Since 1999. There are enough 240s left to provide some indication of their past prevalence though, so I wouldn't doubt it. But these days they far outshine the Volvo V and XC70 lineup.

Every town in Vermont has the same unofficial car: a five-year-old Subaru Outback. It's currently the generation above, and before that, it was the one below (which you still see quite often), in that green-on-tan combination.

You know that game where you pick one single car to use for life? I would still pick the E24 BMW, but an AWD, manual F-Type coupe would probably be the winning answer to that question.

He could get an M5 or something, or any sort of sleeper. If you really want that combination, build your own car. But right now, you can't get extreme speed and sensation without flashiness, so observers can't really be expected to ignore him just because he'd prefer that people not look at his $200k car. This is a…

Hmm. This could potentially be very messy legally speaking. Hopefully there will be some kind of follow up.

Erm... Sanctioned by a government, yes, but the reason this continues is because the Chinese judicial system has reviewed each and everyone one of these cases and found "no similarities" between the original creations and the knockoffs. Gotta love it (unless you're someone who has some modicum of honor).

...Have you played anything made in the last ten years on the computer, as opposed to the consoles?

Because Chinese courts, try as they might, have found there to be no similarities. Just like how their stealth fighter is nothing like an F-22.

I'm with you about automakers trying new things, but the GT-R was just an update in an already-successful 40-year-old model. Impressive, but hardly revolutionary. Regardless, I do agree with your point about automakers daring to be different.

Damn - the interior on the silver one was beautiful.

Okay, bumping a thread from ages ago here, but do you still have that E30 Touring?

I wanted to do a conversion like this for my EM2 Civic, just 'cause, and that exact car/image was the inspiration for what I wanted it to look like.

Incredible. Rear seats for people who not only lack legs (the way most two-door cars built before 1990 are equipped), but also apparently an ass.

To each his own, I guess. I always found the first-gen XK to look unmistakably dated, like that style of Taurus that tried a totally new direction but then realized it didn't work.

BMWs, if they aren't neglected, are far cheaper than Subarus to maintain. And bonus points for not melting themselves at 150k miles (unless you have an E39 with the M62TU, in which case the timing goes at that point with similar results).

Not at all, given that those are mid-engined, Lotus-designed and Lotus-built roadsters, and the Soltice/Sky are softer, front-engined roadsters designed years later.

The Zero actually looks fantastic. I would take that over a stock 458 any day. And hey, if you're paying that much, you might as well have them build it without some of the imperfections and strange design cues, but on the whole, the design is pretty good.

Yeah, but then you'd get a game like GTR, uknowingly turn up FFB, and it would try to throw you out of your chair as soon as you started driving.

Anyone with a Logitech G25 having flashbacks?