Probably the same car at Monterey a bit over a decade ago

Quite a tour! Thank you!

Porsche and Audi are run by VW and Dieselgate is the issue. I think the WEC costs pale to F1 costs.

Even drive a 1960s Icon and you will be amazed how much technology has advanced. My favorite segment of the old Top Gear is when they are reviewing 2 British sports car icons from the 1960s - a Jag E Type and Aston Martin DB5. Then to top it off they show a modern Honda Accord V6 beatinkg them both on the track.

In the 2 car clubs I am in (Mercedes and an informal Toyota MR2 group) the Porsche people seem to take themselves too seriously. If you don’t have a Porsche you just aren’t worth talking to.

Decent ones are sure hard to come by and even when you find them the price is still relatively low - they haven’t caught on like original 240Zs or first gen Celica. Which mystifies me because the car has quite a pedigree - supposedly Lotus helped design it - Toyota owned a stake in Lotus at the time - and I do know…

My NA 2 had a 0-60 time of close to 8.5 seconds - at 340,000 miles I don’t really test it these days ;-) I thought I read a road test between the MR2 4 and the Fierro 6 but these days my memory can be in question.

IIRC GM even had a concept Spyder just before they pulled the plug

What gets me about the Fiero was that when it was initially brought out, it, ugh, needed more engineering work. on the account of it would catch on fire. And by the time GM makes it into a nice little car - with a V6 - they stop making it.

Probably 8 mpg too. plastic that looks like wood; all you needed were “opera windows” to complete the look.

Of all the insurance companies, I think the Hagartys are true gearheads. What is also amazing - when I have driven older cars - is to realize how much tire, suspension and drive train technology has advanced.

Those are gear heads that I don’t understand - like trailoring a car from concours to concours. Why buy a car you admire and then .....let it sit in the garage? $40K really isn’t that much when you consider what Ford would charge for a 2017 Marauder (fictional of course).

I had an interesting experience buying a new Mercedes E Class a few years ago. MB-USA has on their web site the ability to spec “your car” and send it to dealers. Specifically by the zip code you select it goes to the nearest dealer. So I simply manipulated the zip code to get 4 dealers in Central CA and 5 in the Bay…

Looks to me like he was racing the Nissan. Looking at the BMW while I think most accidents are avoidable that guy didn’t have a chance.

Dick Danger was driving like an idiot too, blowing red lights and almost sideswiping 2 cars. Entertaining video.

That is assuming that their fuel level sensor was operation as it should.

Mercedes already has such a program though Mercedes Classic. They will return it to like new with factory parts. There are 2 centers - in Germany it is in Fellbach and in the US in Irvine.

Do I detect a tad of sarcasm here? ;-)

Nothing wrong with learning something, even if you aren’t going to use it. I have been on exactly 2 motorcycles in my life. The first was a Honda CB 750 in the 70s. I actually drove it. The thing was so top heavy I felt like I was sitting atop a spinning top. I did not like it.

A few years earlier while in the Army in…

This is news? I’m more concerned with the lives it saved from our forces having to root them out of the caves.