I’m 100% with you, but don’t pretend the majority of M3 owners have ever been to a HPDE in their lives. 

There was a one owner E36 M3 coupe with all receipts for all dealer maintenance in Virginia posted on Hemmings, but looks like it sold today. Asking was $10,500 negotiable.

This is a bad opinion spoken like it’s from someone who’s never gone as much as 8/10 on a New England backroad even in summer. Load up a 500hp car at speed around a hairpin and hit a tiny pothole at the apex and you can reconsider this at that point. RWD is great but we’re not talking about 300 hp here, we’re talking…

These look absolutely *nothing* alike. If your only criteria is it goes across the the trunk then Kia stole it from the NSX.

I was looking for a used Elantra and hired “some guy” to find a new one for me. Ended up being about $3k more to buy a new 2020 than a 2018 with 30k+ miles. No brainer - even just to get the full warranty period and better finance terms.

“Get your goat” is literally about stealing goats from traveling show horses

I used to write specifications that had to comply with ISO specifications (shoot me), and you got our construction of language just about bang on. We had defined exceptions for “should”, namely that it was unsafe or would otherwise void a requirement they “shall” do, and required getting a second opinion to not do it.…

Eh, this strikes me as a “different strokes for different folks” situation. I would never call with the ultimate goal being to ask “where are you really trying to end up on this” and I’d never pay for a PPI where I wasn’t prepared to go at or close to full boat if the car was as represented (I also don’t love some of t…

I’m honestly a very down to earth guy and I’ve been nothing but polite to you even if we have disagreements. There are not a ton out there - no - but I’m not a bajillionaire, just trying to live the gated manual dream now that R8’s are priced into the stratosphere. I get one shot at this, so the stereotypical warning…

I’m already in touch with someone where I’m intending to buy their 456. This car has been on and off craigslist for over a year (these pictures are actually from winter 2019). I had no interest in looking at this car a year ago and I have no interest in looking at it now for all the reasons I gave you. I don’t need to…

And as an aside, there are plenty of loaded as fuck people who buy cheap, shit examples of nice cars and do the bare minimum, because they’re total fucking cheapskates. The rich are different in a lot of ways, but being a cheap bastard isn’t necessarily one of them. They just have nicer stuff to cheap out on. 

My dude buying an old V70 is nothing like buying a $60k+ Ferrari. On a V70 people just care what work was done. On a Ferrari, people care about what work was and wasn’t done, when, why, and by who, because it is usually indicative of bigger issues or future issues. A flip where the guy put under 400 miles on it is a…

The DB9 is not remotely in the same league as the Ferrari and Lambo. For 5k miles a year, it will still hurt the wallet, but maintenance and repairs on those is probably $.50/mi instead of $1 for something Italian. The Porsche will be less but it’s not like OEM rotors and pads will be a whole ton cheaper than a grand…

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