Elon Musk has claimed a cost of $62 million per launch in the past

You’re gonna find a one-owner manual TT roadster with under 100k miles for $8,000? Good luck with that. 

A lot of people would rather have a single family owned car for $15k than a 5-owner for $10k. CP for me (I’m in the latter group) but this isn’t total crazy town.

I said it was like watching a pro sports all star game. It didn’t count for much, no one really wanted to get hurt, just gentlemanly racing as a show for the fans. It was sort of cool, but also pretty lame. I didn’t hate the idea but the field was too big. Maybe have it as a traveling show once during mid-season with…

That’s correct, but this is from the EPA website, which adjusted old FE to current standards shortly after they made that change. The window sticker rates them as 18/25. 

If I do some extended pulls, I can literally watch the gas gauge go down

Point of comparison for a car that was considered thirsty 18 years ago. It’s honestly an embarrassment that Subaru can’t get this together. 

I really doubt you used the fore-aft slider control - or any single control - more than 90 seconds in a 5 minute window. I’m a definite seat fidgeter too but that’s crazy talk. It doesn’t expect you to have completed the process in 90 seconds, it expects you won’t use any individual control for that long, which…

Honestly fuck Tesla forever, but if you’re in the driver’s seat and have been adjusting it for 90 seconds within the span of 5 minutes, you shouldn’t have been driving the car to begin with. Seriously, use a stopwatch to get to 90 seconds, it’s an eternity.

I must have misunderstood the point you were making, which seemed like “why does anyone spend a ton of money on ITR’s when a RSX-S is just as good.” And my point was a super low mile RSX-S isn’t gonna be $15k.

Word of advice, any rotary that has made it for this long is bound to keep going for a long time with the sort of miles you’re going to put on it as a weekend cruiser. Rotaries are bad daily drivers, but perfectly usable weekend cars. Get them now before they’re S2000 prices. 

I totally disagree with this. I might not be about to spend $100k on an Integra, but a museum quality 240Z went for what $350k last year? And they made way more 240Z’s.

A sub-10k mile RSX-S that’s so stock it has its original tires is $50k no fuckin sweat

The thing about F1 cars is it’s not the car that’s expensive, it’s actually the support. And I don’t mean tires and maintenance, I mean stuff like having the equipment to preheat the engine to operating temp just to start it. Tolerances on F1 engines are so tight they’re seized at room temp. There is a lot more that…

The lease takeover makes sense to me because then the whole business generally runs on monthly/per-rental and per-mile cash flows, instead of the more conventional assets/liabilities/depreciation AND cash flows. Ultimately calculating a residual for an owned asset that you might only want for 3 years and probably finan…

What’s fucked up about this is it’s actually not the worst idea for a legitimate business 

300hp sounds a lot faster than this car actually is, which has always been one of the issues with 348's. It’s not slow, but it’s not fast.

You could maybe drive it a year and sell it for a little more (it’s a little overpriced based on current market conditions), or you can have it lunch a belt and end up with a $10k rolling chassis. If you do a $15k engine-out, you ain’t getting that back in appreciation after a year

This is a hard pass CP. Driver’s 348's were in the high 30's a year ago, and just from the description this needs $10-15k in work just to get to that point. To wit, an OEM windscreen on 00's Maseratis is about $5000-6000 installed. My money is on a PPI documents another $10-15k of repairs if not more, plus another…

This could be inscribed in the arc of the covenant it would still be wrong