I do every one of these things and I got my BA 10 years ago and have worked in my field ever since and am still broke. I don't think I've ever bought new furniture. Hell the only pieces of furniture I've ever purchased instead of sourcing from the roadside were a used bed for $150 and a chair from a metal scrapyard…

Well I'm not talking about actually driving it; I'm talking about buying it and hoping it raises in value, hence the whole "fully depreciated" term. You don't make anything off an old Ferrari you turn into a daily driver. That's crazy talk.

Yeah I know but I'd rather take out $25,000* on a car that's already fully depreciated, like a Ferrari 308, which is about in that range. It's just an example of conspicuous largesse to buy a couple year old European luxury vehicle, because those things lose just an enormous amount of their value in the first half…

Did that a couple times already. They're probably buried because this went pretty deep.

Well keep in mind once the last car moves to the other lane theoretically the tailgater assumedly would be able to go the speed they're advertising they need to go by tailgating.

Well yeah in theory, but then there's the problem where in practice I've had tailgating douchebags literally only tailgate me so that I would pull over so they could be in front of me, then they slow down. So I get into this stupid game of centipede with an antagonistic asshat who just wants to be first.

Just like Ram is now a brand, because "All we make are trucks, even if we're still made by the same company that makes all those cars."

But how can we have a Neon with a Plymouth and a Dodge? This is the headsplode gift given to us by Chrysler. They'll find a way to call that thing a Dodge. Maybe they'll go the old school naming route in reverse and call it the Dodge Plymouth Barracuda and all the sudden Plymouth is alive and well again.

Hey if you want me to say you're the winner here so you'll stop being so dang mad I can do that.

They should just go the fun route and severely underrate it like GM did with the Grand National in the days of the "let's not talk hp!" C4 Corvette. It's hard to hold onto credulity when a car allegedly barely cracking 200hp in stock trim can suddenly do wheelstands with a couple fuel system changes, cranking the…

I hope you recognize the irony of you using the words "dumb point" and "GTFO" to try to persuade somebody who deals in "big words" to see your perspective.

I accept your decree, but with a slight modification: Work hard in a career field that isn't imploding and get the life you want. If only someone with more sense than me had told me that as I picked my major in college.

I appreciate the clarification in the first paragraph. And I definitely have seen a couple guys on here who have cheaper cars (hence what I've written up there), but paragraph three? I've already said Mike Spinelli was the other rich guy, and hell, that was just a guess.

Am I wrong that Doug has at least a ~5 year old Range Rover and a Ferrari 360?

Well yeah, if you don't know what words mean. I meant exactly what I wrote. I get the impression that a couple guys here are rich, and that it ruins the illusion that what they write is at all geared toward a normal car guy. Clearly I didn't write anything other than that. Hell, I even explained it in depth, then…

Look, based on the word "couple" and the existence of Doug DeMuro I'm off by a maximum of one person.

Mike Spinelli?

Yeah those states are terrifying to me. It should be my God-given right to tell the tag agency that some random dude gave me a car and act baffled when my registration fee mysteriously costs me 80% less.

Don't know what made you say this, but I agree. Some of the content on this site is practically absurdist in how taken for granted the access to random as-yet-unavailable cars is presented.

That is a beautifully angry Wookee underneath that hood. Those VR and WR motors are like a gift from VW to the world, simply because it's a sound nobody had ever heard before. And the larger the cylinder count, the rarer and more majestic it is. Such a freakish violent mellifluousness.