Okay, they have exactly 1 at $9,900. So, okay, you win, but that certainly isn’t the $7k you said.

I’ll definately grant you that, its really a cool engine. I would love to see that thing in a Fiata/Elise/Atom/Etc. Its such a good engine wasted on a company that doesn’t make any light cars. Hell, I would love to see it in the GT. It would make an awesome base engine in that car.

I can’t find anyone in the US selling one for less than $10k.

Have you driven a CLA45? From a technology standpoint, its impressive how much power they squeeze out of the thimble-sized engine, but beyond that, it pretty much sucks. The handling is just adequate, the interior is junk and the rear seats are near-useless. Of all of the hot-hatches/tarted-up compacts its literally…

“Character” is great and all, but I would rather see this on the road than in a pool of oil in the garage. LS1 is okay by me.

I just got back from the NIO House at SXSW where this is being held. If you are in Austin right now, its defintately worth a visit. The place is filled with their designers, automation engineers, materials people, etc. They are all eager to talk so it was pretty interesting. Every element of these cars has been…

For when you want your car to look like a bass-boat, but you also want people to know you are very rich.

Trading in a car at a dealership is stupid. As to the rest of your points, lighten the hell up. It was a joke. [But BMW X series are ugly, slow [M aside], handle badly, wildly overpriced and have terrible use of space. I don’t know why anyone buys one.]

That looks like a Chinese car designed and built by a company that normally makes cieling fans.

I simply don’t understand how they expect to sell this car in the US. They have no dealer presence. The name means nothing except to hard-core car nuts. It isn’t as pretty as the 4c. The performance isn’t likely to exceed its peers in any meaningful way. So we have a mediocre looking, expensive, unreliable (its a…

1) No one who buys an X series is reading this site.

You request vacation a year in advance? What do you do, run a Signals Station?

My father just did this, although his wasn’t a stripper. Just none of the “stupid” options. Still saved a couple of K over dealer and got a vacation out of the deal. Not sure why this isn’t more common.

You will have to forever live with the “Nice Corvette, man” comments, though.

You know they did a JPS edition, right?

I approve of this message. [Though, my point was actually that the 996 is a lot easier to love when you have compared both. You get over the headlights pretty quick.]

As a current 996 and past 930 owner, not sure I agree here. Don’t get me wrong, I like 930 but the 996 is SO much more usable, reliable (IMS issues included) and fun. Its the difference between a classic car and a modern. The classic will always be cooler, but the modern one is objectively better. 

But, this guy got a tech inspection and this still happened.

They don’t open or start them on-site. They use “wheel lifts” sometimes on tow-trucks and sometimes not. They then drive them somewhere safer and secure them on a better transport vehicle. The owners of the car (the bank, payday loan, whater) has the title and can get a new key produced.

Seriously. Especially given the rain, those roads get sandy. Had a friend roll their cars near there.