I agree, they're dwindling quickly. I see one now and then, though, but I think half of them started in LA to begin with. It was a weirdly good match for the times, but yeah, see waaaaay less of them than I used to.

Late 80's baby - can confirm: literally never seen one.

Hah, I see a 505 almost every day around the evening rush hour as I walk to the grocery store. It's the same old red-wine colored one every time, driven by an older gentleman who would not strike me as the old Peugeot type. He must love the car - it's pretty rough around the edges but it sounds like it runs great.

They've been pretty much banished from Los Angeles, they're just deeply, terribly uncool. I bet a lot of them are still parked in sleepy, underwater suburbs, though.

I hadn't even though of this. As soon as I saw those pictures, I realized I haven't seen one of these in LA, that I've noticed, in a couple years. They dropped off quickly after the 20+ year mark, apparently.

I've always had a soft spot for the LFA precisely because it was weirdly out of place in the supercar world when it debuted. We're in the midst of a decade-long horsepower cock-measuring contest, but instead of pulling out a tape measure, Toyota went and specced an insanely high-strung naturally-aspirated V10 built by…

The notion that you need to have the cheapest car insurance possible is problematic in and of itself. Car insurance is one of the few kinds of catastrophic insurance (aside from health) most of us will have to use in our lifetimes. Do you really care about saving $200 a year versus getting 10-20% less, or worse, a…

Someone with a strong understanding of used car economics in the Northwest.

I'm not sure what I just watched, but I think I'll watch it again.

ITT: Defensive and confused Fiesta ST owners.

On the one hand texting & driving = bad. On the other, he's pulling over people who are otherwise stopped. I check my phone if I'm in bumper-to-bumper gridlock or a long light. It's not hurting anyone. I would be pretty miffed if I got a ticket for it, but luckily LAPD has way better things to do.

I'm pretty sure the car has had a full respray, too.

1. The 560 SEC's interior has clearly seen better days - it looks bad even cleaned up. I am not inclined to believe that is original paint, either. They don't mention it (yet do mention original wheels / radio), so I assume it's a respray, and it probably looks nowhere as good in person. Pass, pass, pass.

much lol was had here.

Honestly, even at 6'1", if the flight time is less than 3 hours (so, <1500 miles), fuck it. I'll buy the cheapest ticket. I don't care if I'm crammed into a tiny seat, as long as I have my phone, tablet, and headphones. I've put up with a United Express ERJ-145 where my head is practically hitting the ceiling if I'm…

I don't know. The Nurburgring being much more challenging makes it less a test of the car and more a test of the driver, doesn't it? The Ring is really about having lots of knowledge about the track / balls of adamantium. The TG test track would probably yield much more consistently comparable results, even if does…

89k on an early-model base Cayman. I'm sorry, no. It's just not worth the potential headaches. It's the slowest Cayman, the interior on these cars was decidedly Audi-quality-esque (nor does it look anything near "flawless" on this example), and while it's a perfectly good car, for $22k it's not a great one. This car…

Fixing the L-mount actually just made it worse on my girlfriend's car. It appears the engine is now shaking everything more efficiently instead losing force rattling in that loose mount.

My dad had one. My sister had one. My girlfriend has one.

FYI on the Global - that's one of their "heavy duty" knives. Unless you're a chef or strongly prefer heavyweight knives, there's no reason to buy it. The standard G-series is, in my opinion, better for its lightness.