Yep, I sold an E53 convertible to an older woman who just wanted a convertible and thought the seats were more comfortable than anything else she was in, didn’t care one bit about the great engine or anything else.

I would but I can’t whistle like that and not enough of an asshole to honk the horn in a huge crowd of waiting cars. I have been willing though to be what someone would consider “typical BMW driver” and go around the person not paying attention. Our Costco has I think four rows of three pumps with spots on each side,…

You can definitely get a nice car and still not know shit about them. I’d argue there’s plenty of people that have cool even classic cars and don’t know anything about them. It’s also very easy for someone that has money but doesn’t know anything about cars to just say “hey I want a cool old car” and either get a…

They have one that’ll try to get people’s attention but they never do pay attention to anything other than the car right in front of them or their phone.

Looked through a bunch of listings, a lot of them have modifications specific to him like George Foreman embroidered seats on the Viper. Kind of cool, but who knows what that would do to the value. Also, these cars have all apparently been non-op for a few years and there was a battery fire in the storage facility…

The car that many of us have in our head as the ultimate ideal vehicle.

Around me all the gas stations have 2 or 3 grades. If 2 it’s 87 and 91/93, most of the time out of town it’s 93 non-oxy. If 3 it’s normally the standard 87, 89, and 91/93, but with the push for 88 it’s been replacing the 89 option. And no fucking way I’m putting 88 in my BMW so there’s plenty of times where no-ethanol…

Yeah but I’m not putting it in anything that’s not a flex-fuel car, and it takes up the spot where 89 would be otherwise. My car is 89 minimum 91 recommended, so I’ll put in 89 when I can right now because the gap in price between the octanes is higher than ever.

Brandy or Whisky for me, but I put Jameson Black Barrel instead of bourbon. It’s got a very similar vanilla/caramel flavor to a good bourbon but better imo.

Oh! And the people in line at the Costco pumps that don’t look beyond the first pump to see if there’s an opening. They literally have an aisle to drive around and into any spot, just go dammit!

-Small towns only offering non-oxy premium that’s always 50 cents higher than normal 91

I was thinking she took the idea from Stanley, Phyllis, and Creed from the Office Fun Run.

You want it molested (at least driven) a bit though, they get leaky if they sit for long periods like almost every first owner did. 60-80k miles and Carfax records showing consistent miles regularly put on is ideal.

Good choice on the C5, 2004 commemorative package has the best blue available on them. Love my manual vert, blue/shale with only 25k miles.

I have a running list of replacements for my current car if it ever got totaled or died. They’re all relatively feasible, can be had under $50k, and in order based on idiocy:

I feel like with the zipper merges especially from construction, the average person around me has gotten better at them and I know I have definitely reduced any anger for people using the ending lane until it actually ends.

Yep, they argued (in theory it makes a little sense) that the fact that Tesla doesn’t use model years, just the year it was produced or whatever, and the fact that they haven’t changed the design means it would hold value better.

Um, no? At least most states the sales tax when you buy it out is based on the purchase price so the buyout amount. You already pay sales tax on your lease payment throughout the term so it would be stupid if a state made you double up on that.

That may be true most of the time, but in your example with midsize sedans there can be a big difference. The Big 3 sedans seem to depreciate a huge amount even after the cash on the hood, especially Malibus and the late 200s.

Jeez, a lot of what I see is completely the opposite. Around me in MN, supercar drivers mostly drive pretty normally. Sure there are a few asshat groups that tear up the highway but most of them are responsible. BMWs aren’t even all that bad (I swear I use my signals and park in the lines with mine), it’s the Prius…