I don’t know any reason dealers in Canada would be very different overall from the US but I’ve found no real consistency in experience with any brand. The best dealer I’ve worked with is a Honda-Nissan shop. For both sales and service they’ve been outstanding which is why I’ve now owned three cars through them. My…

On the other hand, I do give them some credit for going with the melted-bar-of-soap exterior lines instead of making a mass of hard intersecting lines as seems to be the fashion these days. Toning down the brightwork that runs along the bottom of the front end below the headlights and grille would make it look better…

Looking at the lack of wear on that interior I can only conclude that the previous owners were ghosts.

The interior looks like the result of a 50mph head on collision between Donald Trump’s living room and an Apple store.

Pretty much. Boeing spent around $7 billion developing the 777 - that’s in 1995 dollars, so equivalent to about $12 billion today according to the BLS. From 2013 to 2019 Boeing spent over $40 billion on share buybacks.

I’ll sleighride right over those cobblestones!

In Canada Tesla offers a $44,999 Model 3 Standard Range. The only place you can find it mentioned is by going to the “Electric Vehicle Incentives” page, scrolling down to the bottom and looking at the fine print that comes after the “Federal definition of MSRP” footnote. It’s listed there with order “in store” next to…

I was thinking; “If only this had taken place in Nantucket...”

Thanks! That’s the sort of thing I was looking for

Thanks for the link to that Oppo article on the 126 - great reading! Is there any company that finds, PPI’s and does the paperwork to have a car like this located and exported to Canada, or are you looking to do all the work yourself? I too have an inexplicable fondness for “Minimal Motocars” (as I recall Warren Weith…

Sadly, I am one of the reasons for that - I crashed my 1990 RZ back in 1993. Bought it new, crashed the poor thing into a ditch and destroyed it.

I’m using the stock of N95 masks I have in rotation as well. I had an entire box of them (and a box of exhalation-valved P100's) before this all started for dusty work like sanding and grinding. The surgical type or cloth masks just don’t feel right after years in the paint business and having to wear N95/P-100's or…

That’s how the predecessor to the VW Transporter was arranged. The plattenwagen:

Something I wonder about regarding trailers: a lot of cars, CUVs and crossovers on sale in the North American market come with a manufacturer’s statement (on the website and in the owner’s manual) along the lines of “towing not recommended” or “your X is not designed for towing a trailer” or even more discouraging…

The front view reminds me of the Zundapp Janus:

“The weirdest thing is it doesn’t have a gas gauge” Motorcycles have gas gauges now? Damn I feel old... I can’t remember ever seeing a gas gauge on the bikes I’ve ridden. I remember fumbling to find the tank valve on my RZ-350 to switch to reserve the first time I ran the tank that low. Heck, some of the cars I’ve…

I took the BCIT AME-M in Vancouver - learned a lot but it cost quite a bit (and as a tuition freeze had ended when I started it got more expensive with each term) and it was an eight hour per day, five day per week. sixteen month program so it took a lot out of me. As I said the big problem I had with it is that it…

I actually like the new NSX and I know this one has some pricey options added... but right now where I live (Canada) the NSX base MSRP equals about $142,000 U.S. Checking all the most expensive options I could find on the build and price got me to $177,000 U.S. This car would be a bit too expensive for me - if I even…

No one is ever going to top the US governments cash-wrapping-and -shipping achievements. Remember the pallets of cash shipped to Iraq?

Well, right now there’s an F-4 Phantom for sale on Trade-A-Plane for about the same as he paid for the Bugatti: