Spyder Creations builds replicas of the Porsche 550. Inch perfect, 100 percent accurate, all-aluminum replicas they sell for $320,000 or $470,000, depending on the engine. That sounds like a lot, but a real 550 is about $4 million. This is the 550 replica that real 550 owners buy so they have a car they can drive.

Behold the best page on Wikipedia (that you can view from work):

Probably Z06s will get cheaper first.

There are two things, the merits of the Model S as a car (high- its pretty cool) and its merits as a profitable product (not high, Tesla loses money and it propped up by short term tax incentives (especially in California) and the pollution credit market.

Note, if you read the link its basically pure speculation with almost no proof. Also, if the RB cars had some form of illegal traction control, why were they getting consistently swamped at the start of each race? Mercedes and especially Ferarri seem to have much better starts every time. In fact, Ferrari's starts…

Best thing was is he often invented stuff they had to make rules for (rather than the other way around).

Ferrari utter control of regulation, fines and the direction of F1 through Bernie is the best cheat in motorsports. It would be like Chevy utterly controlling NASCAR through the France family.

They also catch on fire.

Yes, as there is a Euro version

What actually happened was a low-pressure aluminum casing press failed. The press had hot metal within that then burned three workers. So not a fire, but an industrial accident. One worker received chest and upper body burns. All three were taken to the hospital with second degree burns, though one was released late…

Musk is so damn smart. He's just keeping Tesla in the news no matter what, even if some man who lives on Lake Como didn't like his roadster.

The 2014 Corvette has been a bit of a revelation in the last few months. Pretty much everyone who has driven the C7 has deemed it a huge win for General Motors: It's finally a well rounded car. And now Road & Track has deemed it as their performance car of the year.

A 996 with its IMS done properly, and no RMS issues tends to be priced accordingly. But given their polarizing appearance (especially the early models) 996s are likely to remain affordable. That said, an early 997 may be a better all around purchase.

Then your IMS fails, sending metal bits through your engine killing it. As your 996 is out of warranty, Porsche denies your claim and offers to sell you a new engine. Rinse and repeat until Porsche has to settle a class action suit (note- only certain date ranges covered). Moral- avoid IMS equipped 996 911's,…

(I may have used too many of these)

There have been three fires in Tesla cars lately. They make the news because Tesla can sneeze funny, be in the news, and then that sneeze will impact the stock price. Elon is tired of people talking about the fires, so, naturally, he talked about the fires in an interview.

Acura Beak wins over horrible Madza Derp Face. Not sure what is going up with the Japanese automakers and forcing horrible design language their customers dislike. Is it one of those crazy fads you have to live there to understand?

Yeah, between crash testing, the stupid euro pedestrian standards and there being no chance of selling a $50,000 Subaru WRX we were never getting that car. Car and Driver's latest mag had a nice bit on why the show cars often can't be moved straight to production.

About 24 years ago, Nissan launched a luxury brad in the U.S. by the name of Infiniti (with an "i" instead of a "y" for some reason).