Isn’t “complimentary WiFi” quite de rigueur at all dealerships as well?

Providing a full tank of gas upon purchase is one of the rules. Is this not an industry standard? In the past 30 years of buying vehicles, private or dealer based sales, I have only once not gotten in to it without a full tank. Weirdly, that was a Jeep (see user name), but they also gave me $40 in cash to top off the…

That’s two of the same car.

Or travel back a little bit farther, and tell the proud owner of a new 1981 Lamborghini Countach that, in 2024, a Camry could beat his car’s 0-60 time. 

They’d say, “Word up! They must be all that and a bag of chips!”

Go to the 80's when a Mustang 5.0 was 222HP and anything over 200HP was Big Power

An engineer friend was offered a job at the Boring Company. The experience he relayed to me was this: they strung him along for round after round of interviews including a flyback to meet with the head honchos. The job would have required relocation to a higher cost of living area. They kept being evasive on salary…

“For Porsche, Turbo is more than just a model designation – it is an expression of a whole host of very special characteristics. But one thing stands out above all: a Turbo is always a technology leader.” https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2020/products/porsche-model-designation-turbo-characteristics-technology-leader-230…

It hasn’t morphed. The marketing/sales department decided. It is not a natural change in connotation, it is a manufactured definition. And stupid. Like when I was in high school and the control question on the drug survey. “Have you ever done Turbo’s?”. That did exist either.

What if it had a “turbo” button like some computers did in the 90s?

Calling it a wing disintegrating I actually think is fair, since the general public won’t know the difference between the structural part of the wing and its control surfaces, and certainly won’t know the proper terminology. They’ll recognize its one of the moving parts on the wing and not know what to call it, and…

Well Ford already has the Platinum level. I’m guessing it is supposed to be in reference to tungsten carbide machining tools, since those are sort of the best all-purpose machining tools. The other materials you specified are all associated too much with bourgeoise luxury and not the “working man” luxury of a truck.

My wedding ring(s) are Tungsten-Carbide with a diamond chip. It was $80 at Overstock, or you could overpay at roughly $500 in a handful of jewelry stores I saw the exact same ring in.

Probably because the word sounds sexy. People buy wedding rings as an alternative to gold, if I remember correctly.

They’re definitely still available in Japan. https://toyota.jp/mirai/?padid=from_tjptop_carlineup_car_mirai

The only true GTs on the road that can almost approach it, looks-wise, all cost nearly 3x as much brand new (The Ferrari Roma, the Continental GT, and the DB12), and aside from sheer “road-presence” (aka size), none of them look as beautiful from every angle as the LC.

Honestly, if the LFA had looked like this (and you…

Or maybe their founding past was as proctologists...cause that grille looks like ass.

Ace and Gary agree!

They’re pretty rare to see out in the wild. I remember seeing one in person for the first time as it passed by me. My head was on a swivel, eyes glued to it. There’s nothing else like it on the road. And it’s mere presence breaks necks.

“Predator grille”