But don't true Jalops only buy used anyway? Makes them even cheaper!

Owning a BMW (and an Abarth as well, actually), and being in the local BMWCCA chapter with a whole bunch of people with N20, N54, and N55 direct-injection cars, I am calling Bullshit on anything near annual cleanings. Some cars never need it at all. It's also perfectly DIY'able with a set of dental pics and some elbow…

And runs over anything too, which might come in handy.

I'm a happy P38 Range Rover driver, but I do love those Classics, and the Autobiography is the king of the hill. Though if I were to buy a Classic, I would want a vinyl trim manual transmission 3dr. Just because.

I think the advantages of DI are well-worth the added maintenance. Better power and better fuel economy in exchange for a cleaning every 4-5 years seems like a fair trade. TANSTAAFL. It is also something that is bound to get better as the tech improves.

ROFL! What about flying AND fucking? I have always wanted to join the Mile-High-Club. Can't afford one of those super suites on an A380 or a private jet though!

To be fair, Singer is starting with an expensive car that had pretty fabulous fit and finish to start with. These guys are starting with a cheap car that was literally hammered together by guys in Detroit. Only so much better you can make a car that had economy car tolerances to start with. You can bet they are put…

If actually you have the cash to blow on a car instead of financing it, you are highly unlikely to need it any time soon. Even in a pinch, you could cash just enough out to be able to pay the payments for a while. Take the free money loan, invest the cash.

That's a fantastic analogy!

You'll feel even better if you put the money into an index fund and take the stupid low rate financing on the car and come out a couple grand ahead of if you had paid cash.

Kind of a weird setup - Bill Dodge BMW and Bill Dodge Infiniti, my local BMW dealer in Westbrook, ME. Very small, and the only BMW dealership and the only Infiniti dealership in Maine. The two dealerships are in the same building, which is built in two halves with the service bays in the middle like a tunnel, with the…

And none of those cars are sold on this side of the Atlantic. We take what we can get here.

I find a smile and a hello go a LONG way with the FAs, as does a please and thank-you. Food? On airplanes? :-)

Also in IT - consultant/field engineer doing SAN storage, backup, and virtualization projects all over the country. A ton of it is the field engineer work - this weekend and next weekend I am flying around the country adding disk shelves and doing firmware updates on SAN systems. Tomorrow is typical, I'm based in…

My e91 has been near perfect since new. No mechanical issues, one bad seat relay, one leaky headlight washer, a couple door seals replaced due to splitting where I rub against them getting in and out. Of course, it is a MUCH less complex car than an e61, having no turbos, no automatic, no AWD system, no iDrive, among…

I'm right up there with you, been doing this for 20 years. First NWA\Continental, then Delta, now US. All short hop domestic. The magic is still there for me.

The E-Jets are far and away my favorite planes flying in the US today. Was Republic operating your flight? They fly the 170 and 175 for US Airways Express and United too, and mainline US Airways flies the 190. I fly on them for better than 1/2 my flights these days.

The Accord Wagon, sold here as an Acura TSX, is no longer sold here, and was even rarer than the BMW wagon. And autobox with wheezy 4cyl only, blech. The Toyota Venza is really more of a CUV sort of thing. And duller than dishwater.

I love to fly. Even in coach, but I much prefer first, I am only human. 139 flights last year, over 30 so far this year already. Four this weekend, five next weekend already booked. Almost entirely work travel.

And again, not in America. We get this, the BMW 328i/d, and the Mercedes E-class for proper wagons, and that is IT at the moment. This is the only one available with a stickshift.