I’m not gonna pretend to have watched every F1 race since the dawn of time, but my view on it was Max had better track position, was further ahead, and could complete the corner in a manner consistent with a pretty standard racing line. Hamilton can’t say any of those things. A reasonable spectator would look at both…

Wow they really straight up ripped me off there

Not sure why they’re tearing it down, now that the road is closed just hit it with a truck going the other direction

“Unprofitable company in dying industry attempts to make nominal sums of money, customers outraged they can’t be ripped off by scalpers”

no

NP but not collectible. These and the RX300 were some of what ushered in the advent of crossover hell. Regardless of capabilities, they were purchased as “anything but a minivan” substitutes, and to serious collectors that’s all they’ll be remembered for. You can tout its intentions all you want but you’re not getting…

I spent 10 years practicing forensic structural engineering, and read the report you mentioned, which said basically none of these things. “Potential for decay” is not remotely the same as threat of imminent collapse. There was nothing in the report that suggested water ingress came from anything other than a swimming…

Buy the seller, not the car. NP

The 8c is a no brainer, the 4c could go either way. If they sold it in manual it would be a classic already. But they sold dozens of amazing F1/DCT cars, and a lot are still on the way down. They can’t all come back up. 

They did say carbon neutral, because not even god can claim to produce entropy-neutral power. Even the Flintstones weren’t entropy neutral.

Saying the S3 is comparable to an ILX is like saying a fiesta ST competes with a corvette

Bingo

It’s really hard to argue a front bias Haldex AWD system is a true sports car. It’s almost more like a rally car. I have a RX8 as my weekend car, and that’s a real sports car next to the S3. I love both of my sons but the Mazda is the sports kid.

Audi doesn’t really have a direct competitor to the 2 series, and BMW doesn’t really have a direct competitor to the A/S3, so we can both be right on this one. 

If a Miata had a laggy 1.4L turbo at 20# of boost and was $65,000, that’s correct absolutely no one would buy it.

The S3 in its current form is literally the perfect DD. Absurdly comfortable, fast without being suicidal (weird that cars that can break into the 12’s in the 1/4 with a mild tune are suddenly just “acceptably fast”), perfectly sized and proportioned, great seats and noises... only downside is front-bias AWD instead…

There has never been a manual S3 in the states unless you generously count the Golf R. But honestly, with a fairly high pressure turbo on a tiny 2L / 2.5L the DSG is better suited to the task. I say this as a S3 owner that exclusively owned manuals for like 20 years before this. And the RS3 would be a statistical dog…

This is so great. I want to do this so bad. I’ll see what they offer and then put $5,000 on top. “Oh KBB is just the suggested market price, we have a market condition adjustment”

Eh, fully owned in-building spaces in TriBeCa range from $400-650k last I looked. 

TPMS sensors don’t last the life of any car.