If he can really deliver the Model 3 for $35k before rebates with decent range and performance IMHO the whole game is changed. If he fails we can revisit this conversation but so far the man has a pretty good track record of delivering what he's promised.

I had an ’88 1/2 model and it was excellent. It’s a shame that the poor quality of assembly and materials of the ’85-’87 cars did them in because the ’88 was what the car should have been all along. It had just 29,000 miles on it when I bought it in ’93 and it served me and later my mother very well. Like the SM I…

My dad had a gold SM like the one pictured though his had a vinyl roof. Amazing car in both every good and bad way you can imagine. We finally sold it because we couldn’t find a good mechanic at the time but I wish we had kept it!

At least in America you are going to have a hard time convincing a jury that your Renault got beat up after you entered a parking garage rather than before :-).

Some of us Americans are proud to call ourselves Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys!

I think the EPA and the FTC (remember they lied in their ads too) are going to hit them pretty hard and the Justice Department will likely pile on as well. Will they be fined $18 billion? Probably not but it would not surprise me if the fines from EPA and FTC top $10 billion and there will likely be some criminal…

Since when have diesels been considered enthusiast cars? Or are you talking about big pickups used for hauling race cars? Personally I am not worried about the future of performance cars. The Tesla P85D shows that electric cars can be just as exciting as gasoline-powered cars, if not more so.

Well these guys are known for reliable engines...

I’ll do it without any silly clause. Heck pay me $30 million and I’ll stay on as long as they like and take not even a box of pencils when I leave. IMHO it’s a myth that only a very small class of people can run large corporations when I suspect the opposite us true, it’s actually something most people could do given…

One slight correction, while passport and non-immigrant visas will not be processed immigrant visas, green cards and other items related to legal immigrants will continue to be processed because like the Post Office immigration is 100% funded by applicants. So if you in the process of legal immigration or need a new…

I don’t think “Speedbird” is all that bad, it’s British Airway’s call sign after all.

Back about 1994 a friend of mine owned a Modial T and a 512TR. The Mondial was by far the more reliable of the two, in fact he had virtually zero issues with the thing while the TR was constantly in and out of the shop. So perhaps while the Mondial is not the most reliable of cars compared to a Modern car in the…

So you’re saying that the analogue Iowa-class battleships are basically this? By the way in addition to being totally analogue the Galactica’s main weaponry consisted of rail guns firing dumb mass projectiles with no warheads or anything.

Man you are temping me to shelve my current restoration project and add to my fleet once again instead. It’s a constant tug of war between having one or two nicely-restored cars and a fleet of unrestored but drivable automobiles around my house :-). BTW if you know if a nice but reasonably-priced Delta Integrale or…

Portland/Seattle/Vancouver is by far and away the best places to look for old Peugeots and other weird French cars.

It’s not like the Aussie version is never on TV, I just watched it this summer in HD and it was excellent.

I’m the king of towing with rediculously inappropriate vehicles. 1950 Ford F1 pickup on a 2000 lb car trailer pulled by a V6 ‘80s S-10? Check. 1926 American LaFrance fire truck on the same trailer pulled by a Travellall? Check. But my all-time record was towing a 1961 Corvair on a U-Haul trailer with a turbocharged…

Now if someone could just answer the question “So What the Hell is America Doing in Syria Exactly?” Because I can’t make sesnse of our Syria policy at all. I’m a liberal guy and generally supportive of the administration but even I can’t figure it out. We’re supportive of the Kurds but not too much so we won’t anger…

I’m quite envious, I’ve wanted a 205 GTi ever since I worked in France back in ’89 - ’90. I have a friend here in America that has both a 1.6 and a 1.9. I keep hoping someday he will sell one of them but no luck so far!

Not at all. First of all Peugeots were assembled by Frenchmen, not clueless Americans in Toledo. Secondly we raced a 505 turbo in the 24 Hours of Lemons 5 times and finished every race once as high as 21st/108. I’m not sure if any Renault has finished a Lemons race and if one did I imagine it involved many hours of…