I like the idea of calling a car a reliability nightmare relative to an Evo

The Drive is better on ads has a super toxic comment section for some reason. It is all weird boomer trump supporters. I stopped visiting for that reason - the comments are half the fun.

If you enjoyed driving it, I don’t want to take that away from you, but I found it to be the worst handling car of the dozens I have driven on track. Mine was also pretty extensively modified to be better and was on slicks - I have driven stock 944s of the period and they’re even worse.

“More power per liter than a GT3RS”

ND because the driving/ownership experience on these is not worth that much. I owned one of these that was set up as an SP1-spec car, and the only thing it ever did well was look cool in my garage. They are slow, they don’t handle great, they don’t sound good, and they have a litany of bad engineering decisions that…

If you ended up totaling it, you can rest in peace knowing that it is now either a street takeover burnout car, or a coal rolling drag BMW. There is no other option for a salvage 6cyl diesel BMW in the afterlife.

Funny enough I actually encouraged him to put it on BaT a number of times. He believes the turbo kit is a period Dinan piece but can’t confirm it. His is an E24 633, I think it’s a 1983?

The XLR was outrageous when new but is pretty close to normal now for any luxury car. Headlights on my 2018 GX are something like $1100 each, but the 2020+ facelift cars are like $2600 per headlight to replace. And that’s on a Toyota product.

These cars do not hold value because they are very difficult to own. They didn’t make very many - good luck finding replacement trim pieces and other parts that weren’t shared with other BMWs.

That is hilarious. How on earth does Stellantis keep fumbling the bag this badly

I’m not so sure I can tell, I see a mix of them with and without the gaudy chrome trim but it’s hard to distinguish otherwise.

Easy NP - clean Avalanches are worth money now and this is a desirable variant of that.

Agreed haha, the chrome trim on those things looks absolutely horrible. It’s like the last step of the assembly line is a trip through the autozone accessories section

I’m surprised the Wagoneer isn’t selling more by the numbers. I see those things on the road all the time.

People pay more for this for Samurais in worse shape. NP

I don’t believe any of this is real - the car there is probably a fiberglass development mule with a small electric motor from a golf cart.

Two things happening here. First is that the C8 was artificially blocked from depreciating due to supply chain constraints. It probably would have been similar-ish to the C7 in absence of that.

Whoever makes the first plug-in hybrid variant will get my money, as that’s really the one thing I wish my GX did. The old 5.7 is actually not as trouble-free as you’d think too - those engines are surprisingly maintenance-intensive. The 4.6 in my GX is a variant of the motor they put in the LS/GS and is the more “set…

I initially planned on the land cruiser before the GX but decided against it for a few reasons, biggest of which is that the 3rd row doesn’t fold flat and robs cargo space.

Google says 8800 sales total for 2024 as of July, including both the BRZ and GR86 in there, which is not great. Plus that car was co-developed by two companies to save money on R&D and make it viable. There’s also a question of how big the market is for cars like that (when purchased new), and if there’s room for…