This must be at Miller Motorcars. The used car section on their website is hilarious. They keep Cullinans in the back lot. “Oh the 812? Yeah we got some new inventory in. Move that to the garage, we’ll put the Huyara in the side lot so we can put the DB4 Zagato in front”

I work tangentially to the insurance business (not auto, but still) and it bothers me immensely that mitigating the carrier’s risk too often is the responsibility of the insured. In some cases it makes sense (i.e. if you have a huge hole in your roof, you can’t just say you want a settlement before you put a tarp over…

Hey here’s an idea, Geico buys all the vests and charges you for them in your premium, if the manufacturer can remote activate/deactivate it they should be able to confirm to Geico that you wear it and then they credit you back $12/mo on your premium.

YOLO: buy a Maserati spyder and save $5-10k for maintenance

It’s hard to say if people would rather say “I see they’re back to their old tricks” or “I see they’re still up to their old tricks”. Let’s not pretend Ford didn’t have massive quality and rust issues that were only “figured out” within fewer years than I can count on both hands. Credit where credit is due though:…

Without trying to sound like I’m 70, it doesn’t sound like you were around at the time. The GTI went from being a relatively affordable and tunable lightweight car with decent reliability to the then-untunable and unreliable 2.0 in a car that was 600 pounds heavier. Plus the body lines were definitely, shall we say, mo…

I knew far more VW tuners than Honda tuners when I was growing up and that was during/after the early F&F’s. I don’t think F&F vastly changed preferences for people who are currently in their 30's, but it might have for people in their 20's. Tuning in general is just on a significant decline, because a base 1.5T…

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…