Except setting a precedent like that can get out of hand and outweigh the benefits really quick. They make basically nothing on gas, so a few un-questioned pricey repair bills here and there is going to wipe out any money they make on gas real quick. 

The lawyers throw fine print at the bottom of the ads to cover their asses:

Except there’s no way to actually make this anonymous. It’s not like we’re talking some Chevelle or Charger at Barrett Jackson. The community of collecting 60 year old Ferrari race cars with 8 digit price tags is small and I imagine a decent portion of that population knew who had the car before, and a decent portion…

Or the opposite could be true. Some uber-rich dude has a hard on for this car and doesn’t want to risk losing it to a competitor at auction and therefore offers up every penny he can justify in order to seal the deal. 

It’s kind of ironic at a glance to hear him say he’s too old and out of shape to do a driving show, meanwhile he’s carrying on doing a show about running his own farm.

Man it must be nice to be rich and famous. If any one of the average joes reading this article had done the same thing I’m sure we would be fighting to avoid jail time and keep our license...

I would submit any car with “limited” trim level that is in fact a primary trim level and no way “limited”

“I want a reliable daily driver with modern tech, heated seats and android auto”

Note to self, do not buy any detroit manufactured vehicle with a 1/28 build date because you know half the assembly line is going to show up 10 beers deep

Given how far back behind the headlights they cut and how much open space their is back there in the fender I’m wondering if there’s more to this story.

I think it might just be really poor wording in the article. I’m assuming what they mean is the numbers turned out to be illegitimate so more like the 75K was “un-deposited” from the tuners account, not that the check was somehow devised to initially be a check paid out of the seller’s account. 

+1, when i’ve sold vehicles via cashiers check, I have requested to actually meet at the bank and accompany the buyer when they’re getting the check and offered to do the same when I’m paying via cashiers check.

Came here to say exactly this, 75% of new car buyers are stuck picking from the dealer spec on the lot because these days if you ask a dealer to place a custom order, most of them will respond similarly to if you had asked to sleep with their wife. 

So instead, they spend the same money for a week at a Caribbean resort with the A/C turned to 11, heated and cooled pools, entertainment, excursions every which way, and of course an airplane ride each way. Carbon emissions: probably about the same.

+1, we also need to adjust his reported range figures for the fact that you know there were 0.00000 watts of power used for turn signals during the miles reported. 

Makes sense, I’m still surprised how many manufacturers do not seem to pass that discount on to the customer. At least on PHEV leases a few months ago, Jeep seemed to be in the minority with their policy of applying the credit to the lease.

However, most EVs still can get the $7500 credit if they are leased, and customers get this discount regardless of their filing status.

The age verification thing seems like if could be useful if they added the one extra capability of scanning the ID. Presumably a computer could scan the barcode to confirm it’s a legit ID and also compare the photo to the person?

I was going to say the same, I think there might be some selection bias in the sample. Particularly among men, I could easily believe a trend where the guys who make more are more proud and more likely to opt into the survey and the entry level guys might be less willing to disclose. Meanwhile women generally aren’t…

Is it just me, or in the last image does the front of the hill look weirdly photoshopped? Like on the right side a bunch of oddly straight lines or perfectly circular lines for what’s supposed to be just a pile of dirt? Wonder if someone had some OSHA violations they didn’t want showing up on the news?