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I wouldn’t say it was great, just fun despite it's flaws. I remember peeling paint, blown head gaskets, and a interior that fell apart.

I freaking love Naomie Harris and now desperately want to see her in an action/spy thriller.

If the front and rear are one piece clamshells, why do they have the panel line like a traditional bumper cover?

That is a perfectly fair point. I’d say it’s safe to assume the demand for safety equipment comes from advertising telling people how much they need these things. There are certain brands that make it a part of their identity, Volvo for example.

My catalytic converter just disintegrated and shot out in chunks all over the garage. It only has a few thousand miles on this exhaust.

That is all a great observation, and when I say it is DMC getting good press I don’t mean that in a cynical way. I honestly want the company to do well as it is ultimately better for us owners. All I really want is to be able to enjoy my car and know I’ll be able to replace aging components.

You are probably quite correct. So far I’ve enjoyed being able to use the car a lot with the security that anything I could need or some jackass could break would be easily available. I know that will have to end someday but maybe not in my lifetime.

I suppose what I’m most worried about is DMC eventually trying to make as much money as possible by ensuring all available parts are sold off. Not that I’d blame them, it is a business after all and hoarding inventory for a the benefit of a few doesn’t make any sense.

All I want to know about is body panels. As I understand it, there aren’t 300 driver’s side fenders left so they are going to have to invest a ton of money in tooling. This is either really bad for my car (by using up parts) or really good if newly made panels are produced again.

I learned from my favorite childhood show that a helicopter is the answer to all of life’s

The car is a joy to drive, people just need to quit comparing it to modern sports cars.

I've been driving mine a lot lately and I still get excited after fourteen years of ownership.

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't see a roll cage in the cars driven in the race footage. Did the series not require them?

This looks remarkably well put together considering it's a test mule. They must have been proud of this one at the factory. Most test mules are scrapped, how did this one end up sold?

I owned a 2000 2.5RS for a couple years and hated that hood scoop. I got asked so many times what the hood scoop was for and had to explain it's the same hood used on a WRX variant in other markets and they just kept it because it looks aggressive yet does nothing. I wish they had just used a smooth hood.

How did it end up on the roof? Armored trucks are really freaking tall, you'd have fling it up there for some reason.

We've heard on here before how Ferrari has had a "right of first refusal" contract to prevent someone from flipping their in demand model in the first year or two for massive profit. If that is or was ever a Ferrari policy, is all that extra deposit profit going directly to the dealer then?

When I get gas in the DeLorean the attendants are usually so baffled about where the gas goes that they just hand me the pump handle and let me do it. Motorcycles are also self-fill provided they hand it to you it seems.

Now I really want someone to make a post-apocalyptic Leaf with off-road tires and a hastily welded tube frame exoskeleton.

I'm pretty certain that this isn't the first commercially available shotgun suppressor. There has been a British company making them for years, even on double barrel over/under sporting guns. Look up "Hushpower" shotguns, they have "moderators" for .410 up to 12 gauge.