My ignition switch broke recently and I couldn’t turn off the engine.

As a volunteer at my local track, let me ask “what the hell are these dudes doing?”

Mortgage debt is now $8.7T vs $9.9T in 2008. Auto loan debt is $1.2T so just based on sheer number, no, it will not have the same effect as the housing crisis. 

E63 Wagon. You’ll have to go a bit older, but M-B’s CPO program is solid, and here’s one at a tick under $55k... in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Dealer says they’ll ship anywhere, but here’s an opportunity for an Epic Road Trip With Mom.

This has a shot at being the least-shit collection of responses to “What Car Should You Buy?” in the history of this bit.

That's why we are Motorsports engineers and not landscapers. If it's brown and smells like crap, afiak its crap.

That’s a shitload of downforce.

You’re off by about a factor of 5 for your cost to develop a brand new transmission from scratch. $10M to design, crash test, and pass regulations for a new transmission is hilariously low. $50m is the low end of things.

They’re smart enough not to start a whole development cycle that kills the profit of their revolutionary price point, yes.

So you’re assuming the take rate of 27% would continue, even though you’re now CHARGING for the manual transmission. Your math also assumes 100,000 manual transmissions Corvettes are sold, which I mean, come on dude. Really?

The engine appearance package is pretty smart.  There is a huge after market in engine appearance customization for people who show their cars.  This is just tapping into that market.

I am always amazed at peoples inability to understand basic economics.

Obvious answer is obvious:

FI3R0

Though this is going to wreck hell on people at car auctions 30 years from now arguing over VIN coding and whether certain options were factory.

Oh it certainly won’t be cheap. Carbon fiber, low unit volume, and testing to verify it doesn’t shatter the windscreen on a strong twist would make sure of that.

This. All I thought was if you crack one of those castings, oh boy, thats an expensive repair.

I think you’d need to split the doors in half like jeep doors. Let the bottom half be an insert that was essentially a low beltline “door” that didnt open and you could climb over easy, while the gullwing portion was only attached to the roof. In the event of rollover you’re still screwed, but thats an inherent…

5-Series Car for 3-Series money. Sounds like we’ve come full circle back to the 1st gen CTS.

This is amazing.

I died at Mustang Kamikaze Pilots.