You assume that the guy they are trying to sell it to has made up his mind.

Not necessarily.

I’m not claiming that all the sportiness comes from the manual per se, but that it comes from how much skill and effort is necessary to get the performance you seek. Driving at the ragged edge of performance is pretty sporting even with an automatic...but it’s even moreso if you succeed at it with the overhead of…

Not necessarily.

It doesn’t.

Being able to go around a corner isn’t what makes the GT350 sportier. Requiring more driver involvement, and thus being harder to get the most out of, is what makes it sportier.

My statement is a practical one.

1990 ZR-1s were selling for $100,000 in late 1989 through 1990.

Exactly. There is an ass-ton of fuck-you money around here, this car barely warrants a second glance.

It’s probably already been promised to a VIP buyer and the price here is to make it unobtainable until that buyer can pick it up.

Koons is mega-huge and has some high-rolling regular customers that know the owning family and get special treatment. You might be right about the “I don’t want to sell it” price, but I doubt it’s because the owner wants to keep it in the showroom. More likely they already have a VIP buyer lined up and this price is…

McLean, VA, is like a miniaturized version of LA except filled with self-important government workers and subcontractors instead of creative elites. There is no shortage of vehicles that would outshine this.

The GT500 is a faster car. The GT350 is a sportier car.

Do you regularly take pictures of the window sticker with all the options? I find that to be one of the most helpful things that most listings don’t do. I’ve been browsing used and new MY20 Volvo S60 inventory looking for cars with the Sports Chassis and the B&W sound system, and there are a few possible contenders…

They do, actually, but it’s usually just as a front to lend some air of credibility for dealerships that primarily peddle used inventory to bad credit buyers. At least, that’s definitely the case in northern VA.

The vast majority of people will not tolerate waiting months to get a car.

And there are a shit-load of rules on cashing in on those credits when you get your tax return that say...you may not get the whole credit.

Although this is a year late and probably no longer relevant to you, the Volvo S60/V60 is mediocre as a sports sedan. I have experience with the S60 T6 R-Design, standard dampers (as opposed to the Sports Chassis), no Polestar Optimization tune.

The problem in the US is that everybody wants more services AND lower taxes.

New inventory is not only low, a lot of the incoming MY21 stuff seems to have quirks I’d rather it didn’t. Audi’s introducing piecemeal parts that don’t mesh together visually and their cars are feeling older than they are, BMW is ugly as sin, Volvo has this fetish for sucking the fun out of their products in every…