It’s a shame you don’t know WTF you’re talking about.

Planning for almost two months of almost no business is not a normal economic event, even deep recessions don’t do that. And yeah, not every business is wholly successful, some are struggling, and some are impacted by this more than others.

Jeezus, why so much hate for a stupid roof rack? Apparently none of you live within 300 miles of a ski resort of ever go mountain biking. Did you even bother to look *where* the car is located. And the damn things come off in like 5 mins. The cars come with little hatches on the roof that you lift to expose the…

Here in Oz, you’d giggle with glee if some wood duck gave you $5k for Crossfire. Lack of aftermarket and dealer support makes these more of a liability than anything else. Despite/ because of the Mercedes underpinnings, these never had any real popularity here except for the fake Rolex crowd.

My mom’s got one of these in droptop form, that she bought new. Six-speed, she wanted the 100 extra horsepower you got from the SRT-6 (aka, 32AMG) but said “no way” to the automatic.

CP, because I am a mechanic at an independent Euro specialist and hate these things.

Black Death isn’t a a factor on this engine, but it’s actually worse. Oil cooler seals that you can’t get to leak, starving the engine of oil. Turbo seals wear out and sling oil into the intake, which is promptly carbonized by the EGR system. Carbon and coke builds up everywhere and seized moving intake parts such as…

Well, he’s also restoring an Esprit and a VW bus. Is that up to your standards? He got the RR for free and he wanted to teach himself how to do this stuff. I'd call it a success. 

They’re extremely dangerous to Porsche’s profit margin, yes.