Meh. People know what they’re signing up for here. Or at least they should. If they were striking and killing bystanders it would be a different story.

A contrarian thought: we can all yell what what we think is overpriced (I can name quite a few...), but technically the only “overpriced” vehicles are those priced too high to sell at the volumes the manufacturer wants. A $4 million Chiron Pur Sport isn’t overpriced if they’re all sold out...

This is the correct answer in 2021, though in a certain sense I get it with new cars being so scarce.

I actually don’t have a problem with all the extra charges for trim bits, paint, etc. Were I ordering a new Ferrari or top-end Porsche I’d spec the hell out of it too. It’s more the convenience options that irk me.

*Didn’t quite work out sales-wise, but no one who drove the FF was complaining. GTC4 fixed whatever flaws the FF had. I’d actually love a Lusso as a DD were I not a working stiff...

Much as I love driving some of them, the options pricing on high-end European cars has reached comedic levels. See: Ferrari charging almost $4k for Apple CarPlay, Porsche’s $600 leather air vents, Germans charging premiums for items that are standard in a midsize Hyundai, etc.

Did one of those hourly exotic rentals last time I was in Paris. Navigating Parisian in traffic in a Lambo was....interesting, especially since lanes seem to be more like general suggestions there.

This. Ferrari is not going to accept being mid-pack long term, nor will its fans. Compromising a chance to reset its performance under the new rules doesn’t make sense when catching Merc or Red Bull isn’t realistic this year.

All good points; F1's cost structure is a significant issue in and of itself. I suspect we’ll always have some major disparities so long as teams are required to construct their own cars from scratch (a huge factor in F1's costs) - but IMHO going to a cheaper, more spec-oriented format a la Indycar would take away so…

As much as I love F1...they and the FIA show the same stupidity Big Government does: endless, complicated regulations that have no hope of accomplishing what they want, because they ignore some basic principles:

Doubt it. Every gun owner with half a brain (which, contrary to the beliefs of lefties on the interwebz, is most of them) knows that illegally modifying weapons to make them full-auto is among the easiest ways to get busted by the ATF. And most of them (I’ve been an NRA member for 10+ years and am active in a local…

Assuming this is for LOL’s...but if serious, Texans are subject to the same federal firearm laws as Californians or New Yorkers. The laws these stooges broke were Federal ones.

Unlike machine guns, I truly don’t understand why SBRs are Class 3. I’ve handled more than I can count. There is no way an SBR is “concealable” (the justification for them being Class 3) in a remotely similar way to a pistol. They’re way too bulky.

Gun nut here. Any firearm that shoots multiple rounds in quick succession with a single pull of the trigger is a machine gun. People can debate semantics all they want...but good luck arguing otherwise to BATFE.

How many people routinely do hole shots from intersections though? 0-60 is otherwise irrelevant. I exploit a car’s cornering abilities and over-the-road power far more often than I nail it at a standard start. 0-60 has become largely useless as an acceleration figure because it’s highly dependent on gearbox, driven…

You’re 100% correct. Unfortunately BMW is catering to 1.) Americans in the snow belt, who are convinced they’ll crash with AWD because they are too lazy to buy winter tires, and 2.) enthusiasts who drank Nissan GT-R (or at least stereotype about the GT-R) and Tesla kool-aid and therefore believe AWD is a magic warp…

First off, you shouldn’t be going so fast on a public road that your car snaps from a small mid-corner bump. Second, that is a stability issue rather than a power-induced issue, unless the driver had already jumped on the throttle at this point with the TC disabled. When in doubt, roll onto the throttle in a powerful…

Not a liability, provided the driver is responsible enough to mount proper tires. I dailied a RWD muscle car for 4 years in a mountain town. Went through snow and extremely low temps. Only issue was ground clearance, which AWD would not have solved.

Honestly....I’m disappointed.

Maybe its a personal taste thing, but I’ve moved on from minimalism in homes too. Classy and understated is one thing, but some of the interior designs I’m seeing like uncomfortable and cheap.