8 fractures, 7 screws and a titanium rod in my right leg have led to a hiatus from my R53 track build but I'll be back on it. I'd post pics but I can't seem to do it anymore. Tried multiple browsers.

As a physical therapist and someone w/ an L5-S1 fusion, I feel your pain.

Damn. That’s more extreme.  Getting older sucks.  While smaller and temporary injuries tend to destroy my enthusiasm on my projects, it’s my dealing with a parent’s Alzheimer’s that sucks up so much mental and physical energy. I have both a broken wheel stud on one car and a getting noisy rear bearing on another. Max…

Well it’s only from 2018 onwards. So you’d have to do the sales figures from 2018, which a quick google search says is about 2.35M cars.  Which would make it $23.8k per car sold since 2018 goes to him.

What could go wrong said Boeing.

Ford’s market cap is $49B, so he could execute a hostile takeover of Ford.

1st gear: WTF does “initial quality even mean? Is that when a customer first looks at a car with zero experience driving it? And aren’t these awards generally considered bought and paid for anyway?

Funny - the Hornet, which was designed and built in Europe, is dead last...while the Ram, which was designed and is built in the US is first...

The disposibility is going to be a problem eventually, of course, because it makes these things so expensive. They have to be built to exorbitant reliability standards, since there’s no hope of repair, and they’re just thrown away at the end of a relatively short mission. (That’s only part of what makes them…

New Hampshire? Car’s been up for sale for a couple of weeks, even though it’s offered at a pittance and promises to run perfectly?

If the A/C works this is a NP all day long. And I despise most German vehicles.

for 3k? yes why not.

Worst case it will be worth as much in spare parts.

Obviously well cared for to make it this far, and the price is drive-til-it-breaks money. A reasonable chance of getting your money’s worth before that happens. NP.

I want my window switches replaced with capacitive touch screens. Also the pedals. If you could replace the seats with capacitive touch screens that would be great, too. That way my seats can be any color I’m feeling on that particular day. While you’re at it, do we really need a steering wheel? I should be able to…

Honestly, just get a base one, put 100k miles on it, then sell it for like 60% of the price. Rinse and repeat. Gas savings and unbeatable depreciation.

They seem to be selling for ~$25-30k. I suppose you won’t find a new high performance electric EV anywhere else at that price. But setting aside the fact that the software side was never fully baked and will never be, any major issue renders it a paperweight. It’s a huge dice roll. I might be interested for $10-15k.

I think the main lesson is a timeless one: avoid buying a first model year car of a new design (or major redesign). Doubly so for a brand-new manufacturer. The Lucid, Fisker, and Blazer were all some of the very first cars off the line for those models (and in the case of Lucid/Fisker the manufacturers themselves).

I don’t like to brag, but *all* of my cars have unique one-of-one VINs from the factory. Adds a lot of value on the collector market.

It also says 350 cubic inches on that interior plate, yet the engine says 502. Then there’s the multiple sets of exhaust outlets. This thing gets more confusing and disturbing the more I look at it.

No, that’s too classy. It’s got “JC Whitney” written all over it.