Well look at mister fancy here!

Explicit permission is not required, only that the previous rightful owner renounces all property rights to the object in question.

Thank you - I must admit I was pretty happy with it.

“In the United States, if the owner of a property has renounced all property rights in the object, then the property is abandoned. Since theft is the unlawful taking of another person’s property, an essential element of the actus reus of theft is absent.

This seems like a much better candidate for rescue and rehabilitation than one of Tracy's fifteen Cherokee-oxide hybrids. For one, it's small and doesn't leave fluids/particles of itself wherever it goes...

Fair enough. I would argue that it's gone past uncool and back to a point where it's cool again.

That’s the other option. We’ve got a “street trailer” - a neighbour has it for work, we let him store it at our place because we have the space, neighbours can use it as needed. I can’t think of a time in the last five years when two different people needed to use it at once.

No love for the MGA at all? The car that was originally designed as a Le Mans prototype and then turned into a road car? That made sportscars accessible in the US post-war, and made club racing popular?

Thanks, but no thanks. The opportunity cost is too high, I’m looking at investments with greater utility.

He may have some storage, but it’s likely already full of cars. He would need another space to store this one, and the average cost of a parking space in Monaco is €377K, per (https://news.mc/2021/02/07/garage-space-may-cost-as-much-as-a-supercar/).

I agree completely that they do. But I also think it’s not necessarily a good way of choosing a vehicle, because you are liable to end up sacrificing at least some of what you *want* in a vehicle in an effort to get everything you *might* need. And as a result everyone drives pickups with the bed empty/SUVs with a…

Your example is almost the definition of a corner case. 

An appreciating asset with consistent associated costs. Between storage, maintenance and insurance costs, is the price of F40s rising faster than those costs?

A sensible idea.

Precisely. The arms race approach to automotive safety ends up with everybody losing.

I would counter by suggesting that it wasn’t at all clear, and that if you wanted to know that has changed recently you should have asked that question.

The negative (from JLR's perspective) would be that they're not getting any money for it, I suppose.

It truly is a labour of love.

You literally asked “What has changed over the several decades this occupation has existed?”. Why are you surprised that he explained what has changed over the several decades the occupation has existed in response?

The Team Formerly Known As Sky (and less Formerly as Team Ineos)?