Hrm, interesting. My house has doubled in value in 5 years. Checks notes, my income is unaffected by the value of my home. My taxes, have gone up.

I am not affected. I wfh. My salary has gone up since I bought my home. That is not the case for a lot of people. If I sell my home, the equity I have from the value…

And your point? They were not conscripts. No one forced them to work a job. They chose to. They have a right to their opinion. It is exactly that, an opinion. Everyone on here is to have their own opinion about them. Funny how that works isn’t it?

I wfh. My ranger gets 21 on the highway. I am dying because we keep getting 75 degree days, but there is salt on the roads. I don’t care that my Viper gets 8mpg. I don’t care that it takes premium. I just want to drive it.

If I was commuting 5 days a week this would be a different story. Gas guzzling sports cars are a…

Not true, look up the SR-71C. It was an sr-71 static model and a YF-12 that were mashed together. Then there was the B2 Spirit of Washington that burned to the ground in 2010.

Any aircraft can be rebuilt. The real questions are, is it cost effective and do you have the money for it?

As a 10sp ranger owner, its ok. It does not like being cold. Sub freezing temps even with letting the truck warm up before driving result in some really hard shifts. Once it is warmed up? TBH as someone who hates automatics, its actually pretty nice.

I would say the 8 speed I had in the colorado was smoother, but less…

Popups are interesting. Some cars look better with them up, others look worse. My Mondial QV has pop ups. I do not think it is a particularly attractive car. I do not really care about the pop ups from an exterior perspective. From the driver’s seat though? I love them. There is something very satisfying about…

Have a 2nd gen viper. Kinda wish I had gone a gen 1. Gen 2 viper is not something you want to daily especially as an rt/10. Gen 2 is faster, has door locks and windows, but the foldable top eats up the whole trunk. The hard top reminds you how much the interior rattles. Suspension is better and there is more power,…

Love that the Mondial made the list. The hagerty valuation is a joke. 36k gets you one with a lot of needs. 30k gets you a non runner Mondial 8. They have been shooting up over the past year. Thing is they will keep going up. They are the cheapest Ferrari and all the other ones shot up.

A miata can be used as a DD pretty easily. This cannot due to lack of storage space. Looks and handling at the limits aside unless this is a second card it is a headache.

Slow? Certainly, but speed is not the end all be all.

8 years ago I bought a cheap bike from walmart. Was using it to ride on a local paved bike trail. It fell apart. Final straw was one of the gears breaking during normal riding. The bike wasn’t abused. It did not go off road. It was just cheaply made junk. That was a mid 20 year old using it for light exercise.

It would…

As a MO resident who has to deal with safety inspections, EH.

The number of clapped out cars on our roads is just as bad as say Indiana where I never dealt with them. In theory you have to get a vehicle inspected before selling. Having bought a few trucks that were practically death traps with passing inspections, it…

Yes, your Lexus is all of those things.

I do not have a prancing pony keychain. I have a Manual Gearbox Society one that mimics what a Marenello one looks like. I am also waiting for my cheapo chinese Shrek Donkey center caps to come in, because why not embrace how slow this car is.

The car gets you noticed, less so…

I feel you. My Mondial QV is slow, and awkward, but it is an event to get into. What people don’t get is the sheer cost of parts on these. That much of it wasn’t built to last all that long. Do you want to rebuild a steering rack every 10k? No? Well Ferrari used a plastic bushing that wears out because, Ferrari.

The…

Because there is a good chance it sat for a decade or more. My car did. Something pricey broke. Owner parked it. Finally gets around to fixing it, something else breaks, cycle continues.

Oh sweet baby Jesus, you have no idea. Was recently in the market. Ended up with a 100k mile mondial qv with some service history instead. I wanted a car to wrench on. Mondial is a better gt car than a 348(already have a mint low mileage viper for around town)

I did the opposite. My dealership experience was a 11k mile 99 rt/10. Got it over the summer. Prices on BAT for similar condition have been higher than what I paid from the dealer. My auction win was for a high mileage mondial qv.

Now owning the mondial and paying attention to the facebook groups and forums,…

I bid on cars this year on BAT. Did not win. I ended up buying one through a dealership out of state. I won one off of Hemmings.

Learned a lot. BAT was more expensive than finding a similar car at dealerships if you looked. Hemmings was cheaper, but the car I won was a risk.

The experience of buying online vs a…

Viper handles just fine.

Oh lord, started writing a whopper of a response, but its just too wordy.

To cut this short on your example. A new infotainment system for my 30K+ truck is several thousand from a dealership. I looked into upgrading since mine came with the base one and I wanted android auto. It is plug and play, but has to be…