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    Agreed. During my first trip for car week I noticed the more mismatched my outfit, the more the folks seemed to accept me.

    Get you outta the grey there good sir. I’ll be leaving 6a.m. tomorrow to head to Laguna to help set up the Red Bull area, and drivers club. see you guys there!

    You’ll be in Cali this weekend? Holy cow, maybe we’ll bump into each other. Coming to Laguna Seca, or just Pebble?

    Nah, Pebble all week. I’ve got to schedule track time for it though — just been really busy.

    The model you outline (dichotomy between low profit/high satisfaction and high profit/low satisfaction) dealers is instructive, and it’s pretty spot on in big markets (metropolitan areas with lots of dealers competing for the same brands or brands that are generally seen as competitive with each other). That’s because…

    Generalize much? SRS systems and seat belt systems work VERY differently depending on the manufacturer and year of the car involved. While I agree that “some” cars operate similar to the manner you described not ALL of them do. There’s a lot of vehicles out there that don’t have pretensioning systems. There are also…

    -You can’t tell the difference between an alternator and a turbo

    That we know what car you should buy.

    That we, in our free time, want to fix and/or modify your car for free. Usually this happens while you hang out in my garage, touch everything, and spew car diarrhea from your mouth that is incredibly inaccurate. Your cousins exboyfriend did not have a mint 9-sec Fox Body, ever. I would have known about him and the…

    Absolutely more enjoyable. if it were LHD, it might be a keeper. I think RHD makes it just annoying enough that I won’t want to drive it all the time over the long term. Of course, for some people RHD is a benefit because it makes it more authentic.

    $18-25k depending on the quality, mileage, etc.

    Don’t believe the un-hype. It’s a joy to drive, and I usually can’t stand cars without a third pedal.

    There is some valuable advice mixed in with a lot of nonsense in that post. GT-R values will drop, no question. Part of that is because there are newer cars that can compete and part is because of the newer GT-R’s improvements, which devalue the older models.