I mean, come on, what proof do we have that this is really a beetle knockoff? It could be anything...

I'll second that. I wouldn't go there if, say, I had to earn a living with my tools, but I've had pretty good luck so far with tools from Harbor Freight.

I'd add a caveat to the tool thing. Nice tools are, well... nice, that is for sure, but when you need certain tools only very rarely, I feel that it is totally OK to cheap out sometimes. I once read on a Miata forum, in regards to cheap tools, specifically Harbor Freight and the like, a great way to look at it is you…

NA V12 -> Twin Turbo V12 -> Quad Turbo V12

I know what you mean about the steering, but you don't need to saw at it. Use smaller adjustments, find the center, and trust that the tiny adjustments you make after that will correct the course. It's nowhere as loose as it feels, it's just slower to change direction than anything with a rack and pinion and low…

Oh, and because the margins on enclosing a truck chassis and calling it an SUV were higher and people were convinced they needed to carry even more shit around. Its amazing how much stuff people carry now, as if you cant have two children without a small battle cruiser.

I fear they are on the way to out-veyron the Veyron.

Not necessarily straight, but relaxed. That means look far ahead so you can prepare to slow for a turn, or so you don't have to swerve or stop at the last second to avoid an obstacle in the road. Driving like that means the slow steering ratio doesn't matter. After all, it's not a sports sedan, and you shouldn't…

To be fair to other manufacturers, Pagani's only made basically two models.

I wish every manufacturer would do this, let you buy any old model you want, like new, for twice MSRP.

If I didn't know it was a Pagani Zonda, i'd think it was a mexican garage project built off of a Celica.

What will Pagani do next? The same thing they always do: continue to build Zondas for anyone willing to throw a big enough bag of money at them.

They're shit for autocross or jeep trails, they're perfectly good for anything else.

And? I honestly wish car companies would focus more on ride quality than on some false sense of road racing prowess that few cars have and even fewer cars are actually used for. Don't get me wrong, I don't miss the no-feel power steering that could be manipulated with a 3 year old's pinky, but the ride...yeah, bring…

Maybe you were driving it wrong. The old boat cruisers were not meant for doing anything quickly, but they could soak up any bump on the road.

Because they were shit?

I would expect nothing else was up to the task of hustling this 5000 lb behemoth

This was a car so audacious it dared to call itself the Master of the Road but in quick order it became the ride of choice for the Early Bird Special crowd, and the ride of you-have-no-choice for broke college kids who inherited them once the powers that be decided to finally take grandpa’s keys away the third time he…

Those roadmasters all look like their owners, straight down to the mustache.