Thanks for the information - and yes, US healthcare costs are out of hand versus almost anywhere as far as I can tell. I just had xrays, a CT scan and a hospital checkup for a fractured finger and I paid.....$0. A more involved scan like an MRI has a charge of about $A500 when I had one a couple of years ago, but you…

I will never understand paying above the set price of the car. I do understand that the US market is different to ours in Australia, but it is very unlikely you’d find someone who’d do that here, I think.

Is that really what car insurance in the US costs? My house and car insurance together is about that much per month, in Australian dollars, so it would be even less than US$150. I would not have guessed there would be that kind of disparity.

The name “Max Mosley” is synonymous with.......the end of this sentence should be F1, but it’s actually seedy sex practices and being a bit of an asshole.

My favourite was the young woman who had maybe a ‘65 Mustang and they didn’t turn it into a sideshow. I think they made it a cool aquamarine and white outside with similar for the seats and trim inside. It was something that you’d be proud to own. I think they put a rack for her surfboards on it as well.

My favourite was the young woman who had maybe a ‘65 Mustang and they didn’t turn it into a sideshow. I think they made it a cool aquamarine and white outside with similar for the seats and trim inside. It was something that you’d be proud to own. I think they put a rack for her surfboards on it as well.

As a painter, I appreciate his work as well as his name.  The car is amazing, but I don’t have the personality to drive around something that would get that much attention.

I’m going to be checking this out when it comes to Australia later in the year. I’ll be looking for a car in a few years when I retire, and given that I would like an EV if possible, and given that I can’t keep my ute as well and would still like to carry things up to six feet long, this might be it.

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.