No, they really truly DO NOT haggle on the price of the car, or any of the add-ons. The price is the price. I suppose if you wait long enough and the car does not sell, the price will probably go down. I don't believe they will haggle at all on a trade either - just like when you sell them a car, the offer is the…

Exactly this - every two-year-old knows how to say “No”. It’s not hard. Nooooo.

For perspective - CarMax currently has a single M235i on their website, a 2015 with 7K on it. Auto, premium package, heated seats only. For $46K. That is $2500 MORE than I am paying for a 2016 with all the premium pkg stuff except leather, the Tech pkg (Nav, etc), full cold weathe pkg, and H/K stereo. For a USED car.…

They actually would not TAKE my nicely presented folder of history when I sold my Abarth to them. They did give me a good price for it. And of course, their asking price for it was a bit stupid. They sold it in about 2 months.

But with TORQUE! So unlike the S2000, it won't feel like a gutless wonder below 4500 rpm.

In New England, the douchebags drive Infinitis, almost without exception. They are the car equivalent of a Brodozer. Though whenever I am in California, I do see the behaviors that give BMW drivers a bad name. Makes me cringe. Reality is that it is a tiny percentage of BMW drivers, but there are just SO MANY BMWs out…

If you space the gearing like you suggest, the buff books will whine about the “huge gap” between 5th and 6th. There is just no winning here.

Because CAFE. You simply can't meet fuel economy goals with short gearing today. And these days, even without the Feds influence people would grip about the loss of the 2-3mpg and the "buzzy engine" at highway speed. No way you could sell a car like my old '84 GLI that turned 4K rpm at 80mph.

Here on the other coast in Maine, very much the other way around. Corvettes a dime-a-dozen, Porsches are relatively rare.

A base Cayman - or what I actually did buy, an M235i. But since you can’t do European Delivery on a Corvette, it doesn’t get a look in even if I did have a bad comb-over, a Navy cap, and an inappropriately young and tanned trophy wife...

Ah, Google to the rescue - it was still Meilenwerk AG back then. Wish I had the time to go back when I do it again in August.

I went there on my last trip to Germany as well. Amazing! Seems like it was called something else then though, but I can’t remember. Three Ferrari Enzos in one building, though it was the classic Alfa shop that had me drooling.

You missed one in the history - in between the stroker Sonett and the Sonett III was the Sonett V4, built in ‘68 and ‘69. Basic bodyshell of the stroker Sonett (no popup headlamps, tiny trunk flap, no hatch but a huge one piece bubble glass in the back), but with the mother of all power bulges in the hood to cover the…

I've been driving sticks continuously for over 30 years and I still stall it once in a while. Feel like an idiot every time too.

Maine still requires this on the driver’s exam. If you roll backwards AT ALL, you fail. Amusingly, they require it whether you are driving a stick or an automatic. I have no idea what people with foot-operated parking brakes and stickshifts do. Yes, that vile combination exists.

That’s easy. Gently roll backwards until you use their front bumper as a stop. Then proceed as usual. Obviously, they stopped that close to be of assistance.

With two round headlamps it was an “STD” which was the basest of the base model for the ‘80-87-88ish Subaru hatch. They kept making the hatch for a few years after the redesign in '85 for the sedan and wagon. The DL had two rectangular headlights, the GL quad rectangular. My Grandfather had one of the very first ‘80…

All the city buses here in Portland Maine have that too, though it is a big amber light right in the middle of the back of the bus rather than on the roof.

VW never once ever referred officially to this car as a coupe. Because it is not a coupe, it is a 2dr sedan. Only in the US do people think that whether something is a coupe or not has anything to do with the number of doors. A Sirocco is a coupe.

As did early Chrysler minivans. For the uber-rareness factor, you could get one with a TURBO and a stick. I have even driven one. MUCH more fun than a Previa, since I don't think you could get a stick and a supercharger in the same Previa.