The Evo 6 TM is surely going to end up being the most expensive one once more of them show up, likely the first Evo to hit 6-figures for a regular example that wasn’t in a movie or owned by a celebrity or something. One of the high-end importers had one for sale for like 70k or so earlier this year, and I imagine…

I don’t really know what to tell you except that I see three in different colors driving around regularly and assume they live nearby. I do live in an expensive area where exotic cars are common.

There are three XMs in my neighborhood. I agree it wasn’t nearly as popular as they expected (resale values and dealer incentives prove you are right), but they are selling and they are going to the intended audience.

It’s been driven regularly and maintained well, NP despite the mileage. This car is 15 years old, it’s hitting the point where an ultra low mileage one is likely more of a risk.

People with Radicals and Ariels often also have a GT3 or similar vehicle. Typically the average Radical owner keeps it parked at Autobahn or another country club track where they have a membership, then they drive their supercar around as a street car.

You’re spot-on. GM and Ford have historically been known for really spending the money on engine development, whereas Dodge has seemed to be complacent trucking along with the one they already had with minimal development. By all measures, the GM and Ford 4 and 6-cylinder engines seem to also be pretty good, where as…

Very cool, looking forward to buying one 2 years from now for a 70% discount off MSRP if this depreciates the same as other EVs

It’ll never happen. Too many companies profit tremendously off people being ignorant, and tons of lobbying happens by those companies to make sure it stays that way. 

Honestly it’s not a bad sales strategy, although it’s incredibly sleazy (what used car salesman isn’t?). Giving advice that seems honest is probably effective at getting naive people to trust you, and therefore trust that when you sell them a car, they are getting a fair deal and being taken care of.

Jaguar, Maserati, and Alfa are the three brands that never had a shortage of  cars on the lot even during peak pandemic. There was an Alfa dealer near my old house that had a perpetually well-stocked lot, and I bet you could walk in there and haggle your way down to a cheap lease deal on a Giulia any day of the week.

Not true at all. You see these regularly deep into the 200k range. The maintenance is not mild on these, but if you keep up with it they run for quite a long time. Maintenance records are way more important than mileage on a car of this age.

That’s true, but anyone who is seriously looking to get into an E39 M5 is aware of this already. That’s also why these aren’t more expensive - nice ones command a huge premium over this, but the driver-quality ones are held back by perceived reliability.

The market agrees - they’ve held their value dramatically better than a regular Murano

I like how he slyly called the GLE53 coupe ugly. There were a couple of those in my old neighborhood and they are absolutely hideous. 

Took a bit to find it and I had it wrong, it was a Peterson Museum video and not Hagerty - my mistake. Video is here. I don’t remember exactly when he says it, but he talks about one car he owns and says he bought it “accidentally” while bidding up a friend’s auction to drive up the sale price

Took some digging to find, I had it wrong and it was Petersen and not Hagerty. I don’t want to re-watch 45min and try to find the exact turning point, but he talks about one car he owns and says he got it accidentally while bidding up the price on his friend’s auction

Probably not a frunk - automakers quickly realized that no one was actually using the frunk in cars that had one. No use in packaging things around an empty space and paying for extra trim pieces when you can avoid that altogether.

These are very obviously renders from the same set. There are no photos of an “actual” concept car here. 

10 seconds on marketplace and I found three of them for under $4k, and I know a friend selling his late father’s old V12 XJS for $3k. All running and driving. People ask more, but even the most pristine one out there barely breaks 5 figures.

It’s happened on BaT before with several other cars. Most often, a friend of the seller will bid up the price and either let someone take it for an artificially inflated amount, or the seller’s friend takes it and then resells later to a “real” bidder at another time. People very quickly noticed that one high sale on…