Actually you have it backwards. Options are the parts of a Porsche that depreciate the most. Even with a Boxster or Cayman you can easily add the price of a very nice car in options alone, and you will never get that money back. They won’t show up in the blue book valuation, which is the best excuse anyone will ever…

Big difference: Porsche’s got better in the 991 incarnation, good enough to go up against the likes of Lexus in JD Power’s surveys. No major Achilles’ heels have shown up in the 9A1 engine or either of the transmission options. The jury is still out on the C7, but the quality of the powertrain in particular is not…

To say the materials in the Porsche are higher quality would not be an accurate statement.

*It was literally a no brainer.*

Clearly, the important thing is that you’ve found a way to feel superior to both Corvette drivers and Porsche drivers.

Translation: “Wow, those people are pricks. I’m going to let them dictate what car I buy.”

If you’re a licensed mattress repairman whom I’ve called to diagnose an intermittent problem with my box spring, then sure, knock yourself out.

Crashing cars in the Taco Bell drive through?

No kidding. Back when I owned a less-reliable car, I practically had to beg the techs to drive my car enough to reproduce whatever intermittent problem I was reporting that week. I wanted them to drive it to lunch, even take it home, if that’s what it took.

(Shrug) You can be the best at building missiles and win against everything else, even if you’re flying a Piper Cub.

In my experience, yes. I bought an admittedly-expensive car a couple of years ago by writing a check for it. The dealer insisted on running a credit check for a “backup financing” application, to be activated in case the check bounced.

Why not just print off a spreadsheet that charts the payment versus a wide range of FICO scores, based on the interest rates currently offered? Then tell the customer, “If you’d like me to run a report, I can tell you exactly which of these figures will apply to you.”

Stupid bright with lots of spill

Stupid bright with lots of spill

Speaking from experience, there’s no reason to rent an exotic for a PCH trip. You are just going to spend the entire day trapped behind one slowpoke or another. It will only be more frustrating if you plunk down the big bucks to rent some fancy German or Italian iron. Just take the POS Sebring or whatever other…

It does seem like a paradox, and no, I don’t know how to reconcile it with relativistic terminology. Either there’s an invisible conceptual wall that remains intact, and each driver experiences an independent 50 MPH collision with it, or there’s no wall, just as in the real world, and each driver takes only 50 MPH…

Just poking a bit of fun at your unfortunate use of present tense. :-P

The acoustical losses would be significant, but they’re on the wrong side of the equation — the problem is that there isn’t enough energy to allow each driver to experience their own 100 MPH collision force, not that there is too much.

You should probably put down your iPhone and concentrate on the road, then...

Ironically, those two-lane roads are where virtually all of the deaths happen. Speed limits and other traffic laws that encourage people to get off the Interstate and try their luck on undivided highways are, themselves, deadly.

Physics doesn’t work that way.