C&D reported how this dethroned the McLaren Senna around VIR at a fraction of the price. Can’t wait to see it run the Nurburgring to show the Mustang GTD what it’s capable of at half the price.

He didn’t ask for financial advice. Before you go around suggesting all those things, remember that $1200 is life changing in a third world country. You can give that to someone and change their life, what is stopping you?

If you think Porsche is bad, wait til you see the fun on a used 12 year old Ferrari. At least the Porsche is somewhat reliable to begin with.

As a fellow Mustang owner, that’s a stupid hill to die on.

I’ve done what you said in the past but it’s not feasible with current interest rates for new car loans/mortgages close to 7%. My long term cap gains are taxed at 20% + 3.8% NIIT so I’d have to be making more than 9.2% on my investments for me to come out ahead. And that is the risk free rate, which is a lot higher…

The most surprising bit is the part about hydrogen powertrain. I would have thought carrying both hydrogen and oxygen (unlike the Earth where O2 is free) to the moon would make it a worse option than a battery that can be charged using solar panels.

All of what you said is based entirely on (uneducated) opinion. Cars do not need to communicate with each other for autonomous vehicles to be safer. You have two eyeballs, a car like Waymo has 29 cameras, radar, LiDAR. From a pure input perspective, it’s already got you beat - you can’t see two cars in front but radar…

Nah most people are happy to complain about the dealer ripping them off and having to pay over MSRP due to lack of inventory.

“Unlimited” shouldn’t require a fine print. If Hertz doesn’t want people abusing their cars then they should just put on a high limit like 5k miles. You can’t try to advertise unlimited and then be surprised that someone will take you up on it.

I think they’re not targeting the Turbo S this generation. More like the gap between Turbo S and Vantage.

It’s smaller. This website complains non stop about how every generation of vehicles grows by 1 inch but can’t comprehend smaller vehicles.

SF90s are definitely possible to buy as first time owner if you have a friendly dealer and you are willing to tack on $200k+ in options. Ferrari themselves say about 1/3 of their sales are to first time owners.

First time owners aren’t going to get an allocation for an 812 Competizione. He’d have to buy used and get killed on the markup.

That’s how all loans work. Early payments mostly go towards interest, not principle.

I’m not sure if this is sarcasm but they absolutely are. Go ask at any dealer and 80-90% of Ferrari owners are “entrepreneurs” or other individuals too embarrassed to disclose their blue collar upbringing and just happened to strike lucky. 

DuPont asking prices isn’t the same as transaction prices. I am very familiar with this market and real value is probably mid 500s for private party, trade in is definitely in the 400s. The ones getting killed the most are those that optioned their SF90s into the high 700s-800 range in order to get a faster allocation…

This comes up all the time on the topic of watches. Someone claims they made a connection with a client because they noticed their $30k watch. They don’t hear about all the other clients turned off by their spending habits.

I used to think that too but someone pointed out I also wouldn’t trust a lawyer running surplus office equipment driving a 1990s beater Civic. I think there is a happy medium in there somewhere in the region of Camry to 5 series.

So you don’t have to sit on the same toilet seat as the help.

I’d argue the opposite. So many of Tesla’s existing and potential customers are alienated by Musk’s support of Trump and a party that does not support EVs. Teslas were selling because of the cool factor and they lost that completely.