The sum of two mediocre Ferraris is still mediocre.

Is that seriously how the body looks? Wow. This is bad. This is worse than crappy kit car bad. 

The cast aluminum chassis sounds like a bad idea.  

Nobody mentioned the Will Vi?

My point is that a lot of people automatically go and look for 1 year old used cars, thinking they are getting a good deal, without even checking new car prices.

If you were shopping for a German car, that should be the expectation going in.

Yup. No direct-injection and no turbos. Just simple old fashion 6 cylinder naturally asperated engine.

When I saw 317k I was ready to hit no dice, but this is a seriously well maintained and pampered car.   I think of the E class as the goldilocks of the MB line-up. The C-class suffers from cost-cutting measuers. The S-class suffers from complications and expensive stuffs breaking. The E class is typically the most…

Also, carburetors all need rebuilding at some point. Motorcycle carburetors will gunk up from sitting.

CVT transmissions suck

Until they achieve Level 5.

But then you’d get JD Vance- the guy who thought Handmaiden’s Tale was a how-to manual.

“work to remove regulatory barriers” to the operation of AVs

We also have two turbo cars in the household right now and I had installed a turbo on my Miata years back, so I am very familiar with turbos. Turbos generate a lot of heat under the hood, so that pretty much shortens all the components lives. All the added cooling lines and oiling lines, are an additional point of…

This makes zero sense.  These robotaxis are a good way for GM to learn how to make self driving cars. This is the battle for the future. Why is GM throwing in the towel?

The car forums work too but with far fewer relevant data points and more time consuming to sort through the noise. Especially  if you are cross-shopping between several cars, it’s easier to use Trucar to check the street prices.

But the company, like other domestics, make their big profits from their pickup trucks. The Hemi engine is still popular among that customer base. The turbo engines may get better mpg numbers on paper, but in the real world it never pans out. And the turbo engines are too complex and unreliable.

He wanted the company’s vehicles to be more expensive to buy, cheaper to produce

I am surprised that Trucar is bleeding this much money. I consider Trucar pretty much a must when shopping for a new car- you want to see what other people are paying. 

Pretty much only one car fits that description: the mid 60's Mercedes S class convertible: