Tell me more about that Riviera sitting there in the background, just like the farm car your wacky aunt in Des Moines once inherited.

I’d rather have one that had done expected mileage. This reads like it’s been parked for years / driven a bit / parked for years / etc.

I hope they make sure to also include under-designed timing chains and associated tensioners, oil passages that become easily blocked, plastic impellers for water pumps, and - oh - just all sorts of other plastic stuff that wears horribly and has about a 10-year-life...because their business model demands catastrophic…

Indeed. Also: “What’s the difference between a tariff and a tax?”

Porsche still lists the Cayman GTS 4.0 on their configurator. That’s hardly a surprising future classic choice, but there are so few interesting / enthusiast cars left to choose from.

And you still get that stretched iPad across the dash, just like a Chinese rental car!

Meaning of Pyrrhic victory in English - a victory that is not worth winning because the winner has lost so much in winning it: She won the court case, but it was a Pyrrhic victory because she had to pay so much in legal fees.

Those are good benchmarks, thanks.

Always heard the Route Napoleon (from the southern coast of France up to the north) was one of the best drives in Europe.

This awfulness is part of the reason BMW’s share price is about where it was 10 years ago, even though the company’s production has increased around 15% since then.  

In about 3 years some representative in Georgia will start using all of these tropes to run a reelection campaign on Youtube.

My summer daily driver is a 1990 964 with 275,000 on the clock.  If you look closely, you can see stone chips and faded paint.

Appropriate time to insert your BMW-drivers-are-the-worst jokes here.

Completely agree. But the white sneaker / golf-shirt crowd only cares about the thing they’ve been told to care about, which is certainly not actual driving dynamics.

Indeed, fellow 911 owner. The most annoying thing about having a ‘rich-guy’ sportscar is that automotive experts love to explain just how awful your ownership situation is, explaining how their depreciation nightmare SUV is so much more practical, reliable, etc.  

Demuro is a dick. He’s a know-it-all ass. He spent an entire review of a Maserati shoving the thesis that people who buy cheap exotics - not him! - are doing it to impress other people.

The arms wide open like Oprah Winfrey on the cover of O Magazine, for the millionth time:

I drive between Colorado Springs and Denver on I-25 often, and several months back I noticed an abandoned Tesla on the side of the road. No big thing, there are always cars left in the breakdown lane for a few days. What was unusual was that this Telsa had all of its windows broken out after it sat about 48 hours —…

How many times have we heard the story about the timing belt that breaks right after its 100,000 mile replacement interval?

All of these dog-eating Haitian immigrants living in Ohio are going to crash the auto industry.  I guess that’s why Ford stock is down 20% in the last six months.