Cool thing about Hondas is that you can easily swap a VTEC engine in there. K20A or if you want to be more period correct, an H22A will fit in there nicely.

NP. I don’t think I’ve ever given one until now. Considering its age, the body and interior are in excellent condition. I’ve haven’t seen an engine bay from a 1995 Honda that damn clean since the 90s and early 2000s. The owner clearly takes very good care of that car. I wouldn’t care about the odometer discrepancy for…

Porsche is trying to do the same thing nowadays too. I hate that is has come to that.

Ferrari does it. Then again, they blacklist any current and potential Ferrari owner for dumb stuff too.

I wouldn’t consider someone having ONLY $500k and spending it all on a car ‘fuck you money’ either. But I imagine that most people that buy RRs are worth 10s of millions, if not 100s of millions in cash and assets. ‘Fuck you money’ is the money still left in the account after spending $500k on a car, which I imagine,…

Do these averages count collision body work? Or just mechanical work?

Cars and Bids

BaT and CnB are the biggest enablers in car flipping, so it would be against their own best interests to ban the practice. I’d wager to say that those sites make the most on flipped new cars.

Man, I thought that people who can legitimately afford a $500k+ car(no one buys a RR with no options) would be above reselling cars. Resell definition as in buy a car, drive it for a few hundred miles, and sell it when it’s registered after a few weeks has elapsed. So very, very short term ownership.

I liked Subarus back then too. The blue and gold always struck a chord with me. But even as a 2000s Subaru fan, I will not deny Evo supremacy. Gotta give credit where credit is due.

If your kids are children still, it’s probably a good idea get a hard, fixed roof with 4 seats instead. But I’m not in the business of telling people what they should do.

Dammit, you got me.

Ew no. My rule #1 of convertibles is that I don’t buy a convertible if there’s a fixed, hard roof, coupe version of the same car. Rule #2 is that convertibles with backseats are lame. Has to be a 2 seater and designed from the ground up as a convertible for me to consider one.

This is a very Nissan thing to happen.

So Nissan had the base SE-R with the auto(or was it CVT?) 180 HP, and the SE-R Spec V that had a manual only with 200 HP. The car had a ton of torque, but it was top heavy and had a rear twist beam suspension when its competitors had double wishbones or multi-link in the rear. It also looked quite frumpy. I’m not sure…

I wanted one back then too. But I couldn’t afford it, so I’m all the better for it today.

I had a 2007 Sentra SE-R Spec V back in the day. I should have bought a Civic Si or Mazdaspeed 3 instead. This is the only car I regret ever buying. There was nothing class leading about the B16 Sentra SE-R Spec Vs. In fact, they’d constantly lose to the Civic Si, Mazdaspeed 3, and other contemporaries in comparison…

Agreed. The Altima offered more power and features for less money compared to the competition. Back then, Nissan had a relatively good reputation still, so it wasn’t very hard for them to sell these things to people from all walks of life.

For regular-ass people, the L31 Altima. These things were everywhere. Little did we know back then how... notorious these humble Altimas would be 20 years later. Still found in today’s buy here, pay here lots, and finding one today without any body damage is rarer than seeing a LaFerrari on the road. Historic picture:

Even with a hybrid powertrain, I don’t think their cars are going to be any less of a ‘Lambo’ than they currently are. And that’s why I love Lamborghini.