Yep.  Along with marble racing, this is just amazing.  Time NOT wasted, by me or the creators.

I get paid every two weeks, so I fill up then. I haven’t run out of gas in 30 years of car ownership. I also get that this might not be possible for everyone, so I don’t take it lightly.

I will never understand how this kind of thing happens in the US. In Australia, they would get nothing but laughter as people left the showroom. I get that there are way more people competing for vehicles, but you’d get no takers here.  I don’t even know if that is legal in Australia.

“I know you signed a contract, but you didn’t tell us you were going to drive your Model 3 outdoors - that will require a lot of rework to survive the harsh environment of ‘the world’. The enclosed price increase reflects this”

I would have thought the same with my dad and me - we can argue when we are on the same side - but we got through it with minimal disruption.  He thinks it was because I was concentrating so much I didn’t have time to disagree with him.

That you can drive a car with just a toe on the accelerator (my mum is 4' 11"). Also that she drives the car - I had my licence for 5 years before I drove my mum anywhere, and it has only happened a couple of times in the 31 years I’ve had my licence.

That may have been it - I just don’t remember it exactly.

I remember something similar in 1976 - here in Australia, my parents had a Holden station wagon (aquamarine blue with off-white vinyl roof and seats - I loved that colour combo) and as far as I remember, it didn’t have in-door speakers, so the sound must have come out of the dash somewhere.

There was a time, many many years ago, when a radio was a high-trim option that cost extra money as opposed to a standard in every single car on the market. It’s how Motorola got started. 

I only have one car - it’s just happened eight times :)

I would very much like a DB5 please.  I’ve never seen one, let alone sat in or driven one.  I could see it in the kind of house that has the room to park a (small) car in the living area.  Can you tell I live alone?

I have built a car or two.  Out of plastic, mostly - thanks to model companies and Lego.  This bloke took it up a notch, didn’t he?  I’d like to see the roadworthy test, though.  Good on him.

Why is orange trim a thing? I DON’T LIKE THIS

It’s unfortunate but understandable. It’s also why I’m trying hard to make my next car an EV, because I’m an ideal candidate. I live alone, have a garage that I can put a Level 2 charger in, and I don’t leave town often and drive long distances only rarely - so the paradox that EV’s apparently work better around town…

The Lotus Esprit submarine car from The Spy Who Loved Me.  Yes, it was great in the movie, but I also saw it in person at the 1977 Melbourne International Motor Show.  It was like seeing a celebrity in Australia.

I have owned 8 cars, and I would have to guess for the first five - probably $8-10K average each, the last three have been new (1, held 12 years) and near new the others, so say $100k, which means $150k all up (Australian dollars). As someone said, that’s what my house roughly cost to build (land not included).

Thanks for that. I am hoping that younger car people like yourself will still have some cool stuff to look forward to.

Fair points - it’s just that I have tried to explain in the past that like some other people, I can’t physically drive a manual and therefore would have liked a bigger selection of auto transmissions to drive - that was largely ignored here at times. I have never wished for manuals to go away, just that more versions…

So many people here shit on non-manual transmissions it is hard to tell. Sorry if it offended you.

Not dealing well with the fact that manuals are all but dead, I see.  The EV future does not bode well for you.  Lucky that you can keep driving an ICE car for some time yet, hey.