Um, there’s one other group...

Agreed. Or maybe we can do half-generations like the Audi scene does.

3.2 Carrera; I inherited it from my late father who picked it up for about $8k in the early ‘00s. Granted it needed a few thousand put into it at that time, but looking back, what a bargain...

IMS is overblown (also cheap to proactively fix), and the headlights objectively look great if you get the mostly-clear versions. Not the best looking 911, to be sure, but as cars go they’re great looking. Drive one, you’ll love it.

Your overall point is completely valid, but for this car specifically I think the appreciation is genuine. It’s a desirable enthusiast car in a nice spec, and good ones just aren’t that common anymore.

Agreed, all that picture did was make me want to move to Lithuania.

I, for one, have been enjoying my new 5G connectivity since getting the vaccine over a week ago. Blazing fast speeds everywhere!

Wait until you see a Cullinan. There are quite a few where I live in the tri-state area and they utterly dwarf everything around them.

I mean, it does contain a model of a moon. Were you expecting an actual planetary body inside a watch? And 12mm is large by watch standards; the case thickness of a 5-digit Rolex Submariner is 12mm in total.

In 2001 my dad bought a manual 924S (which had the 944 engine) with around 100k miles for $3500. The times have indeed changed.

And, the resolutions are different (at least in the Q50 I drove once) between the screens so the thing looks like a hackjob. Do it properly like Audi does and multiple screens is fine.

You totally can... I can buy a new Audi, paint it and lower it, and resell it as a custom Audi. Doesn’t mean Audi has anything to do it. It’s still an Audi underneath, but it’s my version of an Audi.

I bought a clean one with 60k miles on it for $3,500 in 2015. Flipped it a few months later for $4k after enjoying it for the summer. I can’t imagine what it’d be worth today, but it’s looking like 5 figures isn’t out of the question.

Hamilton doesn’t have to push his car as often because he’s more experienced and better-able to use it to capacity without pushing. It’s one of the reasons he’s so good on tires, and so incredible in the rain. His understanding of the car is truly next-level compared to the rest of the field.

Everyone, on balance, but especially poor people.

This was my thought as well... don’t give me some austere interior that looks like an Apple Store designer’s wet dream, if I’m not meant to drive the car give me a comfortable place with like a couch, a TV, and a bar or something.

Totally true. With (new, not vintage) watches, once you get over ~$100k they’re generally either very classy and understated like high-end Patek Philippe models, or they look like they came from Toys-R-Us (Richard Mille, MB&F, etc.)

I’d go so far as to say they might even make more money doing that, if they did a less-limited run. I bet they could find enough nerds to buy 1500 of these at $10k.

The EBDBBNB could also add to his portfolio of hotels. Yet another potential value-add here.

“Are credit challenged folks getting effed that bad to bring the average to $8.43%?”