German cars can depreciate pretty quickly, yes. But they seem to hit a floor faster than other cars. Used cars in general seem to be trending up over the last year (if the number of 10-15 year-old American cars with over 100k miles asking more than $6-7k is any indication), but German cars seem to have a prestige…

This could very well be a styling thing. The Mustang really pops in certain colors, and looks more upscale. The Challenger stays fresh because of the drivetrain options and splashy headlines it grabs every 12-18 months, as well as looking its best ever.

They got it to look good on the outside, yes, but it’s still mostly the same inside, and there’s no higher-hp engine option. Put a detuned Civic Type-R lump in this and I think it would garner more looks. Just having the new brand styling, headlight tech, and A-spec options make it quite a bit more appealing, though.

More HP isn’t needed, no, but it’s still one of the most sellable metrics, if not the most. It’s why half-ton pickups regularly boast 350+hp and around 400tq *on average* these days, when 20 years ago a 1-ton dually was maybe pushing 250hp, and about that much torque. Or why there are so many “Tesla drag races X car”…

On this news my friend may slightly regret having just sold his GT3 (eagerly awaiting the new one), because now all the old NA models will shoot through the roof. And this is *after* the thing slightly appreciated over the time he owned it.

This guy is the Frank Dux of auto manufacturing. Soooo many stories about being in the trenches of the industry and living the auto enthusiast life, and then he shoots himself in the foot at a high-visibility event where he’s easily shown to be (very likely) lying, and in a way he had total ability to avoid in the…

Would it fit LS7 heads and covers, though? The LS7 is a generation newer.

He probably feels he has to, given that so many small-time car builders that cater to the rich use the LS as their starting point. Claiming it’s HPE’s own design would theoretically give the F5 more cachet...if people couldn’t plainly see or track down the LS pieces and tech other companies made, that is.

Ya, the 2G Durango was not a net positive. It kinda looked like an elephant crossed with a 1G Ford Expedition, retaining what I hate about that truck’s styling: the way the the thing just ends in back, as if formed through an extrusion process and then roughly “cut” from the material by a strong push. But everything…

Not like it is here in the desert.

It’s covert enough given that Charger SRT392s and Charger R/T SCAT Packs look essentially identical to a Hellcat minus nameplates, effectively multiplying the number of Hellcat look-alikes out on the road. Plus, because it’s blacked out completely, it looks like any other murdered-out modern car unless you can spot…

I drove through a (much smaller) diverging diamond recently in Springfield, Missouri

**Face in hands rubbing vigorously**

I can’t turn down a mint older car. NP.

Um, fuck me says what?

Same here, I don’t buy it. Other countries heavily restricted firearms and don’t have this problem. The only anti-banning argument I understand from the pro-gun side is that a blanket ban doesn’t work (case in point: it didn’t work for drugs or alcohol). But beyond that - and EXTREMELY few people wanting gun control…

Vehicles with nuclear fission tanks certainly would make demolition derbies and monster truck rallies more interesting.

Well, according to GOP presidential campaign rhetoric from the last 4 cycles:

Which one also has a duty to do its level best to stay ahead of market and legislative curves in the pursuance of serving that same end?

Also you’re aware that Trump has been very anti-corruption