I guess that’s just it though, it’s a luxury trademark.  It’s like if Coach started making athletic wear or something.  It just feels a bit wrong.

Fair point.

In other news, water is wet and fire is hot.

True, but you’re also in snow to begin with, so I’m not sure the width is really doing you any favors.  The thought I had with using double front tires was mostly just that it was already Viper wheels, so it would be “easy” to do, relatively speaking.

The reason BMW’s driving aids suck? It’s the ultimate driving machine, not the ultimate riding machine.

While I’m always at least mildly interested in any new supercar on the block, I feel like they’re really missing the mark here.  Hispano-Suiza was a luxury car company that made stuff that held up to Rolls Royce standards.  Why in the world are they looking at the supercar market?  They should be going after Bentley…

Any car in my possession would be the short answer.  71 Vette (first car), 67 Dart with a 5.7 Hemi swap and Viper T56, or 04 Viper.

So funny story, I once went looking for snow tires just to see what were the biggest that were out there. The stock gen 3/4 wheels are 18/19 front/rear. Front section is 275, rear is 345. The widest snow tires I could find were something like 275 or 285 and I believe meant for some Porsche, so I have always thought…

You’d be fine as long as you pay attention.  I’ve driven mine in basically everything but accumulated snow with no issues.  You just can’t drive it like a race car when the conditions aren’t appropriate.  I’ve been caught in snow on the way home or a random flurry here and there, but nothing that stuck to the ground. …

Really maintenance is next to nothing on the engine.  Oil just costs more because you have a lot of it and typically want to use a better grade just because.  Studies have shown it doesn’t matter much as long as you change it regularly, but I still like to put quality stuff in at least.

Yeah, they are pretty much bulletproof. Granted I think a lot of that is actually because I use mine. I get more worried about something going wrong when it sits in the garage for a month without being used than when taking it on a long trip. Granted I think modern cars can take longer term storage better than old…

Really any car with regular maintenance could probably do it. The main car killers are corrosion or lack of part availability. Regular washing can help to slow/stall corrosion, but even then some cars just have a bad habit of holding water where you’d rather they not.

For the second question, you’d be better off buying artwork. Cars are meant to be driven, the ones that aren’t often have more problems than they ones that are. If you want to buy a car to basically park it and hope for the best, but a nice painting and do the same. You can enjoy it every day and be much less worried…

I joke that I just follow the appreciation curve with my mileage depreciation on my Viper.  Bought an 04 something like 6 years ago and used it as my daily driver since then (well, until I got married, then my wife’s Malibu took a fair portion of the duties on poor weather days at least).  Odometer is currently…

To me it’s gotta take the cylinder count into consideration.  Any V8 under 5L for me would be considered pretty small, though a 5L inline 4 is gonna be massive.  A 5L V6 is pretty big as well.

An 8 liter V10 in a motorcycle transcends “f’ing huge” and goes right into “ludicrous”.

I think the most basic reason is probably competition. Other companies with cheaper cars will try to make their cars nicer while still being cheap to steal away buyers that want more for less. That’s why a Camry, the appliance of vehicles, is a really freaking well equipped car today vs a decade or two ago, yet isn’t…

I can’t say I’ve ever experienced something really traumatic like this might have been, but I would think the first thing I would do would be to take something like that off. Either while still in the street or as soon as I got in the door of my dwelling.

Humourous catch: you can only drive on them in an EV.

Not that I am attempting to justify the crazy alarm business as I’ve never heard of that before, but I half wonder if they aren’t doing it as a safety precaution like trying to scare away anyone who might be hanging around to mug someone or steal a car.  I know it’s a huge stretch, but I could see someone walking out…