There might be more than you think. Articles about new versions of “regular” cars get a lot of traction here for people who want genuine consumer advice. I own a newer GX460 and was pretty cued-in on all the articles about the GX550 as I was genuinely interested in buying one.

Market saturation is a key part of it here. In that era, the Countach, Testarossa, and 959 were basically the only ones in actual production that people knew about, plus oddball low-production ones like the V16T. McLaren by itself makes more hypercars than the entire market did then - it’s just hard to care when there…

Another unusably fast, unobtainably expensive supercar that will almost exclusively be purchased by middle eastern oil barons and stored indefinitely with delivery miles in a sealed warehouse. The writeup/article is good and I don’t want to discount that, but man it is hard to care about new releases like this.

Lizardman constant applies here

I am way more interested in that team who took a viper ACR there a while back to try and set a record. Cars like this one and the Valkyrie are so preposterous and purpose-built that they might as well be in their own category separate from other road cars.

This is huge, it’s like comparing a normal Eurovan to one of the camper ones. People who are into this kind of thing are REALLY into the special camper versions, not as much with the normal ones.

I can’t believe you can lease an Ariya for $199/mo. All jokes aside about Nissans being crappy, it is a competent new EV with decent range for less than my parents pay for cable and internet every month.

Not true of EVs anymore, there are tons of videos of them doing back-to-back passes with no issues. ICE cars also aren’t flawless and will get hot with repeated passes.

I was about to comment on how impressively not-gaudy this is. Normally when you think of custom commissions like this, it’s some awful purple over gold or something ostentatious like that. This is actually really cool and pretty subtle.

It seems like this is exactly what the 911 S/T would be for. Maybe the owner had an allocation for a 3RS but not an S/T and wanted to meet in the middle

NP because this is about as nice as you could reasonably expect to find one of these outside of some hyper-expensive BaT museum piece. These are neat cars, though if I was going to buy one I’d look for one with a K swap already done and all the electronics updated. I owned one 80s car with bad electrics already; I…

It doesn’t matter if they are or not - the early long-term magazine tests on the new giulia were enough to doom their reputation for a second time. They could be as reliable as a civic and it would make no difference because the general public perceives them as being unreliable.

Their reputation is now more similar to Maserati, in the sense that it’s a somewhat exotic-ish sounding car that you can get for a screaming deal on a lease because they depreciate fast and are unreliable. Alfa had a strong first punch when they came back with the 4C, but it’s been all downhill from there.

This is basically what the ID Buzz was supposed to be, except it seems like they set the specs for it in 2019 and never updated it to be competitive with the market today. It’s a fun, stylish EV minivan that offers AWD and is debatably the only universally “cool” minivan out there, just the range and power figures are…

I had the exact same thought. These don’t have any kind of sentimental or nostalgic value for me, so if I did want a relatively low-powered, analog roadster, I would just get a Miata. If I wanted an old British analog sporty car, I would find a Lotus Europa and plan on it needing tons of maintenance. This era of…

Why are they all such babies? This is like when they complained about the theatrics in the driver intros at Miami. They are being paid an absolute fortune to drive these cars, and the popularity/revenue of the sport (which is responsible for their high salaries in the first place) has led to them also effectively…

$68k for a drag car with no engine is insane, especially for one based on a production street car. I’m not a drag racing expert by any means, but isn’t the engine and powertrain like 90% of the cost of most drag cars?

I would bet they considered it at one point, but the logistics involved in creating a new brand is a pretty steep order for a product line that is likely to lose a ton of money. It’s the same reason they sell the hummer EV as a GMC instead of its own brand.

That’s some interesting insight. I wonder if the C8 will eventually be overtaken in value like the C7, kind of like what we’ve seen with various generations of 911. Being the last “real Corvette” with a manual could play a factor at some point.

The last ones to sell for this kind of money were in 2022 in peak market, though they were admittedly in similar condition. I think there’s a time when the owner could have gotten $28k but those days are behind us.