

Manual coupes are too rare to really have a trackable price trend, especially if you limit yourself to the ‘09-’11 model years that have the updated engine. There’s maybe about a hundred of those in the US.

There should be laws against that kind of thing.

Yeah...a couple years ago I was apocalyptically stressed out and ill-rested, and one day my laptop at work got its remaining battery time estimate off by like five minutes and shut down before I could get my charger back to it. Honestly it had little practical effect on anything of consequence, but it set me the hell o…

You would think it’s that simple, but back in 2011 I was on the NJ Turnpike before I had gotten myself an EZ-Pass, and I ran out of cash. To my surprise they did not take credit cards, so they gave me 48 hours to send them a fucking money-order for the toll.

Yeah I remember when 550s were 85-90k, back 15 or so years ago when I thought I could eventually buy one, lol

I’d have a 550 myself if I didn’t feel Ferrari maintenance would be nightmarish. They are a bit more pricey to start as well, and going up I’m sure.

I’m not sure there was “thought” involved, let alone a “process.”

On the topic of Aston Martin, have you considered buying a DB9? Hard to find with a stick, but not impossible, and it’ll be under $70k. Best deal you can get on a big V12 with a stick-shift attached, IMO. You should be able to swing that as a 40-year-old DINK.

It looks like a “futuristic” concept car from 1996.

It was a factor when I bought my last daily driver, and is sometimes a factor when I decide which car to take someplace.

I was very curious how a camera/lens setup could manifest dead pixels on a sensor, and the article answered none of my questions. Here I was wondering if he was shooting UV lasers at his cameras or something, when actually the headline is from someone who doesn’t understand digital imaging.

Sensor dust doesn’t show up anywhere faster than an f/12 aperture, and usually not even until f/20 in my experience.

I just picked up a f/1.4 50 mm, and it easily over-exposes in daylight at wide-open 1/8000s with no filters on top. If he was shooting at f/0.95 with no filters, I have no idea how the entire film isn’t overexposed by like 10 stops. Unless he was using an ISO of, like, eight or some nonsense like that.

And they say “range anxiety” isn’t a thing with ICE cars. Why did everyone suddenly feel the pressing need to be able to drive 400 miles at a moment’s notice?

I’m surprised anyone is still talking about this after Leclerc wasn’t even able to start the race, and there are way better ways to take care of such situations than punishing drivers for, say, having a tire blowout or slipping on someone’s oil.

The tow truck lobby is probably in on the deal.

You know, I should start selling tire gauges that measure the partial pressure of Nitrogen in your tire. I could make a fortune.

I brought my Elise with me to Europe and alternated between 95 and 98. 95 was a around 90 US equivalent, and 98 was about 93. I never noticed any difference between the two, and they never seemed any different that US gas. If I was heading to a track (especially in summer), I got 98 just to help prevent knocking while…