Maybe they’ll get their engines secondhand.

Wait, you’re complaining about vinyl padded headlight covers which presumably were standard on that model, while Porsche charges thousands of dollars to cover the air vent slats on the a/c vents in leather? Also, my vote goes to those stupid things they called “Opera lamps” on the c-pillars 80’s Cadillacs. My other…

To me, as an owner of two 2001 TT Quattro Coupes, the hook was the design, and the fact that it was (and for all I know, maybe still is) a car that went from prototype to production with almost no changes. Yes, Freeman Thomas’ design still holds up to this day. A 2001 in good shape is a great car, AWD, an engine that…

“I’m not a Christan asshole...” You’re absolutely right, you’re just a regular, garden-variety asshole. Lighten up, Francis.

Why, does this have to be so unavailable?

I’m fluent. She was discussing the “appeal” of seeing crashes at motor races in that era, and how for some that was a reason to watch. She was asking Mr. York if he was hoping to see an accident, and he replied that no, he wasn’t, but he could understand why it was exciting for some, as it brings out emotions.

“When a company asks the equivalent of the full asking price of a Texas mansion for a car, it’s not outlandish to expect a lack of compromise and a commitment to make unequivocally the best looking cars in the world.”

Portugal. Look at the website on the bus on the right: .pt is the domain extension for Portugal

Hooligan Farkle - Would be one of the best band names ever.

New Ferrari Shooting Brake?

Mmmm, I think that was listed in the catalog as “Warm Pus”

Of course, this scene always gets a chuckle out of me. They are in a sealed submarine, yet when the car pops out onto the beach at the Cala di Volpe Hotel in Sardinia, he puts the window down and drops the fish on the beach. Uh, how did the fish get into the sub? I know, silly me, it’s a Bond-flick, just go with it,…

“The Audi A7, 20 years too soon.” -

The successors would have sold better, but now the exclusivity is intentional: Audi brought in only 2,000 B7 RS4’s, and less than 1,500 TT-RS’s. Both had only a 2 year run (2007-8 for the RS4, 2012-13 for the TT RS) I live in South Florida, one of the world capitals for exotic cars, and I have seen exactly one other…

I’m in the travel business, and for me, $100-200 to change a name on a ticket is beyond ludicrous.

Exactly. Don’t want people to recline? Don’t make the seats reclineable! Doesn’t take much. I don’t give anyone shit if they recline in front of me, and I expect the same if and when I do.

But in the context of when those movies were made, it is perfectly acceptable. It’s only campy when viewed with a 21st century lens. Practically every action/adventure movie back then was like that, you need go no further than Bond movies of that era.

I would have been curious how McKenna would have compared it to Grand Prix which came out in 1966. The parallels are there, in that Jim Garner turned out to be a hell of a good driver in his own right, and they featured a lot of professional drivers, and Frankenheimer was brilliant with the close ups and split…

She could’ve been, she had one of the bad Southern accents. She looked like she just left the set of Real Housewives of _______ (insert the name of your favorite podunk southern town here).

Ah yes, “Bentayga” should roll so mellifluously off the tongues of its owners in New Jersey, Boston, and Long Island. Like the time I ran into a woman at the wonderful Christophorus Restaurant at the Porsche Museum, who told me she was there with her husband to take delivery of their new Macan Turbo. She prononced…