You talking about the President or the grooming habits?

When you see me rolling up in this, you know what’s about to happen. I’m about to open the door, and saunter out in my baggy track suit wearing house shoes. I’m here to watch the local co-eds play some volleyball while I eat a concession stand corn dog.

Because the original ABS was crude and prone to failure, specifically the very expensive pressure accumulators. Failure mode in that ABS was essentially no change to braking. I ended up deleting mine and the car was better for it.

What you said times 7! My dad had a Super from new for nearly 8 years. We traveled up and down the east cost in it and it was our only driver. In the 80's he later had a GTV that was his daily driver too.

I am biased but this is a decent price for a Verde. The ABS delete is good (did it to my old Verde), the ARC is known to be a disco light show that rarely works correctly and the other electric issues aren’t that hard to deal with.  The Recaros that are notorious for being worn are even in decent shape.  If the car is…

Good ones of these are asking double that back in Europe. I suspect this is one of those cars that 99% of people don’t get but there is 1% of die hard Alfa enthusuaists who will think this is NP and pay accordingly.

This car would sell for $8,500 on BaT, easy. GTV6s are going for $15k+, with “projects” selling for what well-sorted cars were listed at about 5 years ago. Thanks Jeremy Clarkson, or maybe rust.

Exactly how I see it. A reasonable price for an uncommon and desirable car (is there really anyone here who doesn’t see the desirability of a well-balanced,V6, RWD Alfa with a manual?).

amen

Or... you could take that same hydrogen, combine it with CO2 from atmospheric collection, and use a Sabatier catalyst to end up with liquid methane syngas. Not only do we get net-zero emissions and we get to keep the vroom-vroom, we also get to keep 5-minute fill ups. We already use LNG in a lot of city buses and…

I know we like to rip on hydrogen, but it we find a cost effective way to produce metallic hydrogen, we would have a fuel that could be more safe, more plentiful, better for the environment (vs fossil fuel/battery manufacturing), and current day engines could be retrofitted to use it, which is more environmentally…

The TL:DR version of your post (and I’m a bitter old dude too) is that we get the government we deserve. And we deserve a terrible government because too many Americans are easily manipulated by hot button issues like Mr fucking potato head while Rome is burning, are too dumb to separate facts from fiction, and…

I agree with almost everything you say. But there is one huge difference in how we think about this.

Ask the farmers in South America who have no water how clean lithium is to mine. Ask the average Corolla buyer how much their first EV is going to cost when the lithium demand increases 10x in 5 years and lithium production only increases 3x as projected. Ask the minimum wage worker how they are going to afford new…

Oh good, a hot take from Jamie Kitman. The guy who single handedly caused a mass defection of subscribers from Automobile Magazine, myself included, helped put that formerly great magazine out of business. I’m sure it seemed like a great idea at the time to hire a guy who loathes automobiles to write for an automobile…

This article is merely a continuation of partisan communication. I have yet to see EV or anti oil advocates address impending lithium and cobalt shortages, the associated environmental effects or the infrastructure issues surrounding light rail.

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Matt Farah recently tested the 992 Carrera S Cabrio and stated: (I’m paraphrasing here) that we should reward manufacturers that make good manual transmissions by buying them. Well, here we are... we’ve bitched that the “enthusiast” choice is slowly dying, and that the future will be grim and electric. This is our…

My favorite heat exchanger is my wife, who can somehow pile on three blankets and still absorb all my body heat by touching my leg with a single icy foot.

As a current owner of the old “last” RWD, manual, V8 sedan, I hope this new “last” RWD, manual, V8 sedan sells well enough to prove to makers that they still need to make products for enthusiast buyers. It clearly won’t sell a ton at this price point, but hoping for a 20% manual take rate (and hopefully higher in the…