If it doesn’t depreciate by 40% in the first three years, and replacement parts don’t cost three times the price of normal parts, then it’s not a luxury car.

I’ve heard some drifting buddies talking about them. Apparently these companies buy old molds from tire companies and basically make older versions of name brand tires.

Looks like the full name of the tires are Cosmo Mucho Macho.  They also sell tires named Kitty Kat, Sexy Beast, and Chubby Nubby.  Their marketing director is 10 years old.

I’m a little worried about the Macho Cosmo (Cosmo Macho?) tires. Anyone who’d install those probably didn’t have the cash to correctly maintain the rest of the vehicle, so god knows what’s wrong with it.

It is 100% de rigeur.

Thanks! I like to take the time to do these things right, so I appreciate it when someone notices.

Side-note: Props for showing the insert text through the windows in the thumbnail!

I have an unfortunate amount of exposure to VC firms and “startup culture.” The number of times in a week that I hear an existing idea put forth as something radical and different is going to put me in an early grave for sure.

Did you know that if you wrap a straw man in a fallacy of composition and then douse it in politics that it still doesn’t constitute a valid fucking premise?

It’s pretty well understood that traffic increases to fill available road capacity, so not expanding the highways is completely reasonable if your goal is to reduce the number of cars driving. If they expanded the lanes, it would still take 45 minutes to drive 7 miles, because there’d be 30% more cars stuck in traffic.

pretty soon silicon valley is going to “invent” the bus

Exactly.

Correct.
People that ditch the ownership have probably done this math and realized that owning does not work for them for any number of math reasons that don’t fit into that simplistic study.

Also, land in SF is absurd. Living in a mostly-not urine-soaked refrigerator box will set you back $2500 a month. I can’t imagine…

Their math at MIT might be way wrong.

Actually, the manual COULD be had with 4WD. I know, because we have one! It was damn hard to find in southern California too. I was either about to order one or cast my net up into northern CA.

What about reliable?

Four doors, safe, manual, under $10k?

SWEET BARKING CHEESE.

That's feckin' weird and I absolutely love it. Thanks for posting it!

I would also like to know what Michelotti was smoking when he designed Vignale’s take on the Fiat 750 Abarth. It must have been awesome!