I know the tech personally. He worships the QP. It preens in response. I bring my own Maserati OEM filter. The oil used is Castrol Synthetic of an appropriate weight for the season. I change it every 5K miles. The car runs better every week, and I drive it 1K per month, though I am retired.

Truth is, I had to stop driving ten years ago because of a brain injury, so my comments reflect the BiTurbo era more than the current ones.

That’s a great quote. There’s also a similar trend among Italian sons who live at home with Mom well into their 30s so they can drive balling cars, have mom do their laundry and eat cold spaghetti out of the fridge after getting home from a night out. 15-20 years ago I had an Italian girlfriend from Long Island who’s…

I’m probably the only one on here who will publicly proclaim CP on this car, but I will. According to fair purchase prices this may be a good deal, but I’m considering the level of maintenance that goes into this. Anyone who can afford to put that level of maintenance into a nice car can afford a car more expensive…

I want to agree with you... but I went through this debate.

I bought one (Quattroporte) and really decided I’d rather have my cadillac. While I planned on selling my cadillac and driving the Maserati, I ended up selling the maserati shortly after I got it. Here’s why:

1. I said. “Man I wish this was a ferrari” outloud…

It’s sleek in the same way a football or a Toyota Previa is sleek.

That is one event that is permanently etched into my mind. I woke up to a friend calling me:

“Turn on the TV!”
“What? Why? It’s like 6:30!”
“Just do it!”
“Ok. God. What channel?”
“Any channel.”

I remember that; and the way he said it. It gave me chills. He was right. Any channel. Smoke pouring out of one of the WTC…

Yes. We have a 928 S4. Every time I start the car is like defusing a time bomb. Sigh of relief every time. But man, is it awesome to make it roar!

The acutator arms that move the headlights up and down are held onto both ends with little circlips. Unbeknownst to the owner, the circlips can come off after years of up-down, up-down. So, one day, you turn the lights on, the arm slides off the little bar connected to the headlight, and it punctures the radiator.

Like any 911, buy one that has a good service history and keep up on maintenance, and actually drive the damn thing, and it surprisingly isn’t that bad. Of course, it will be more expensive than a normal car, but my dad’s 1986 5-speed has been very reliable ever since he started driving it regularly. Sure it’s had a…

I spent the summer of 1994 driving around Europe in my dads 928GTS, on the morning of my 20th birthday that year there was box at my nightstand when i woke up, in that box was the keys to the car, the keys to our house in the south of france and an amex-card. There was also a note with only three words on it: “Have…

It is German and old, it will work fine until it doesn’t and you will pay.

No and yes. In the mid 90s I bought one for $12k, and sold it 7 years later for $12k. Drove it daily. So not expensive to buy, and no depreciation. I did spend between $1k - $3k per year maintaining it (probably $10 k-$12 k in 7 years) - but in a fanatical way - everything that broke I fixed with the best parts I…

World’s longest timing belt says “yes”. It’s over 80" long.

Despite the engine still being in the back, the bloated and more GT-like 911(991) has ironically turned into the 928 meant to replace it. That’s why some prefer the Cayman, regardless of cost or being the “icon.”

Porsche tried very hard in the 80's and 90's to make a few cars that were new and original from a design perspective. Porsche buyers would have none of it. They eventually gave up and decided that they could build any type of vehicle they wanted as long as the 911's styling cues were dominant.

There are two sides to ever story, but it’s usually damning when one side refuses to tell theirs.

My favorite theory is that the cyclist had family ties to a cop, who turned a minor incident into unlawful revenge-confiscation. As others have pointed out, rich people with lawyers are probably the wrong target for this sort of thing.

Unfortunately, this type of confiscation and abuse of power is only more likely to happen. We’ve become a country where laws have been passed based on status to circumvent due process. So, if you’re declared a drug dealer, a terrorist, a street racer, an illegal immigrant, etc., your stuff or your liberty gets taken…