When I bought my ZL1, I spent about two months hunting dealers to find one that would sell at MSRP.  Went to about two dozen chevrolet dealers before finding one that would put it in ~writing~. The alternative was piles of deposits and praying. I can’t blame someone for trying the “I’ll throw in offers on 3 cars I…

The roadster was announced 6 years ago. The semi the same. Cybertruck almost 4 years ago.

Ghibli: Bigger, more luxury options (it felt better - we looked hard at both of them), more horsepower (and you felt it), better engine note (at least to us), better expectation that the brand will exist in 5 years for maintenance.

You found eggs?

Amen at that. I remember the early ones in Texas in the panhandle area when I was a kid (had family up there) - you all were bleeding edge there.  

Turn Wyoming into Yellowstone and one big wind farm.  

Which is, again, every BEV out there. The I4 M50 (a 4 door sedan) weighs 5000 lbs.  You can’t make them light right now.  

4800 lbs ain’t that bad.  the number you’re referring to is GVWR.  

All EVs are heavy as hell.  

Yup - that was a symptom on the pre-TU engines too.  

Get one a two years newer - the 2013 got the N63TU engine vs the original N63, which fixed many of the reliability issues that the N63 had (PCV system ate itself, EGR system ate itself, first gen hot-v ate itself, half the underhood ate itself from heat (wrong materials and locations), and so on. Most of those were…

Get one a two years newer - the 2013 got the N63TU engine vs the original N63, which fixed many of the reliability issues that the N63 had (PCV system ate itself, EGR system ate itself, first gen hot-v ate itself, half the underhood ate itself from heat (wrong materials and locations), and so on. Most of those were…

I have a 2014 550. The one tip here -

Get one a two years newer - the 2013 got the N63TU engine vs the original N63, which fixed many of the reliability issues that the N63 had (PCV system ate itself, EGR system ate itself, first gen hot-v ate itself, half the underhood ate itself from heat (wrong materials and locations), and so on. Most of those were…

There’s always something compelling about “it’s fast enough, good enough, and I know it’ll just kinda keep running...”  I’m approaching 100k on the best vehicle I’ve ever owned - and with German engineering, a twin-turbo V8, and more electric bits than I can shake a stick at...  there’s fear starting to percolate.  

Those are options.  This was apparently optioned with “black all of it.”  

Um, yes? Has for pretty much every hurricane, major earthquake, blizzard, war, etc... Turns out those things are both pretty resilient and, well, stupidly powerful - plus as a broadcast medium, bandwidth is effectively unlimited (since you’re not talking back, just receiving) so you don’t have to worry about it being…

The TLX is a bit on the soft side, more of a true GT than what this is aiming for I think.  It’s an excellent vehicle but less sports-sedan and more sports-GT (imho).  I’m in for this if it comes out good. 

It’s fuzzy - generally you don’t get to count the lease payment on taxes unless it’s heavily biased for work (this is something I actually wrote a research paper on a few years back), but I can’t remember the exact breakdown. With the way tax laws have changed, mileage reimbursement tends to be the greatly-preferred…

And the edge cases like me that have oddball actual range requirements - The model 3 is the only thing that comes close to my needs right now, and I can’t stand the interior design on it.