1st Gear: As a massive Bond fan, I am done with Astons being shoe-wedged into Bond movies... However, I would love it if Bond returned to Lotus. Lotus will never have enough spare marketing change to match Aston Martin, though.

Are they losing power?

Can we talk about the Porsche-emblem tread on those tires, please?

Considering how many stories there are about this place; we can probably stop calling a “secret” vault.

I don’t like to use the word “hero” too often, but

I had a Performance level trim of this car (level right below the Rays wheels and Brembo brakes, but larger wheels than the base). I had to wait 3 months to get it and it was $31K or $32K. Nissan ran ads in Motor Trend, C&D, etc. to narc on dealerships that were charging over list.

Yeah, but how do you feel about the car???

There’s also a bit of M3 Single White Female going on here

endurance capabilities

100% agree with your NP assessment. Under $4,000 for (almost) any NPoCP car should be ok.

If you think the government is less likely to f#ck us over with control over our healthcare costs... you are sorely mistaken.

If health insurance weren’t through our employers, it would leave them with one less bargaining chip to f#ck us over with.

I mean, at least don’t have a 4.4 liter engine badged with what used to stand for a 5.4 liter engine.

It is a 6.6 liter engine. The 750 is a 4.4 liter engine. 740 is a 3.0 liter (unless it is the 740e, in which case it is a 2.0 liter engine).

This is actually what I was thinking of, but they don’t put the “xDrive” and “V12" badging right next to the “///M760Li”. It is supremely tacky that the V12 badge comes from the factory, though. I look at the 750iL e38 every now and then (all the time) on cars.com, etc., and so many people have put “V12" badges on…

Are you going to sit here and tell me that BMW has a series of letters and numbers that mean nothing?!

...until the numbers mean absolutely nothing. BMW, Ferrari...

I’m assuming the VIN generator was tampered with similar to this:

“You can pick up one of these for about $10,000.” - Doug DeMuro’s review of a ‘77 Caddy Eldo.