As they should. Overrevving is 100% user error. Hitting redline is the engine’s method of preventing overrevving. Mechanical overrev is what happened with this car, apparently multiple times. One can mechanically overrev their engine without experiencing immediate catastrophic failure, also knows as a money shift.…

Nissan is fleeting. Altima is forever.

To be fair, Hyundai has known about this part for a long time and has/had  chosen to leave it just like it is. Like losing virginity to a partner who casually mentions the day after that they tested positive for syphilis a week ago and maybe check with a doctor. Just spoils the mood. 

Funny how things like that level of frustration can really trigger you. You’d think watching my dad take two weeks to die of a stroke - slowly losing himself piece by piece, day by day, in front of my very eyes until he withered away to a husk - would be my worst day. But somehow, it wasn’t.

Every bit of enthusiasm I ever had for it has been permanently extinguished.

I completely understand. When I buy beaters, I do not care much about nicks, dings and fixes. When I buy a new car, if it takes any damage in a collision or demonstrates a failure point, it goes straight from the shop to autotrader. New cars are supposed to be perfect for a lot longer than a year and a half. Once…

There was a time long, long ago when manual cars had better MPGs than automatics.

Excellent write-up. Yes, a car breaking down at a crucial life moment, when you’re really depending on it, can sour a relationship. I’ve bought enough troublesome cars to know that.

This article reminds of of trying to find online recipes and reading someone’s life story before getting to the point.

If they’re not willingly paying the ‘market adjustment’, are they really as wealthy as they think they are?

Maybe he didn’t want to wait over a year for PTS or perhaps there were no PTS allocations at the time. PTS is a flip of a coin. One month, they’ll have 2 PTS allocations, then no PTS allocations for 6 months, but allocations for the regular colors are available. That’s just how the Porsche factory operates.

Uh, maybe not you. Certainly not I. But lots of other people do, many here in sunny South Fla., just to save the paint on their expensive cars from the unrelenting sunlight.

I do wonder if the wealthy take “market adjustment” more willingly than us plebs

For street driving the wing does nothing more than attract attention and hurt fuel economy. Removing it for the street and bolting it on for track days seems like a perfectly logical thing to do

$300k + $200k “market adjustment” probably. 

Look at it as paint protection for that (maybe) paint to sample order.

It’s been a thing since the firs gen RS, to the point that there are companies making trim panels to give it a finished look when the spoiler is taken off. It’s a nice look I think, it was the Touring before Porsche invented it. This one looks nice too.

The guy didn’t get a 911 ST allocation. Far be it for me to tell someone what to do with their $300k car. At that level, they can do whatever the fuck they want and us broke motherfuckers can sit here and judge. He can’t hear us over the glorious 9000 RPM induction noise.

It seems like this is exactly what the 911 S/T would be for. Maybe the owner had an allocation for a 3RS but not an S/T and wanted to meet in the middle

I use my sick hours when I want, sick or not. If you don’t want your employees to use sick days, then you shouldn’t let them have it at all. Then watch your staff move on to other companies that respect employees more than you.