You can get a better one for the same or less money. This one sold last year with fewer miles, no wash title issues, and no mods for the same money. Plus it’s the more desirable 3.2L/6-speed car.

If you have the money to buy this and you want one so badly, keep saving your pennies until you can buy one that’s less of a crapshoot. ND.

Age + Miles + Sketchy Title + Price =  NFD

ND on the title issues. You don’t want to come home and find the police have the car. CP on the miles. 

They may have alternated in-office days so that situations like this didn’t occur.

He made it gold, dude wants to crow over the plebs. He just didn’t count on there being so many of them.

I dunno man, at this point getting the official Tesla attention machine is a pretty tacit endorsement of Musk and his attitudes. He wrapped it in gold. He clearly wants the attention, but he thought it was going to be of the positive ilk. Turns out he was wrong.

Ahhhh yes, buying one of the ugliest and most obnoxious cars, wrapping it in the most obnoxious color possible, then putting a FAT QR code on the back doesn’t make him a huge attention seeker. He’s just upset about the type of attention he’s getting lol suck it up buttercup. Actions and decisions have consequences.…

It absolutely should bother you that much. You absolutely have a right to feel embarrassed and betrayed by Tesla for keeping Musk around after all his crazy bullshit.

“law enforcement wants to remind people their cars are clearly marked as law enforcement vehicles.”

I know it shouldn’t bother me this much, but it does—I’m genuinely embarrassed to drive a Tesla because of Musk. I can’t wait to sell this car. I’m sure Farley or Toyoda might be P’sOS too, but at least they don’t constantly and loudly remind me of it.

Wake me up when I can get one at $750 per month and $0 down ...

The drivetrain is shared with just about every Volvo built in the last decade.

I think that the Smyth doing these was one of the brothers that started Factory Five Racing that does the Cobra replicas among other things.

I’m not a fan of the new Prius, and absolutely no Teslas

Am I the only one to notice that this request was several years old?

100% unique - it’s the only car that got that transmission in that setup. I believe at the time Getrag/Ford thought it would be adapted to the Mazda3/etc in the future, but things didn’t work out that way. The linkages are plastic and exposed somewhat, and get brittle with time (and then snap). It’s also, IIRC,…

FWIW, this is a ticking time bomb - there are several wear items that have no equivalent replacement and have been unavailable for 5-10+ years, including the shift cable linkages and the intake solenoid.  

ND. Car is currently unmaintainable - the shift linkages (cables and mounts) are unique to the SVT and haven’t been available in years, and the solenoid for the dual runner intake is also unavailable and has been for a decade.  Both are considered standard wear items - car is undrivable as they wear out.