the maintenance schedule on my BMW’s are cyclical. the maintenance is somewhat predictable. Sadly, BMW (and probably MB, I have no experience) dealers service fees are obscenely expensive. They do a good job generally, but they’re operating in the real of diminished returns.

Way to make a bunch of stupid assumptions that I’m some kind of fucking idiot that doesn’t know how to maintain a car.

I mean. almost everyone does that sort of subjective thing. “I own a X. I had a part Break. Therefore, X lacks quality”.

Maybe if it was 10%/year? for example, you earn 100k/year and you buy a new car every 5 years. at 10k/year for 5 years you can afford to cycle a 50k car.

It doesn’t seem to justify only a $5k price delta. For only 5k more, I’d still go with the Germans for the same thing. I’m a bit of a BMW nerd - but “finishing” the package is important to me. at ~8.3% less it just isn’t worth it. However, I dont know how depreciation values and maintenance compare so cost of…

Isn’t the modern escape/kuga basically a lifted focus?

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Pretty sure I remember honda bois being all about the prelude as a kid.  I even liked it alot until I learned what it was.

Well fuck.

You don’t get it, because it doesn’t affect you like it does millennials.

In drag racing, races are rarely won with skill and much more often won by having the faster car. The argument would be different on a road course.

You need a great car. Done, this one is factory engineered and built to OEM quality standards. Every. Single. Time.

The standard reply of everyone who gets frustrated when they can’t come up with an argument defending something they’re insecure about.  

I guess I have a hard time envisioning the guy who just wants to race his drag car. in my mind, a big part of the whole experience is tinkering and making minor adjustments for incremental gains. If you just buy a setup and go you’re kind of missing out on more than half of what “racing” is. More to the point, simply…

Are those cars really close enough that driver skill yields a large enough disparity in the field? I imagine one of them is the best, ones the worst. the best one generally dominates the top positions.

You don’t need a car like THIS to start racing immediately. In fact, I wouldn’t even recommend starting with this. And if you’re into racing, theres no way you don’t turn a wrench. that argument, that hypothetical person, seems absurd. you either learn to wrench or have enough money to not care - pay someone to wrench.…

Guarantee you the engineers can pretty accurately predict the ET of a perfect run on that car. No engineer has enough information on a home-built car. And the whole “great car, great tune” just got taken out of the equation.

I don’t get it. Can someone explain to me what the point of this is?

Some companies do this.