All the 550 spyders I’ve seen are on a tube chassis. 

No idea - my pocketbook doesn’t rate test drives in 200k cars. But if it was super floppy I’d hate it. They did used to race the hell out of them so I dunno...

Dunno - I have an air-cooled 911 and was looking into whether I’d rather spend my money on a speedster replica or a real 356 coupe, and did a fair amount of reading. From what I remember - overall, people much preferred the tube chassis variety and cited handling differences. Not an engineer, but I’m pretty sure even…

Yeah but you’ve removed the roof, which is a major part of the overall stiffness. Imagine an egg, and how strong that is, now cut it in half with the open side upward. Force coming from the bottom is fine, but side to side and top to bottom is now fucked.

I actually want a replica speedster - but here’s the thing. I’ve heard really bad things about beetles cut up to look like speedsters. Apparently they flex to all get-out. So I’d rather pony up the extra money to get one of the better replicas made over a tube chassis. CP.

I only hope we can get our shit together enough to vote this dude out of office and all of his buddies in the senate come 2020. 4 more years are going to be rough. 

I struggle with my own reaction. You’d think that detaining babies and neglecting them would be a line for me where I’d go apeshit - but here I am. My own family, my mortgage, my career, they feel more precious than my self-respect. It fucking sucks.

I know these characterizations are sometimes hyperbolic, but I wonder if people in Nazi Germany felt the same way we feel when things progressively got worse and worse. Did they just wake up one morning and say, “How the fuck did we get here?”.

Lol. 550 is the black white threshold for most banks actually. So you know less than nothing about what you’re saying. And you also missed the point. 

Uhh... real algorithms? Machine learning? Actual models?

There is a ton of discussion about how credit scores are bullshit. And the difference in your story and mine is actually proof of that. Your 600 reflected you still being in deep shit. My credit score at 570 reflected 6 years of perfect credit with one credit card default. I hadn’t missed a payment on literally…

Credit Unions have always been the best place to get fair financing even with less than perfect credit. I’ve been using the same credit union since I was in my 20s. They gave me a great loan at a reasonable rate when my credit was under 600, and now that it’s 800, I remain a great customer for them.

By the time I was 6 years of good credit after a reasonably bad fail in my teen years, my credit score was like 570. On year 7, my credit score, because really - every single decision since that bad one, had been excellent, rocketed to over 700.

I have a 2015 MKVII SE that I bought brand new off the lot in March 2015. I took it in to the dealer for a recall recently and with a straight face they offered me a 2019 Autobahn for $36K. That would be 10K more than I paid for my car 4 years ago, except the Autobahn has full leather seats and the Xenon lighting…

Volkswagen lets me do warranty repairs at my independent mechanic then reimburses me.

This and a Lotus Evora are the only two new cars I consistently lust after.

912s can sound pretty badass. I’d love for someone to go over to Emory Motorsports and tell Rod Emory that 4 cylinder air cooled Porsches:

They’re imposing and elegant cars in person as well. I just don’t see them aging as well as the W215 CL, which was a stunner new, a stunner when the W216 came out, and a stunner now.

Yeah - got it, but it’s still the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. They solved that already, it’s called the CUV. I don’t think it’ll fool anyone if you just rebrand the CUV as a small car and an SUV as a sedan. If people that were buying sedans really wanted the CUV/SUV, they would have gotten them. Because they exist.

So your solution for sedans is to LITERALLY turn them into CUVs. I can’t tell if you’re joking.