Behold, the beauty of a station wagon. I work in film production, and I always get chuckles when I say I can get a small shoots’ worth of equipment in the back of my A3 manual wagon.

This brings me back to the current problems at Boeing - a company where you had a lot of smart people working and building great products, but then (after a merger) had all those people micromanaged and bean-counted into obscurity and irrelevance.

This guy looks INCREDIBLY punchable.

My dad “retired” almost 12 years ago, but he went back to work and still works in a mostly manual job (machine mechanic) full time again. He doesn’t need the money, he just likes staying busy. People want to feel useful. They want to feel like they have purpose. To some, that’s normal work. 

Money is an iron that smoothes out the wrinkles of living.

The arc of engine history is long, but it bends towards LS swaps.

I think you’re right - the design is still great, though. Would love to see federal standards get updated so that we can have these. I find the Audis with sequential turn signal lights get my attention much more in traffic than just regular blinking signals. Maybe we could update the headlamp rules at the same time. 

Those are pretty slick, but I can’t imagine (correct me if I'm wrong) they’re federal compliant!

Isn’t there some kind of federal highway rule for turn signals/brakes? This seems like a pretty poor design from a usability/visibility angle.

Where, though? These are all just concepts. Rivan, The Cybertruck, this Karma creation (kreation?) - they’re all just silly design exercises until at least one of them enters production.

To me this doesn’t feel like the “Cars and Coffee” I used to go to 10 or even 5 years ago. This is no longer a casual and quiet get-together of car lovers to check out each others’ rides while having coffee early in the morning on a Saturday. Over the past years, like you wrote, it has morphed into a massive social…

Our escalators don’t work here - they magically transform to stairs every few months. Good for getting your steps in, at least!

Public transit: now with more horsepower. 

I think most of these were leased to begin with. Looks like the secondhand market has 2016s hovering around the $50-65k with 10-20k miles. That’s quite the depreciation curve. 

Oh man, I’ve done my share of driving around medieval towns in France and Spain, and I would not want to drive a Ferrari there. I’m in DC, so it’s still crumbling to pieces, but I drive an S3 or a 91 MR2 now, and i’ve gotten used to the back breaking ride. 

It was fine renting it, although charging was a bit of a hassle at the hotel. They didn’t have a fast charger, so I had to leave the Tesla at a mall nearby and walk. That being said, this was 3 or 4 years ago so I imagine the infrastructure is better now!

I still turn my head and stare when I see an i8 drive by, or stop at a light. These things still look futuristic, straight out of a Philip K Dick film adaption - almost like something I used to draw as a kid, or used to race on the Pinewood Derby days. I’ll be interested to see how these do on the second/third-hand…

Totally get that - guess it also depends on what your daily driving mileage is. My “daily” is about 4-5 miles, and I travel a lot for work, so I rarely put more than 4,000 miles on my car every year. Maybe a “light” daily driver!

Found this while I was digging around Autotrader - after some research, the forums seem to think that $1,000/year and $5-7,000/5 years for maintenance, which is high, but seems reasonable. This could be a great way to get a daily driving Ferrari in lieu of a Cayman or something more pedestrian. 

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