Oh no, there are TONS of them here in God’s Waiting Room, FL. The blue-hair “ladies who lunch” set LOVE them. I have never seen one with the top down. Goes for the Toyota Camry Solara convertibles too.

It didn’t suck, it was just *wildly* overpriced for what was basically a Bolt in a pretty party frock. Same dilemma the Caddy Corvette (XLR?) had (plus the terrible Northstar under the hood). That is another car that probably should have been on this list. And for money spent vs. sales, the true winner has to be the…

I swear every one ever sold is in Portland, ME. Most of the NG9-5s too.

More like 400, IIRC.

And you could get a Boxster/Cayman with a stick. I HAD the money for a 4C, but I have no interest in a sportscar with an automatic. I looked at one when I bought my Fiata (yup, I had one of the 16K), a 2018, but nope, I didn’t like the lack of involvement, even if the flappy paddles are faster around the ‘ring. I only…

That was SO my childhood. Except for the boomerang pumps, LOL.

ROFL! if that’s legal in Maine, it would be a sure way to get rich.

We have the JANKIEST ice cream truck I have ever seen that wanders through my neighborhood in God’s Waiting Room, FL. It’s RUSTY. In FLORIDA. Given there are basically no children here, it must be all Cryptkeepers gumming his wares. It plays The Entertainer at volumes Gramps can hear without his hearing aids turned on.

Do they clean up the mess afterwards? And I assume that these things have all the fluids properly drained and flushed, right?

e46s have a LOT of baked-in dilemmas. Most of which BMW fixed in the next generation of cars without losing much of any of the magic.

I would, and did, choose an N51/52 powered 128i over either. Just as fast as an E46 330i, way cheaper to run than the turbos.

Got to admit, those wings look delish!

No they won’t. Boeing is literally too big and too important to the US economy to be allowed to fail, never mind MADE to fail. That one company is something like 10% of our total foreign exports most years. And FAR too important to too many Congresscritter’s districts - and re-election campaigns.

Build quality at cheap Chinese toy levels is not what I look for in a $100K car as well. My Model S traded his first one for a new one because, and I quote “it felt like it was going to implode”, and the second one was WORSE. He very happily has a pair of E-Stangs today after getting fed up with four Teslas in total…

So how do current sales of the S and X compare to historical sales? IIRC, they have never sold in particularly large numbers - maybe 100K a year? No $70-100K+ cars do. How they sell relative to other company’s cars is not really all that important, and certainly Hyundai doesn’t make anything comparable in price. How…

Equally, there is no reason it won’t. Time will tell. <shrug> At some point I expect people will get sick of blocky gray cars with delusions of butchness. Minivans are an EXCELLENT example -they were super hot, what all the suburban Mommies wanted. Until they fell out of fashion because they were associated with…

One of few accurate things about that movie!

Once the wings are stalled and not producing lift, the airplane is basically a funny-shaped, rapidly accelerating (downward) brick. And swept wings are sort of inherently evil things. Necessary to go fast, but the margin of error between flying and not flying is very, very slim, and once you aren’t flying, getting…

The stall was recoverable until they got into the flat spin, but I like your approach! Though “First Class” in Russia? :-) The sleepy pilots just plain screwed the pooch and did exactly the wrong things when the airplane was trying to tell them “hey stupids, stuff is fucked up here”.

Money can’t buy good taste. <shrug>