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Great choice. It still looks modern today, and is just more elegant (and has much better visibility) than newer Audis. The previous generation 200 Avant Quattro was pretty great in its time, too.

I had a friend with an 850 Turbo wagon. Such a great car, and it was flawlessly reliable for the 150,000 kms he had it for, with the only major issue being the climate control going haywire. Even it felt pretty fast and agile for such a practical car, so the R would I’m sure have been fantastic.

I was lucky enough to get a 2008 R8 press car for two days shortly after it was launched in Canada. Somehow people don’t really seem to care about or even notice the R8 these days, but at the time it was an amazing drive and an absolute showstopper in terms of the number of people who wanted to stop and look at it, or…

Base 911s are very difficult to find in general, since Porsche prioritized building more expensive models when they were facing supply chain challenges and enjoying the high demand of the last few years. I would go for a T rather than a base anyway, since then you can get the base engine with manual, torque vectoring,…

Not surprising at all. Take a base 911 and add metallic paint, the Carrera S wheels, sport chrono and sport exhaust, premium package, 14-way seats, leather interior and a sunroof, not exactly an excessive build, and you’ve added over $23k in options, or over 20% of MSRP.

Do you think the buyers who have been purchasing Teslas, Polestars, Taycans, Rivians and Lucids even remember Lincoln exists? The ability to draw in an audience really matters, and I just don’t see that happening with the Lincoln brand (literally the only people I know who’ve bought a new Lincoln recently are the…

For daily drivers where you don’t care about character, engine sound, exhaust note, etc., it really is hard to go back to an ICE vehicle once you’re used to driving EVs. When I had a PHEV (Volvo XC90), I just found myself wishing it could drive in EV mode at all times, and other than a failed experiment with a…

That’s crazy, it was August, 2008 when I was there. Amazing spot.

Sorry I missed this one. I would have included an obscure one - the drive from Ullapool in NW Scotland to East Rhidorroch Lodge, which is mostly a narrow single track, unlit and pretty loosely packed road, and on one side has areas with a steep drop into a river valley. It’s a spectacular setting during the day, but I…

I’m not sure that Rolls Royces are old money cars any more. The true old money car, according to Top Gear, is the Subaru, since they were originally sold at farm machinery dealers in the UK, minimizing the chances of bumping into the general public when car shopping.

In Canada we did not get the RWD E91, but I agree that probably would have been much better.

Too expensive, particularly with that rust, which as others have commented suggests some kind of past accident damage to that area of the car. Also, these cars are just not that great. I had a 2010 manual E91 xdrive. Yes, there is a novelty in having a manual BMW wagon, given how rare they are in North America, but…

Porsche probably does over-engineer everything, but it doesn’t mean they don’t have reliability / durability issues. This generation of engine is known for the IMS bearing issue (although apparently a failure is actually pretty rare) and bore scoring issues. With a car that has been modified and potentially driven…

It also can’t be considered to be that nice either. I’m sure the engine sounds great, but what other qualities does it really have? An ancient interior with I’m sure the same squishy, unsupportive seats that are in your average rental 300? Isn’t the chassis essentially that of a 1990s E-Class? Low rent dealer network?

Ferrari 612 Scaglietti. It got lots of flak when new for being ugly relative to the 456 it replaced, but I still love the idea of four-seat Ferraris with v12 and manual option, and this is the most modern iteration of that concept you can get.

Yea, I guess they want to avoid blowback from people who just bought an S or X.

There will probably be a future option to unlock more range for $$$. I think the short-lived 40 Model S was like this - identical to the 60 and could be turned into a 60 with a software update. Sound like a way of clearing out inventory at a lower price without the appearance of price slashing the existing models.

I’ve just experienced this in a non-Tesla EV. Yesterday I did quite a bit of highway driving in my Ioniq. At higher speeds, the remaining range readout would often drop by 2 km or even more for every km driven. Today I’ve been driving around town with the climate control off, seeing the range drop as little as 1 km…

Well perhaps you don’t understand how “investment costs” work, since your argument does not make sense. At this stage in its production volume, Tesla had positive gross margins (in excess of what many mature car companies have today). Gross margins are not affected by the costs of plant and property, except to the…