I'm not a rider, but man, do I love this sort of stuff - wailing on wankers, pointing out cliches. I've watched enough these sorts of videos, not necessarily bike-related, to add my own.

That's the proper way to buy a rare care. As opposed to what I did:

Doug: Please go lease a luxury/exotic car and incite a riot in the comment section from guys who make $23K per year telling you you're RENTING a car! "See this '99 GMC Jimmy? Paid cash. You on the other hand are BORROWING your Maserati/Porsche/Bentley (...)."

"The automakers are basically operating in a legal form of collusion to keep automobile prices where they are and not truly based on a comfortable level of profit for the company."

Raphael: Look at this m4 owner being an asshat.

It just needs the timing chain tensioners looked at and upgraded if they aren't already.

2004 S55 AMG - 493 HP - BUY IT NOW for $9,999

Unfortunately cant get dat spoiler in the US. We got gen-2 996 GT3 with pedestal spoiler.

If anyone wants hi-res images of those pix give me your email address. :)

That's one of the things I like about Jalopnik is the commenters. They're usually pretty intelligent and even when they're not it's not like uber troll bad. I don't really care about Miatas or wagons, but when I go to other car sites (autoblog, others) that do cover cars like Lamborghinis and the new Mustang, and…

In CT, sales tax increases for vehicles > 50K USD (6.35 vs 6.9 or 7%, cant remember)

yeah. But this car has insane miles, a transmission nobody wants, the wrong color, a completely unknown service history which means it needs a major service and it's a 2000 which means it's probably on the book for an expensive cam variator upgrade. The differences are massive. Btw my carmax offer was $64k.

"5 door family hatch backs?"

I love how everyone always screams bring it to the US. Just like with the TT RS which was cancelled after two years because people were not buying them. I don't think there are enough enthusiast in the US that are willing to put that much down for a hatchback or small sedan. I wonder how the CLA45 AMG is selling…

an I4 is in primary balance (the inner two pistons move together, and the outer two pistons move together, canceling the primary forces.) But because the pistons are all reaching TDC/BDC at the same time, and because they don't move sinusoidally, an I4 has a second-order vibration (2x the crank RPM.) Thus many have…

I had an excellent time with Matt in Arizona recently, on a road trip in a Hyundai talking about how he and his Lotus team helped tune the new Genesis's suspension so it DIDN'T drive like a steaming bowl of egg noodles. The next phase at Aston Martin would be a great place for him to land. He's a car guy's engineer,…

Yes. I see it all the time. As do other attorney. Buy a car, swap out the instrument cluster, drive it a year or so and sell it. HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.

But it works out to be 5.5 in a C5... or about the same as putting gears in the vette... so no big deal.
The hardest part of the whole deal is actually the porsche dashboard. Thats where I see most people screw it up.. The hardware for everything else is tried and true.. putting a SBC of anykind backed (fronted?) by…

As an owner, I assure you, that isn't the case. I just took ownership of one after it sat for 25 years, I cleaned the contacts on the coils, changed the oil and it fired right up. I'm now restoring it from chassis up, and I can honestly say, disassembling the entire car into individual pieces is easier than doing a…

They make cars for old farts like you.