It’s heavy but you don’t feel it. The sound, especially when the baffles are open and it upshifts, is unbelievable.

and they’ve shown absolutely no effort to improve

Slide 8, a hearse?

“Bodgeable: Oil leaked out because drain plug melted; replaced with wine cork and cooking oil on roadside, got home.”

A well-off car collector friend of mine tells a story about getting called by his friend to look at a car once. His friend is a salesman at a dealership, and they had this interesting car come through.

Funny story, the targa roof latches on the delSol work exactly the same as the ones on the targa (‘95+) NSX.

I started with a ‘97 delSol in 1999. Divorce and forced sale caused a big gap, then ‘06 S2000 in 2012. Next was a ‘00 NSX in 2017. I auctioned the NSX a few months ago on BringATrailer and replaced it with an LC500 convertible.

True story.

One has to wonder what other decisions you make in your life based more on what other people think than what you want.

It’s so beautiful, I’m amazed Toyota/Lexus even made it. This isn’t the kind of car they build.  In 5-10 years when they’ve been discontinued for a while you’re going to see every “car guy” on the internet asking why more people didn’t buy them.  The used values are going to be nuts.

Search nationally on car search engines like AutoTrader and CarGurus. Both of mine were RWD from Georgia (apparently the GS is a common lawyer/doctor lease car), I live in Denver. Fly there Friday night, pick it up Saturday morning then you’re home Sunday night.

https://www.bmwblog.com/2021/01/28/bmw-318ti-the-cult-car/

It is the Z4ti, at least in price.

If I sit on the cash then buy the next car in 6 months, yeah.  My most likely next purchase is a Toyota BZ4X, so we’ll see what the tax credits are when those come out.

It was AutoNation, their HQ in Florida initially kicked it back as paying too much. I thought the deal was done. But the local (Denver) dealer sent back some kind of justification for the higher price here.

I don’t flip GPUs and PS5's, the ROI is too low for the cost of my time.

The market wasn’t “like this” when I ordered the Model Y last year.  As for the next buyer not being able to take advantage of the EV credit, blame lawmakers and the impatience of car buyers?  If the tax credit is essential to the next buyer, they…

I’m seriously considering the Toyota EV (BZ4X) next, depending on the self driving tech. I do love the $/mile of an EV but my Tesla was eating tires fast and the fit&finish could have been better.

I did, I sold one.  Increased supply means lower prices.  Not a brag, I got paid.

I got a carvana offer at $55K then listed it privately for $61K, it sold in a few hours. Strangely enough, a dealer bought it to resell so I left a few bucks on the table.

I bought one of the first post-covid Model Y’s for $55K in June 2020. Sales tax / registration roughly balanced out with federal / state EV tax credits. Drove it for 16K miles and sold it last Friday for $6K more than I had into it.