I did it to a Beretta 3.1 - band clamped the sucker on after a hacksaw job - it was as awful as it sounds (sounded atrocious is under-describing the horribleness of that horrible idea)

“...Surely there has to be a family that could adopt these wayward youths, that didn’t involve looking like a bear trying to fuck a Big Wheel...”

more the issue of media agenda than actual ‘news’ if you ask me. media likes reporting clickbait drama - even if they have to rake the muck or make it up

You lost me at ‘dragged raced’...twice....but I have a new respect for a guy I have, until now, figured for an epic douche, so all is not lost.

Gal needs an Uber app - you can take a LOT of Uber rides for $25K

notably rarer = pain in the ass to maintain/repair/modify/ in my book. The very opposite of a P71 - and my only interest in something like this would be as an Uber car, for racking up miles, heavy wear, and withstanding the crap road conditions of Chicagoland -

uber and lyft are both legal and licensed, dude

All day long at $5K - but not a dime over $6K - this from a guy who drives a 2009 P71

Where do you drive, and on what level of service for which platform? In Chicago, our GROSS fare is $.90 a mile and $.20/min loaded for sedan service (uberX or Lyft). Could never crack a dollar an odometer mile when the fare starts under a dollar before the TNP cut.

my Lincoln Town car has a 4.6l V8 - and is probably what you’d call a gas guzzler - 19mpg vs the 35+ you can get in a Prius or other shitbox. A typical Saturday night Ubering for me is 300 miles in 10 hours, earning ~$175 in fares and another 20 in tips. My gas cost (at 2.25/gal) is about 30 bucks, and would be half…

for the love of pete, what DOES it take to get out of the grey?....smh

a perfect uber car - you’re doing it right

probably a loss after factoring depreciation

so do I

no, they are not. I Uber in a 2009 P71 Vic in Chicago all the time.

Here’s my last week’s earnings statement - 12 rides and uber took $36.48 of the fare. What you DON’T see here is that there’s also a “booking fee” of $1.20 per ride charged to the rider and collected by Uber - that fee can range between $1 and $3 depending on location. So Uber had marginal revenue of roughly $4 per…

Driver incentives are a mere tiny fraction of what they once were - and a mere tiny fraction of what comprises their losses. Their losses are driven by marketing spend (substantially new rider acquisition promos), and the non-driver labor (burden overhead). They have layers upon layers of people in “corporate”…

chicago - 02 for 2016, will be 03 shortly

you’d get killed (and eventually deactivated) on passenger ratings driving that - those things are way too small and harsh, not to mention fragile, for taxi service

you’re missing the point that ubering is a business for entrepreneurs, and the car is a tool of that trade.