The R34 GT-R, assuming you can get it into the country legally, isn’t a problem at all to maintain. Just take to it any knowledgable Nissan dealer.

Petroleum will be extracted, of course. But as demand decreases for gasoline with the increasing use of electric vehicles, petroleum companies simply won’t be refining as much gasoline, which will cause gasoline prices to rise, which will decrease demand for gasoline-powered cars, which will further decrease gasoline…

I don’t think gasoline will be refined in any substantial capacity 15 years from now. Diesel, sure, because there are applications (mostly involving transporting goods) that electricity hasn’t found a way to solve yet. But gasoline? Nope.

The average age of a car on the road today is about 12.5 years. So people are holding on to their new cars for well over a decade.

We’re in the middle of a pandemic of an airborne virus that’s most likely going to pass HIV as the fourth deadliest plague of all time this year, and people are recommending that we live closer together and get on mass transit together. Absolute brain worms.

But if you’re a typical car buyer who’s looking to hold on to their purchase for 12-15 years, why would you buy into technology that will be dead long before then?

Right, but this isn’t something like a 60's vintage GTO or Charger R/T, with beautiful styiling and classy interiors. It’s got an exterior largely indistinguishible from a Ford Probe. It’s got an interior largely indistinguishible from a Celica. There’s nothing interesting about this car other than the potential of…

Isn’t the main draw of these how robust they are for modding? I get the draw of an unmolested example, but when something is specifically known for being moddable and the price is super-high because it’s unmodded, then, well... you can’t mod it, because that would ruin its value, so you’re just left with a 25 year old…

Battery technology is changing faster than that. Gasoline refining is going to start declining sooner than later. 

The Coyote engine in my Mustang would vastly benefit in fuel economy from automatic engine stop/ start. It’s mileage in stop and go traffic is atrocious, although it’s ok on the highway. Counterpoint is that I hate automatic stop/start.

I’m personally interested in this car, and thankfully there’s an Alfa dealership about a half-hour from me. Even though it’s identical to the Hornet, Alfa has been giving out pretty incredible lease deals recently -- for the reason you mentioned -- so it’ll probably end up being cheaper than the Dodge version with the…

No AC? Every single picture has the half-doors — does this car not also have full doors with, like, glass windows? Is this for real?

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They’re identical cars with different front fascias, wheels, and dash trim. The only difference is that the Alfa only gets the "RT" engine, a plug in hybrid with electric AWD.

My very first car was a 1983 Chrysler LeBaron station wagon with fake wood panels on the side. I remember what it looked like on the exterior, but I have absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the interior, or how it was to drive (other than that the button you press on the automatic shifter was broken, so you could…

I’m sorry; in what way is a four-door sports sedan with an MSRP of $82,000 not a “luxury vehicle”?

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The comment I was responding to was about Lexus in general having “the dynamics of a wet sponge,” and this is just as true of the GX platform mate of your 4Runner as it is of an RX. Offroading, obviously, is a different beast that can be fun in a different way, and is less dependant (although still kind of dependent)…

There is no world in which an M3 can be considered “spacious.” And BMW has to fight hard against physics to make an M5 outperform an M3, which was kind of my point.

It’s clear to me that the people voting NP on this have never actually driven one of these. The hard top clanks and rattles like it’s made out of broken timing chains, and the transmission is among the worst I’ve ever driven — even new, it felt like a manual with broken syncros. CP at any price; buy an S197 V6…

San Andreas was always my favorite, and when it was re-released in 2021 — yep, still my favorite. The fact that the map was old didn’t matter; the game itself played wonderfuly. I’ve never once played GTA Online, but I just finished the single-player GTA campaign for the third time on my third separate platform: PS3,…