I fully agree.  The detail is the winner even if the track as a whole is not that amazing.

You are quite limited to what you can do within the space he was working with, at the scale of car he’s using. It’s very loosely based on the circuit, but the whole package does the trick to me.

It’s like the tv movies “inspired by real events”.  There is asphalt, lane markings and turns.  What more could you ask for?

The best part of this offering is the pic of the pristine car backgrounded by a garbage can, a BBQ, saw horses on some unfinished project, and an evidently unimpressed female member of the family in Crocs. “You stay classy Texas.”

Driving a 1500hp car doesn’t sound even remotely enjoyable unless its at a strip with drag slicks. Judging from the trophies proudly displayed under the hood, I suspect this is more of a show-off build that gets trailered to and from the destinations along with folding chairs and a timeout doll.

Might be a nice price for someone looking to buy a Viper and mod it up to 1500 hp. Maybe this is a cheaper route? I don’t know. I have no desire for a Viper that’s 3x more unruly than they are stock (assuming the unruly scale is linear with hp gains...it probably isn’t). A stock one at stock Viper prices would be much…

If it’s really as clean and well done as the seller claims (and it looks in pics) then I’d call it NP for what you get - assuming that’s what you want.

It could be NP or ND depending on your wants. If you just want to do fast sports car stuff, a stock or lightly modified Viper is still fast and would be much cheaper, so ND in that case. On the other hand if 500hp bores you and you have been itching for a comma in your horsepower number, by the time you buy just about…

80 grand for an ultra-customized Viper pushing 20 years old is buku bucks—WAY buku bucks. Too rich and impractical for my tastes. I could spend 60 grand on a restored 2nd gen Charger that seats 5 adults in complete comfort and have a helluva good time with the leftover $20K, but I’m just me.

Locally I can find three options, without looking too hard, from 01, 05 and 06, coupe convertible and ACR, all comparably priced to this but each one all original and great condition.

Sometimes, “someone else’s vision” is just as ND as “someone else’s project.” This may be built and maintained to a exquisite standard, but it’s still done to someone’s very specific taste. Unless you have some cosmic soul connection with the seller, it’s going to be meaningless.

It’s probably a fair price for what it is, but the changes have made the car even more brutish and even less comfortable to drive. “Just because you can doesn’t mean that you should.” It’s become the typical Texas car (“Mine’s bigger than yours”), trading finesse for swagger.  ND, for me.

True that - I’m hoping the Feds are very clear with the dealers on this, and that they have some tools to force compliance with the program rules in a way that protects consumers from said dealer fuckery, but if any group of business can be counted on to make this thing that they should treasure as a boon to their…

When I bought my Tesla, the sales associate very clearly stated that only government regulation was preventing Tesla from having full autonomy. Even then, it was necessary to believe in a conspiracy against Elon to believe in FSD. This was when Tesla had only just released AP2 with the side cameras on the Model S door…

I would argue that the problem here was not with Tesla beta testing Autopilot on unwitting customers, but a matter of overpromising what it could do and trying to just barely cover their asses with the fine print, and then continuing to do so even when it became clear what a mess they had created. Classic false…

Unfortunately, this is all too likely to now end in settlement. Tesla will not want to take this to trial where they will have to admit that “self-driving” was (is) not capable of doing what was advertised. 

#4 for your (very apt) list: Wait until January 2024, when the $7,500 tax credit is available at point of sale through the dealer rather than having to wait until you’re filing taxes for the year.

How Tesla has been able to get away with this scam for as long as it has is a mystery to me. Multiple people have been killed using FSD per Tesla’s instructions. The whole self-driving thing needs to have a stop put to it. Today’s sensors and software are not capable of dealing with all the variables inherent in…

We should not be beta-testing this kind of thing on public roads. I really hope this case goes to an actual trial. No settlements. Don’t let Elon write a little check to make this go away. People were killed using software that was absolutely not ready to be deployed to the public.

1st Gear: What Ford should be doing is looking into the real reason why they’re not moving as much product. They might want to crack down harder on their dealers for the excessive markups as a starting point.