“For a car-like thing that is supposed to cost north of $40,000, a $100 deposit is nothing. A proportional deposit on a $100 purchase would be 25 cents.”

As someone who owns a vintage Italian exotic that they sold orders of magnitude more of: Hahahaha!

Don’t love that they have diluted the Mustang brand name but I disagree it’s the first extension in 55 years - did Ford forget the Mustang II (or hope we would forget it)?

I literally cannot tell you how disappointed I am that I am in Chicago and just ate dinner in my hotel.  And that it is so close.  It’s on my list for next time.

Nuclear airports with steam catapults.  What could go wrong?

“You may think that BMW’s core competency is its famed chassis tuning, smooth engines or seamless gearboxes.”

I was literally about to call my friend at BMW SF to order the LSB one until I saw it was DCT only.  C’est la vie.

Same, but California.

As a G owner, I approve this comment.  :)

My mom needs basically the same thing - except she has to have a wagon and doesn’t want anything that reads as an SUV. Which really limits things. I thought a Regal TourX but not fast enough or nice enough.

My father fought in WW2. I don’t know how accurate this was, but his view was that scrap collection, victory gardens, and the like were a way to help keep people on the home front invested in the war, rather than a necessity. In other words, taking a part off your car wasn’t going to actually make more tanks, but…

Should have read the article first. But I just got back from my Italian car mechanic who called the Giulia QF “reliable for an Alfa” - right after I took this shot.

https://jalopnik.com/car-and-drivers-nightmarishly-unreliable-alfa-romeo-giu-1836770591

I live in SF and there are probably at least 1000 people fully naked outside RIGHT NOW.  The city, for sure.

I’ve got a deposit on one and despite sending neat literature on it every couple of months I am not going to get excited until I see the final production form.

I don’t know what to tell you man. The fact that I don’t like the NSX doesn’t mean you can’t like it. It’s a cool car. Sometimes people like different stuff than you, ya know? And for reasons that can be valid. I still think they look cool when I see them on the road.

It’s certainly still a quick car. I had mine from when they were fairly new until recently so it’s tough to say how someone driving one for the first time today would like it. Maybe if I’d driven the NSX in period I would have loved it (but I suspect not - I had a new S2K that I traded for the M because I didn’t…

True enough. Although I just flipped to C&D’s test story and their had its first major issue at 2400 miles.

It’s a late production 2018 I picked up in November last year. Have about 3500 miles which consists of 2 trips from SF to LA and a bunch of driving around SF, plus short distance commuting within SF. I bang on it - so much so that when I needed a new front wheel and tire last week I got all 4 tires in part because…

80 days of downtime in 14 months is totally unacceptable even for a new car in today’s environment. I admit I haven’t read all the articles - if this were a privately owned car would it have been eligible to lemon? Seems like possibly yes at least under CA law.