It looks like they’re listing the car for about what they paid for it as a trade in and trying to recover their reconditioning costs on the back end, which is exceptionally sleazy.

The logic is that they’re lying. That car would be going straight to auction, not getting cleaned up to put on the lot.

At best, the long shots look like someone took a breathtakingly beautiful (rear engined) Ghia and slapped a Mercedes grill on the front.

It’s a fake Volkswagen that looks like a fake Mercedes, and the bottom eight inches are sculpted entirely (and badly) out of Bondo. Hard pass.

It might be worse than you think. The front fenders need to sit that high for the engine to fit under the hood. That filler strip at the back of the fender is tapered, allowing the back to sit lower but putting a bend in the body. That’s fixable, but the real problem is that for this body to have a high enough belt…

It is if the existing panels don’t fit the car. Just look at that head-on picture above. That roof is never going to look right.

It’s not what they did at all. If you scroll through the pictures on the listing, there are a whole bunch of other 250GTE parts included. Plus there’s rust on some of these panels. Instead of just building a bespoke body that actually fits the hard points of the California, this person butchered a second Ferrari for a…

“No. I’ve ruined two perfectly good Ferraris!”

But you have to pull twice.

While the article cited did not look at deaths specifically, “They don’t reduce the total number of vehicle accidents, the total number of individuals injured in accidents or the total number of incapacitating injuries that involve ambulance transport to a hospital.”

This is true, but hinges on the assumption that the laws are truly written with the aim of reducing fatalities. What is safe is almost always going to be in conflict with what’s convenient or economically viable, and you can guess which side most politicians are on.

“18 different highway laws proven to reduce crashes, save lives and reduce injuries”

Just recently I saw the aftermath of a refrigerator falling out the back of a pickup on a local 55mph road. Fortunately nobody was close behind. It was a mess. Generally I have more faith in a CDL holder to secure his load than some bozo who really should have just paid the delivery fee instead of trying to haul…

The length of the loan is forever, because the customer is going to do the same thing again long before it’s paid off.

Given the number of issues they reported, it sounds like whoever payed $13k for this got screwed.

“some minor rust on the door jamb and rear fender, it all looks to be in solid shape”

The insurance claim.

Audi’s move into the boring luxury market in the 90s.

- Your linear regression makes an assumption that the decline will continue until prices go negative. A logarithmic fit would account for an eventual price floor. (Even if that number is just the scrap value, but by eye it’s going to be around $70k.)

Any Tesla is the wrong answer, because Elon and his followers have no concept of shame.