1st gear Elon learns running a company is hard. Pesky government regulations and unions interfere with grand vision of colonizing Mars, or filling the cities with Teslas

The E39 is a legendary car and I6 with a 5 speed is a great combo but not $15,000 worth of great. Also never going to be an investment at that price. An E39 M5 might be an investment.  ND

Is that car actually for sale? I live in Bend.  

The three craziest racing classes in terms of performance for era and unfortunately risk to driver were definitely the 750kg Formula, original Can Am, and Group B rally. While some 60s and 70s sports prototypes and F1 got sketchy none had quite the margin of raw power over everything else 

There are good GMT400 trucks at decent prices out there, this is not one of them ND

That's right up there with Peter Wheeler's dog styling the TVR Chimaera

So far this is vaporware,  and the concept is dubious.  $300,000 is house money and I think the market of tech bros doing #vanlife is approaching saturation. I suppose they could sell to lesser plutocrats as an alternative to an apocalypse bunker  

Pininfarina has designed almost everything, including the Coke Freestyle machine. Offhand the largest production is probably a Peugeot or Fiat car. The Peugeot 504 was in production for decades, as was the 205. Even the Fiat 124 Spyder was produced in substantial numbers. 

What a guy

Of course it's for sale in Portland.  ND because even Mercedes Streeter would think twice at this one.

I have two, Peter Wheeler era,TVR for sheer batshit crazy like the Sagaris and the Cerbera Speed 8, and Mazda for consistently delivering great driver's,cars and keeping the faith with the MX-5

If they weren't getting old themselves you could do a show with comedy actors who were also automotive journalists.  Rowan Atkinson and Alexei Sayle both had columns in Car and Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf) wrote for Practical Classics. In between slagging each other off there would be some real content 

You completely missed Eclipse Luggage,  maker of excellent motorcycle tank bags

My father's family is the opposite.  In the early 60s an aunt went through a windshield and the whole extended family became very seatbelt aware.

Back in early oughts a friend had one kid and felt the need for a Honda Odyssey when we were hauling 2 kids in a Ford Escort.  For a bonus people in the park thought we were a clown car when we produced two kids, two adult bike, a trail-a-bike,  a Burley trailer,  and a picnic lunch from a small hatchback.  

No sane car company exec will touch Tesla's Partial Self Driving and Semi-auto pilot because it's instant lawsuit and trusting Elon with big chunk of your company's future.  If you can't roll you own it makes more sense to go with an established supplier like Bosch 

Does the price include a Hawaiian shirt a cigar and a Tom Selleck mustache? With the amount of work done and Ferraris and Ferrari mechanics cost more ore less NP

You’re right about modern cars looking alike and angry.

I can only feel schadenfreude for the CyberCucks reaping what Elon has sown. There's some interesting tech, but the design is atrocious and apparently rivals the Fisker Ocean for bugs.  

I now want some mad lad to LS swap a Cybertruck.