I didn’t know the layout of the track (was confused with Road Atlanta for a split sec), and goddamn you weren’t exaggerating. Now I wanna see onboard footage, cause that dude was moving

This is so fucking stupid. Consumers like familiarity. And the thing they are probably the most familiar with is the phones they stick to their faces 300 times a day and the operating systems they use. To instead make a whole new OS that is totally unfamiliar is ridiculous.

I don’t see myself even considering a vehicle that doesn’t have Android Auto compatibility.

The flip side is that these celebrities often get expanded access, free tickets, and other perks to show up to the race, with some minor expectation that they’ll be thrown in front of cameras and likely have a microphone shoved in their face and asked some questions. I agree they don’t have to give an interview; they…

Brundle was in the wrong, but that’s a wild amount of speculation and projection on your part.

Very much seconded - I had an ‘87 924S. Most miserable car to own out of the 50+ I have owned. If you really want one, you can’t make this one nice for what a nice one costs, and hold onto your wallet for the ongoing maintenance costs, even DIY. If you can’t DIY, just fugeddaboutit and buy a Miata or something instead.

It’s combined still with 3 electric motors. It’ll prob be around 1200hp from the V8 and an additional 1100 (idk how the whole total output works) from electric. 

Holy cow. The seller updated the ad with the salvage title notification AFTER I had posted the car. What a sneaky Pete.

I believe the ad indicates it comes with a “selvage” title in which case absolutely ND.

So no American or German, I assume for perceived reliability reasons, and the suggested cars are German (not necessarily unreliable but an 11 year old M car is for sure), British (actually bad reliability), and a car with terrible visibility when the top is up...

okay, so we know its just the GX now. boo.  All that side by side comparison does is highlight how little this will have in common with a 40 series.

May I say that Hyundai's Ioniq series are kick-ass? Hyundai took problematic concepts design-wise (no grille, different weight and chassis distribution) and came up with something futuristic and cool looking.

Agreed on the second paragraph, with the operating part being “relative to the era”. These handled better than most 80s cars and certainly weren’t slow in the era when a Mustang could barely muster 200hp if that, but they were pretty outclassed by just about everything that came out in the following decade.

I can attest to hearing similar stories of 924 issues related to wiring. I would argue that these aren’t difficult or complicated to work on. Quite the opposite from my experience.

However, I agree that performance is a mixed bag. These are quite nimble, and handle well relative to their contemporaries of their era.…

ND based on previous ownership of one of these. These are not fun to own - you have the parts cost of a vintage Porsche, they are arguably harder to work on than an old 911, but you get basically none of the performance. They also have a wiring harness that degrades over time, so these (and all pre-1985.5 944s with…

airbags never deployed, clean title.

Easy! This thing has a salvage title and the builder owned a body shop. I’m willing to bet that the total cost to buy and build the thing was a fraction of what an iQ cost back then. Even Smarts weren’t really cheap 11 years ago.

Having worked in the Vegetable Oil industry, I know that used vegetable oil is a hot commodity. As part of our companies system they would pickup and resell all the used oil and it mainly went to Bio-Diesel on an industrial scale. So unless you are getting used oil from your Brother-In-Laws Cajun chicken and wing…

For sure. And in some tacky enclaves of south Florida too. 

1000% disagree.