I haven’t been around Volvos from this era (only seeing them from afar) and I think my mind just assumed the bulletproof reliability of later wagons extended back to these. I suppose nothing from 1972 is particularly reliable, and the ease of maintenance of and older car is probably negated by the part availability.

It looks like someone spend a decent sum to buy a nice clean 944 and then another princely sum in bolt-in parts to play boy racer. I bet it’s spend minimal time on a track being wringed out, which is good (but means it’s probably not actually track ready) but if that bin of parts doesn’t include seats it’s probably…

I think it’s almost all sentimental value. If this can’t run down a drag strip (even non-competitively) it’s basically worthless. The sum of it’s parts is worth a few grand, everything else is what it’s worth to the person who built it.

If they aren’t sending it to him by Tweet he isn’t going to read it anyway.

Then add on the damn costly self driving they forced me to pay for! Fucking ridiculous. Luckily Trump will lower the cost of milk.

If you can tune the electric fake exhaust to just rev over and over any time it’s under 5mph, it should fit the needs of most v8 Charger owners I encounter. How it works for the older crowd and the v6 buyers, I’m not sure, but I’m not optimistic for them.

The trim for the Fartsonic exhaust looks like it could be 3D printed, so there’s definately some stuff that will be more tidy. That said, we aren’t a year+ out from when these are supposed to be delivered, so it seems like they are cutting it close on some things. 

So it didn’t see these ones? Or the asleep driver didn’t see these ones? Or it saw them and didn’t react properly? Or was this fixed after the crash mentioned above?

Yeah, if the system doesn’t know what’s flashing it should stop. Whether it’s hazard lights on the side of the road (or some moron going 35 on the highway because they have a flat), a snow plow, an ambulance, or “I don’t know”, it should force a takeover. Even if the system does know it’s a stopped tow truck, drivers…

I’m not going to comment on whether it’s the driver’s fault or Tesla’s fault - I’m sure everyone else will cover that.

I bet there’s also a part of him that cares enough about the company that he worked for (and the people he worked with) for so long that drove the decision. The millions of dollars surely didn’t hurt, though.

I hope the autoworkers are happy they don’t have to build WOKE EVs when they are at home not building anything because their union protections went out the window. 

While I’d agree that E39s aren’t going to lose value in general, I think the mileage on this one makes it riskier. If the maintenance covers all of the pain points and a lot of the “just old car” things, it may be a decent deal. But if something breaks, you’ll have a nearly 200k mile broken BMW. If you want to drive…

I bought a pair of Gore-Tex lined snowmobile gloves at the rental place while my comrades were getting their sleds paid for. What a fantastic purchase that was.

I went NP because it’s in very good shape, but I wouldn’t buy it. My nostalgia for these is tied to a bench seat single cab with a manual shifter on the floor. You might be able to get me into an automatic for the v8, but I’m not budging on the bench.

It’s fine, they’ll just lay a ton of people off and close a couple plants so their balance sheet looks good at the end of the year. No lost sleep over it for the people at the level of getting stock options.

I guess building a dedicated EV platform has efficiency advantages for an EV.....but if Honda pulled a Kia and offered this in Gas (Si trim only), hybrid, and EV it would be pretty fantastic.

My first thought was to use the kit with a (relatively) cheap to acquire automatic NA. Maybe bonus points if you know someone who needs a 1.8l to swap into their tired 1.6l car. Buy a clean automatic, sell off the engine, give the car new life with an EV conversion.

It’s definately overpriced. But my point was that I think most here would agree that it leans toward “desirable vehicle” more than “just not a desirable vehicle”.

It’s the finishing details on that concept that make it look good. The production car looks like they got 90% done with it and fired the design team. The tail lights, in particular, are appalling. If you saw those half-assed Harbor Freight looking things on a 1997 Silverado with a flat-bed cobbled together from 2x4…