Agreed. We love our Flex.

As indicated above: Proportions.

About nein dollars.

Sure, it could work that way in theory, but I highly doubt the vast majority of 84 monthers fall into this subset. You and I both know the overwhelming majority are payment buyers who are trying to impress others.

2006 Cadillac STS. Was in the market for another Volvo (was about to sign the papers) when my brother in law offered to sell me his low-mile STS for half what I was about to spend on the CPO S60.

It’s...fine, but I should have bought the Volvo.

To say Iowa flies under the radar would be an understatement.

Because those “low level airplane mechanics” are the ones responsible for maintaining all those complex systems that, you know, drop the weapons. They NEED to know those details.

I’m not upset, just surprised that you’re just digging yourself deeper with your abject ignorance on the subject. Just stop.

That’s not how it works, and you obviously don’t know shit about the subject.

The B-1Bs at AMARC, if they’re not destined to be eventually pulled back into service, are being used for parts. Only 100 B-1Bs were built; compare that to, what, 700+ or something (I forget the exact number without google-fu) B-52s of various models?

The B-1Bs are more valuable more or less intact. The B-52s are…

“In all fairness, you don’t really know that those B1-Bs aren’t nuclear capable.”

Don’t forget a completely new avionics suite to bring it up to regulatory compliance- 8.33 kHz spacing on the radios, ADS-B, TCAS...

Loads of fun.

CP, but I would most assuredly NOT want a Chrysler Sebring.

I feel like this comment was the main point of the article, and you were just lying in wait like an angler fish...using a glowing orb to lure some poor schmoe into taking your bait.

Alfa Romeo 164.
Not at all reliable, but with its low, low purchase price you’ve got plenty left over for repairs/maintenance/a couple parts cars.

“You will blow the trans, it’s just a question of when. You can even do some track events in it.”

 There may be some correlation there.

Emphatically, yes.

Oh dear lord. My parents bought one of these (‘85 model, like the ad) with the Iron Duke 4 and not a whole lot else, new, when I was 10.

My dad, who has always been a “buy new and drive it into the ground” type, dumped it after three years, 45,000 miles, three alternators, and three sets of brakes. I remember him…

David Tracy writing about wrenching on three Saabs simultaneously would be a thing of Kinja beauty.

Or, alternately, you could do a little internet research and find the 9-5 was made in fairly large numbers virtually unchanged from the 1999-2009 model years, a good portion of it was bog-standard GM parts, and those that weren’t are still readily available, and they’re cheap enough that you could buy a whole other…

One of the cool things about Saabs is that they managed to be fun and engaging despite being front wheel drive.

My 2002 9-3 HOT was more fun to drive than my e39.

There, I said it.