Cars can be middling investments, and occasionally you get dumb lucky. Lots more fun than a stack of stock certificates too. I figure my Spitfire has been about on-par with a mutual fund over the 25+ years I have had it, and it’s been a heck of a lot of fun.

What people pay for things, especially in a completely free market like BaT, is literally the absolute assessment of value. If someone pays what someone else asks, then the price makes sense. What we think is irrelevant.

Just for fun:

I can get personally not wanting a $110K DC2, but it seems kind of stupid to not understand why this DC2 is worth six figures to somebody. If you just want the driving experience you could literally buy a junk non Type R DC2, reinforce the shell and swap in all the requisite parts for a fraction of this. But obviously …

I’ve said this on here before but these low mile cars don’t get driven much not for the awful reasons we think. It usually because it’s from a collection. And by collection I mean some one with a ton of cars. If you have thirty cars it’s very hard to put a ton of miles on any of them. Also if you own thirty cars you…

The person shelling out 6 figures for a pristine Integra Type-R probably also has an S2000 or other sporty Honda. Even if they don’t, the only thing that matters is this ITR is very special to them, for whatever reason. There are very few people with that kind of money and a taste for rare factory specials.

Good luck finding a pre-1999 Celica GT-S in good condition, they were never considered as desirable as the Integra and most have not been maintained well. That said, I have a soft spot for the T200 (1994-1999) so I get excited whenever I see one in the wild.

Here you go Acura, this is the one people want. It has 2 doors, 4 little headlights, is small, low, is recognizable as a Honda but not 100% the same, and looks fun even while parked.

No an application fee (Starlink has had 6 applications to the FCC) the license lasts 15 years.

Honestly, if Starlink really wants to fuck governments over, they could open source their antenna designs and just charge a subscription fee (maybe in crypto?) to connect.

What’s the ‘Fair Cut’ when the country has failed in getting low cost, high speed Internet to Rural areas that doesn’t use any local infrastructure beyond electricity, and that electricity might well be from Solar and not the National grid?

Except Starlink is not operating in India yet. They're taking pre-orders and that's what the government of India doesn't want. 

Is there a yearly fee paid for FCC approval?

Someone want some kickbacks. India is very corrupted.

India is a country run by idiot bureaucrats. There are some states in India that require a license for a fax-machine. The entire country is a cesspit and the amount of garbage 

I’m sure there will be bribes, but if you think the Indian government (or any government) doesn’t fear an Internet they can’t control, you’re mistaken.

India doesn’t care about the filtering or even the taxes, they want constant bribe money. It’s how you do business there.

Agreed,

Mark my words, this will not be the last of this kind of nonsense.  There’s a lot of countries in this world that do not want their citizenry to have unfettered access to the internet.  If they can’t filter it and tax it, the citizens don’t deserve it.  Just watch.

he was told that his kei cars are unsafe