I compared used to used, same cost. Please read first.

Once again, that isn't the real concern for me or many automotive enthusiasts. Which boring car that wont get you laid isn't the problem. If you're already going boring, go all the way and atleast save money with a clear purpose. Driving a POS boring car makes you look lame, so atleast in a Prius everyone knows why…

First off, Im comparing 'enthusiast' vehicles vs hybrids, not a base model accord vs a hybrid accord. Sure I can get 33mpg highway driving a semi boring car, or 45mpg driving a full on boring car. I was comparing driving what we tell ourselves we love to drive that gets less than 20mpg, vs a hybrid. Also, if you can…

He actually survived that, to later die in a head on van collision... what are the odds.

Both replies may have missed that I AM a car enthusiast. I even make decent money. But there's just this part of me that realized that listening to my V8 exhaust note, and accelerating from a stoplight 2 seconds faster, isn't worth $20k extra for every 100k miles driven. I may be a car enthusiast, but I no longer want…

You may all laugh at the beige here, but I think the Day of the Hybrid has come. I am a jalop. I've replaced transmissions, even rebuilt an automatic trans. I've installed lockers. I've changed head gaskets. Hell I even welded a broken tierod once and drove 300 miles on it (slipped a socket over it and welded both…

Why does this one look different than the replica ones? I like the curves on this one much more. The 550 is still my favorite, but if the 356s looked like this Id like them also.

If you are worried about privacy, pay with a prepaid credit card you get at walmart, and create a fake name and everything associated with that name. As for the address part, that might be tricky.. I dont know, get a mail box? So if the FBI needed to backtrack you, they probably could.. but for 99% of reasons you…

Salary info always makes me think either all my friends are lying to me, or salaries of people that make a lot of money are averaged downwards as to not upset all the poor people. I cant judge because I work in sales, and luckily outperform the average by far, so I make a multiple of most people. But most doctors…

'Order of importance' is up to you.. but fun cars from the group are the Mustang, 300ZX, 3 series bmws of whatever year your budget and taste dictate. If you look HARD you can find an E36 M3 if you can fix up a few things or deal with knowing you'll be working on it soon. Hell, if gas mileage doesnt matter, some of…

I have no idea what you meant by that. They will stop trying to make profit on the sale because 'youre ordering a car to your specifications'?

I was in court for a random infraction once, and it was amazing the number of.. sad to say but true.. poor people hit by DUIs. And I mean hit hard. I somehow wasn't called from the list so I sat through HOURS of people going to the stand, and the rich dudes with a lawyer got things reduced a bit, took their several…

There should be a skills and reaction test instead. My sober grandmother is way more dangerous than me after 2 beers. My sportscar going 85 is way less dangerous than an Rv doing 70, yet theyre legal and I'm not. They should change the 'Speed Limit' to an 'Energy Limit' and the lighter your car is the faster you can…

"Look, Im not a car salesman because I wear jeans."

What makes you think that a Manufacturer owned 'store' will do away with all those practices? Like suddenly a manager of a store will say "You know that 50+ years of proven profit generation methods.... I dont think I want any of that, because my paycheck is written by GM Inc instead of Penske Automotive Inc'. The…

At around 17, my 280Zs ECU freaked out and filled all the cylinders with fuel. I lit half my engine bay, my driveway, and a good chunk of my lawn on fire trying to fix it. My plan was to pull the plugs, fuel pump fuse, and crank the motor over so that the piston push out all the fuel. It worked. The fuel sprayed out…

I sold Audi A6s and A8Ls in this price range, and about half are leased, with payments from $750 to $1100 a month, so when I heard about the Model S I seriously considered it a strong contender on price alone, and as soon as they work out a REAL lease deal (with sales tax advantages, writeoff advantages, and real…

Residual values for S-Class, 7 Series, A8L are well under 50%. They are known to be pretty terrible. And those are 'wholesale' residual values, what a bank buys the car back for, then sells it do a dealer, transports it to the dealer, dealer than reconditions it, and then still makes 2-5k on. So what he did was attach…

I think they fixed the problem just right. The A4 sells, the A6s sells, they all sell. The A3 was a pretty up market small car. And as cliche as it is, who wants to spend $35k (avg a3 cost), pull up to their new gf or girl they want to impress, or coworker, or whoever, and say "now look at this thing!". It just didn't…

A salesman will say that everything sells well.. if they have a ton on the lot its because they sell so well the manufacturer gives them tons to sell.. if they are out because the manufacturer ramped down production due to low sales, then omg were sold out because they sell so well. Overall A3s sold at much smaller…