Ferrari isn’t going broke, they sell more t-shirts, hats, and keychains than every other manufacturer in the world combined. I caught an uber in Finland,and the guy was driving some little beater car that probably cost less than a Ferrari mirror new, and yet the guy had a Ferrari hat, keychain, cell phone case, and…

Also lest anyone forget. When NK does fire the first nuke at the US the exact target coordinates are extremely obvious. It’s a 50/50 guess between the houses of 2 people who voted for Hillary: Seth Rogen and James Franco.

Didn’t vote for Trump, generally don’t care for anything he is doing.

I will grant you the the US foreign policy with regards to NK has been atrocious for decades. Literally everything regarding that country has been handled wrong. The US was coming off the crushing of Japan with nukes, and then decided to put the kid gloves on instead of pointing at the still smoldering ashes of Japan…

Right, blame Trump for a problem that has existed for decades. I think we should blame Trump for global warming, the Vietnam war, & the Great Recession too!

Are you ignorant or stupid? Trump is not the one who picked the fight. Kim Jong-Un is the idiot who keeps poking the hornets nest. Also from a technical standpoint they can hit the east coast just about as easily as the west coast by going over the North Pole.

Do you have a beach house in the Hamptons or Martha’s Vineyard? Do all of your neighbors have Defender 90's? Then this is the truck for you!

I mean too his point there are already 2 Bentayga’s I see around Destin. And having seen them in person, they do just look like someone slapped a horrible Bentley themed Mansory kit on a Q7.

They are built to a completely different spec now. Starting with the M156 “6.3" in 2007. But pre 2007 they were basically rebuilt production engines.

Interesting. I know Audi & Mercedes under report their HP on flagship models, but it’s usually something like 5-7%, not the 18-20% which is typical drivetrain loss.

You own a Range Rover don’t you? every morning I wake up and ask myself what’s going to choose not to work today on my Range Rover. At least 3 mornings a week the AC likes to have an extra 10 mins of sleep before it shows up to work. The parking sensors only work when I’m approaching a very low curb or grass that I’ll…

Well I guess technically I can’t speak to VAG 2.0T model cars. But the performance divisions all report crank. Also Audi mounts the 2.0 transversely in most everything, because the TT, A3, A4, A6, Q3 & Q5 were all available with FWD. the TT & A3 don’t even use Quattro, they use Haladex.

Ok maybe 1m mile was a bit of an exaggeration. But the M113 & M113k are absolutely the most durable modern Mercedes engines. Many are faithfully plugging along at 200-400k miles. I’ve owned a couple M113's (not a K yet, but I want one) and the engine and 722.6 trans were flawless. Unfortunately other things on the car…

My understanding is that ALL Germans advertise crank HP as official numbers. citation is that I have driven exclusively German cars in my lifetime and found this to be the case. I haven’t owned an E55 (though I really want one) the contemporary C5 RS6 (which I owned) advertised 450hp, I had mine dyno tuned from 360whp…

The engines are dead reliable. Old school Mercedes 1,000,000 mile engines & transmissions. with ludicrous AMG horsepower figures. Now how many times the air suspension may have been replaced is hard to say. And the rest of the electronics on the car are overly complicated as well.

No they definitely all use crank.

We were in LA for business one weekend, because it was the weekend, and we only had 1 meeting and a lot of time to kill we upgraded from a mustang to a yellow corvette convertible. Decided to tour LA after our meeting, I dont know LA at all and it was the days before apple maps and waze were my thing, so using in car…

Bortles is decent, he needs a supporting cast around him though. Goff I never believed in as a first round pick. Just like I never believed in Josh Freeman, Jonny Football, Blane Gabbert, and from this year Mitch Trubisky.

Mercedes already has a restoration program, and they’ll restore any Old Mercedes you want.

My friend has an SVR and he let me drive it, it’s certifiably insane.