New? That looks an awful lot like a face lifted Niva to me, not a new model.

I know, right? That silver Hispano Suiza has a similar door arrangement.

I’m rather partial to coach built cars myself but I can’t really contribute a whole lot to which platform had the most/best coachbuilt bodies. We’d have to go back the to the 30's for that when just about every luxury car was sold as a chassis and subsequently bodied by the customer’s preferred body builder. While I…

Very easily arguable indeed. This is about as generic as a 2-door coupe gets. They made far more striking cars in the past and far more striking coupes are in production today.

Luckily, Doja says she has recovered and is “fine” now.

Years can be shortened with funding. Something the more established manufacturers have a lot more of. They may be 2-6 years late to the party, but that doesn’t mean it’ll take them that long to catch up when they can spend 10x as much to get there.

Aren’t pretty much all of Teslas patents free? They’re only behind because they refuse to use them. Stop crying.

I probably spend way too much time scrolling through the classics section of the Copart site. Though most of them have the “fire damage” tag, it’s sad how many cars have the “Theft recovery/stripped” description. I think it’s fairly safe to assume most classics getting stolen are simply stripped for parts and they’re…

That just fucking sucks. It’s very little consolation, but those parts are likely to keep a few other 944's on the road.

I’m not even sure I could take the key out the ignition of the car I had while I lived in buttfuck-nowhere. I bought the car, put they key in and never took it out for as long as I owned it. When the distance to the next neighbor is calculated in miles no one’s gonna steal it and if someone does one of the nearest…

Last time my car was broken into and stolen I was given a few tips by the cops.

A friend of mine was thanked by the insurance agent for not locking his car, a Subaru Brat. That meant they only stole his stereo and didn’t break any windows or locks as that would likely have totaled the car and led to a higher payout (They weren’t worth much then, not sure what they’re worth nowadays).

Oh, sure yeah. I run out stealing cars every day because I know I wont get caught. Just like you. Why care, right?

Labor always makes some rich asshole richer. The person doing the admin will be making more money than than the laborer in any situation. Legal or not. Other than that, spot on.

You don’t have to resort to movies for awesome anti-theft. This was a real thing:

Ya’ll have some high tech car thieves over there. Or US market cars just aren’t as theft proof. I know there are fairly easy ways to trick something with a remote key, but still. It requires the right equipment/investment in such things. Back in the year 2000 16.115 cars were reported stolen in my country. 2019:…

Mr. Jason should suffice after this kind of exposure.

Many boomers are still alive, yes. Half my grandparents have passed on and same with both my parents and I’m only an elder millennial. At least according to wikipedia 1983 qualifies my as a millennial, one year late for gen-x. By 9 days...

Oh, the engine swap and mid engine configuration could probably pass here too. The execution definitely wouldn’t though.

“Here” is Yurop. You can do this just fine and drive it on the street all day. For a year. Then there is the yearly inspections. You can’t even have lowering springs/lift kits on it without it getting approved. Much less a frame supported by soft rebar. This is a case of sitting back and thinking “Yeah, there’s a good…