I’m keeping an eye on 456’s and this is priced to market or just slightly high considering the modifications. The fact that the guy bought it to do the maintenance and flip is a huge red flag for anyone looking for Ferrari’s. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s an accident car, or if it has something random like “the…

They’re meant as a nod to F40 wheels, it’s not an uncommon thing to see on 456’s. 

Ehhhh I get what you’re after, and yeah some of the stuff they do will look dated 10 years from now, but Joanna is better than you’re giving her credit for. Home design and the expectations of buyers is much more sophisticated now than it was 5-10 years ago. She is really a pioneer for introducing the need for texture…

I think it’s perfectly fine for EV’s to be “not for everyone” at the current juncture, but in my opinion 150-200 miles of range for people with at home charging solutions should be fine. That’s enough to pick up probably 75-90% of people who are using it to commute, and gets you a good 2-3 hours of highway driving for…

How about you need to use geolocation to use the App Store (much like if you want to use in-app gambling), and if you’re in North Dakota the App Store just won’t work. 

Saying the GT helps Tesla sell model 3’s is like saying the R8 helped BMW sell M3’s. Just a totally fatuous argument. They’re not the same cars and they aren’t marketing toward the same buyers.

Any standard finish should look good for the wheels, as long as it’s not plastidip. Oh god, please not plastidip

I believe this is only somewhat true. It has to be a similar vendor for the type of loan, in a relatively brief window, and usually after 3-4 pulls they assume you’re shopping for additional credit (meaning if you qualified for a $20k loan why not try $25k? 30k? 35k?). Multiple pulls from the same vendor is also a red…

Public too. It’s still fairly rare. I just looked and it looks like they’ve gone up significantly on eBay in the last couple years. 

Yeah, they gave them out at the Toyota booth at NYIAS. I still have my copy (and I wasn’t press)

Neutral: we’re in sight of 2000 levels of weird, but aren’t there yet. That was 6 cycles ago though. 

$10 / hp is UNBELIEVABLY cheap by tuner standards

I’ll go NP because not every car is worth fixing the right way, and this is one of them. Just get it operable, maybe rattle can it, or just go wild and do something sacreligious like sticker bomb it, or rust and seal it. This is mainly a money pit if you’re trying to do a reasonable job of restoring it. Just get it…

Great article, tom. There’s fortunately been MUCH more popular awareness at least in NYC in the last maybe 5-8 years for getting the subway more accessible. There were supposed to be some accessibility station modifications done in a few stations near me, and MTA sort of unceremoniously nixed them. As I recall people…

Some of this is true, some of it is truthy. I don’t think Ferrari and Bugatti use DCT technology because the cars can’t handle the power. So making it sound like they can’t do it is totally untrue. I’ve also vastly preferred maintaining a manual to an automatic which is some of the reason I’ve kept buying them even on…

I’m going back and forth on whether I want to any tuning. Haven’t totally decided yet. ECU work doesn’t seem cheap relative to other cars I’ve worked on. The other part is I’m expecting I’ll be doing like 20-25,000 miles a year in this thing, so mileage is definitely not a trivial concern to me. It’s something I’ll…

Yeah, it’s pretty much “enjoy it while it lasts.” Everyone assuming there will be even a remotely strong market for manuals forever hasn’t driven a current-gen DSG. You can get a $20,000 Kia with better transmission tech than a 10 year old Ferrari. It’s insane. And this leaves out the whole “EV’s will eventually make…

I’ve driven manuals for 15 years now, and I just got an A3 with the DSG for my daily. It’s pretty great. I’ll probably get a fun weekend car with a manual but day to day you really get the best of both worlds with a DSG. They can gear those so unbelievably short because it can shift so fast, that even a like 128hp…

I hit a pothole and bent an oxygen sensor on a SVT focus. That car was such a piece of shit it took me over a month and jacking the car up some 5-6 times, not because of anything I did wrong, but because by the time I had fixed where it was broken, it broke somewhere else. I had to drop half the exhaust to change the…

I’ve read a couple articles on today’s proceedings and this is the only one that had that quote, which is weird. Seems important to include that. I’m not sure what I think of this going to a jury, because I worry that instead of applying the law in a way that’s reasonable to a regular person they’re gonna treat it as…