8 radial piston engines would have been an unreal maintenance nightmare.

A sub-prime loan is one made to a non-prime borrower. typically these have an interest rate that reflects the risk premium associated with the borrower. Couple those with a long term and the borrower can easily pay a rather a lot more than the sticker (20% effective rate on a 72 month term would be 18,000 worth of…

the mc12 is on the federal s and d list and one would expect it to be used under those terms.

the e86 z4 coupe (3.0si or m) is not far behind and the interior is a bit better appointed than the z3 which borrows from the e36. Plenty happy with our recently aquired 07.

The escalade is clearly to cheap and too common. the cayenne isn't butch enough. your neighbor has a landrover, the x6m isn't a truck, the audio q7 is just a cayenne etc.

Way back in 1961 an e-type coupe weighed 2900 pounds. my e85 z4 coupe weighs 3100, a brz weighs ~2800. there's no reason to expect a big sports coupe or a full-sized sedan to be as svelte.

Not clear that by driving a temple to Fecundity that you're sacrificing your manhood.

There are plenty, probably an increasing number, for which a manual gearbox makes no sense.

> "were beginning to swell". That's a new one on us.

The mechanicals are in fact expensive. I have had larger beater german cars before and while there's a great deal of things you can ignore in the passenger compartment (irregular dashboard reboots when it's humid not being one of them). There are quite a few things under the hood and chassis that you cannot. If that…

well at this point there are a rather large number of inexpensive e36 coupes with shabby interiors and I6's that will also do the business.

The "bently meteor" is the one I linked to, built on a phantom II chassis and using the meteor v12.

The great part of small jets is when you take off you're out of gas, and when you land you're really out of gas.

A merlin weighs over a ton inclusive of fluids and is 7 feet 4 inches long. putting it in a car is deeply impractical...

> and let Honda absorb the existing tech.

cooking off a hundred of them at once is about a 100 million dollars (in 1980) or maybe a quarter billion today.

The Charge rate is largely dictated by battery design. The chademo connector however is ridiculously huge and terrible and the tesla connector is not.

If you own a tesla roadster you've already self-identified as not being that concerned with the cost. CPO at this point is under $90k so clearly demand is on the ebb.

Barbary pirates...

986s are certainly now getting accessible 987s maybe not so much.