How are toilet paper filters? :-)

Read something interesting awhile back. i come from a Mercedes background, and at least 2 (relatively new) Mercedes use cartridge oil filters. After prefius enginkes used the far-less-messy spin on.

If you are talking about using to (hypothetically) rob a bank then you’d want an older inconspicuous car. One that blends in.

I certainly don’t know the business like you but what percentage of these buyers just lease and aren’t interested in the sales price? Just how much a month?

Why do you feel that it needs an overhaul? At 1,000 miles? Shouldn’t you just be able to flush the fuel system,. put in new oil and battery and go? I would probably squirt a little oil into the spark plug hols and start the pistons moving (sans spark plugs).

Love the pedal cars on the top. And those cars - like the Daytona in the foreground, look like they are driven regularily.

Does that mean that a lot of cars have neither “run flat” tires or spares? Or are they using conventional tires and no spares?

What I never understood is that when stationed in Germany in th early 70s the cars of choice for middle class Germans was either a Fiat of Opel. And yet over year they had such a horrible reputation for reliability.

You don’t think that it looks like a cheese wedge on wheels? And on the new ones, the mouth of a catfish? I sup[pose where it does well is mainly urban drivinkg where it can use the electric drive a lot - but a car for enthusiasts?

Start with letting the Italians design the body

And you have the poor journalist’s Porsche! Be glad you don’t have the original fuel injection the early 914 had.

That dealership sounds pretty crooked. “Assuming” the drawing was legitimate, they should have had enough sense to keep employees out.

He doesn’t want BMW to make his problem go away and wants to keep doing what he is doing. Sounds like a nut case.

The reason is that all the modern supercars are so full of electronic driver’s aids BS that they take away a lot of the driving sensations. Who cares about an electronic behemoth that can go 250?

It is why the McLaren F1 has become such an iconic car. Up to $15 million now, they don’t even have traction control.

Never will forget what a body shop man told me in his little shop as i was gettinkg ,y Toyota painted. There was a Countach there and he said that the constructino quality on my Celica was way better than the Lambo.

But they do sound nice.

Your mother sounds pretty cool! On the heat and the windshield - your TX heat is as brutal (or more ) than our Central Valley heat, and I have used Covercraft windshield screens for years - it is amazing how much cooler they keep the car and you know they are doing the job when every 5-6 years you have to replace them…

If you are hydroplaning excessive speed is definitely a factor. I don’t see how anyone could survive that. Oh wait, he is RHD. I was sent something via email showing a Lamborghini careening wildly out of control going faster than traffic In the rain.

I’d like to know why the first generation Toyota MR2 hasn’t caught. (I know, supply and demand - despite the fact there is very little supply - I must have the last 2-3 in my area of a million) - there is even less demand.

This is an unusual Saab: the 92. Inline 2 - 2 stroke. I’ll take your 900 and raise you a 92 ;-) I can still remember those spitting blue smoke and and engine sound definitely unique.

A good friend had a 1974 for many years. He said the engine was a copy of the Chevy I6 235. We’d go up a hill in granny gear and I swear you could hear each cylinder - slow but torquey

I don’t think Mercedes has ever represented this as a sports car - after the legendary 300SL - show me another car that became a street car from the competition car - and the engineers actually made it better - but the Daimler Benz BOD decreed that future SLs would be based on a current chassis - the R129 is based on…