The messiest part of Red Bull the brand is that the grandson of the founder (of the Thai company that originally created the product, not the Austrian entity) apparently killed a police officer in a hit and run while drunk and high on coke, and was never even charged.

If the evidence everyone seems to have seen by now is genuine and not a character assassination hack job (I’m leaning towards the former, myself - if it was faked, it was pretty fucking elaborate), he’s a POS and deserves to lose both his job and his wife (assuming she isn’t into her husband lame dad-flirting with an…

right. there was a dozen or so CT6-V Blackwings on Carmax a couple years ago. and then they were all gone. they can’t even keep CT6 3.0TT in stock for long either.

We’ve replaced the odd rear diff. on these model CTS (and ATS). Some caused by low fluid thanks to rear axle seal leak issues and others just....went.

You’re right, the 3rd gen CTS aged pretty well. 

No. Only the 1st gen CTS-V had the axle hopping issue.

Why the obsession with the clock? It’s a well decorated piece of 16th or 17th century technology. If the owner is really lucky it’s actually got an electric drive at the back end, but I expect that since it took so long to assemble it’s probably fully mechanical.

We know a lot of rich assholes have no taste and are dumb, but who are these people spending $30,000,000 on cars that aren’t even unique!???

Yes, the woodwork is breathtaking, but 30 million dollars’ worth of breathtaking? Yeesh.

Agreed. It’s a beautiul car but I don’t understand how they can charge 30 Million for it. Is half of it work hours? Man these coachbuilders must be ballin’.

I’m sorry I don’t see $30million. That’s superyacht money. The base car is 1/2 million dollars. The coachwork, wood work, interior design cost could maybe be a few million more. Let’s be generous and say the “all-in” actual costs are $5million - $8million.

The “new” Honda Accord looked 30 years old the day it debuted.

I think people are going to focus too much on exteriors here. Interiors started becoming more tech focused in the early 2010s. The dashboards of modern cars is what is going to make them look dated very quickly.

In general, the smartest new car buys are the leftovers or slow sellers that are being heavily discounted to move the metal. My two best automotive buys were my $36K ‘08 Saab 9-3SC that I paid less than $24K for new in the ‘09 GM Saab fire sale, and my leftover ‘18 Fiata Veloce that I bought in early ‘19 for more than…

My politics are pretty close to yours (though I swing VERY conservative on a few specific issue). I LOVE renting these cars and I am going to miss them when they are gone. I just had a Charger R/T this week in ATL. They are great to drive, and I think they are good looking in both forms. If Chrysler built a factory…

I’m a lifelong New Yorker and as anti MAGA as they come. My politics are traditional progressive era TR, New Deal and Great society, sitting roughly between Biden, Bernie and AOC. I own a 2018 Challenger GT awd that I purchased as leftover in 2019 for $28k, which was $10k off of the sticker price.

Everything Toyota is marked up right now, and it's life $10-$15K markups on PHEVs. You'll see six figure Land Cruisers. 

While I’m not crazy about the V6—there’s a jackass in the neighborhood who romps on his buzzy SXT as if it’s a Hellcat—the Challenger has a lot going for if you don’t have kids:

I don't see the value in either a low spec Challenger or a Corolla.  Both are not all that fun and I  could buy a Mazda3 and have more fun, a nicer interior and a more distinctive car

I suspect they are, just based on Toyota’s weird way of delivering cars to dealerships that leads to constant shortages. Add that with the Toyota tax based on their perceived reliability and value, and yah people make weird decisions. I’m not sure if that would apply to so much to base models, but you never know.