Ironically, that’s the crux of the issue: we want to buy manuals but are then repeatedly told we’re allowed to have nothing else alongside the privilege of rowing our own gears. Then we get slapped again with “we don’t produce a manual version any more because no one bought the manuals we built.” Well, no shit, we…

Weird, I thought the 1.4t was never paired with the auto; did they change that at some point? I know the new 1.3t is auto-only but then again, so is the Rennie in general now. I’d be curious to try a manual Compass (as you theoretically could get the Tigershark paired with a stick) but the rest of that car was weird…

Pieces of eggshell were found nearby.

Every now and then I can smell sarcasm, almost as well as you can smell dwarf.

Only reason I know about this is that after I moved, I finally catalogued a bunch of my old crap and then checked their rough values. It was kinda funny to see what was valuable and what was absolutely hot garbage. The answer is most of it,…

Apparently not, which is interesting in light of the sealed SMB going for 100K+. Apparently an SMB retail copy is worth more than a few bucks, if you have one. My usual scumbags make no note of the Sonic variants, but man, if you’ve got a five screw NES cart. . .

FWIW, I have a first print retail copy of Sonic. My…

But are obviously still functional enough for a LeMons team. IIRC, those jet-powered motorcycles (like Leno has) use rehabbed helicopter engines that were past their allowable flight-hours, ergo, literally going in the scrapheap, just like damn near every “home”-built jet-powered drag car. I’m with Green86 on this…

It’s like a “mists of internet time” type thing but they had a new-gen 3 hatch with that configuration at the LA Auto Show in 2018.

They seemed to vanish in a hurry. My wife and I got ours from the first batch that hit the local dealer’s lot back in 2015; I want to say there were something like two or three manuals out of maybe twelve to fifteen cars they received. All the manuals were AWD, too. We ended up taking the Sport with the upgraded…

Because we want it. Period. Maybe auto is better and we just don’t know. Or maybe we just don’t care. Also, your apocryphal 20% take rate is hitting way above the industry at large: I’m not sure but you may have undermined your own point.

I’m going to sit this first year or so out, mainly because the best deal you’ll hope to get on this truck is full MSRP for awhile. When I’m ready to buy, I’m thinking manual 2-door Black Diamond with the Mid and Sasquatch, as long as I can get the cooler grill. (I kinda recall Ford saying that’ll be an option.)…

And thus again the snake eats its own tail.

Drove the E90 versions back-to-back and didn’t feel like I was giving up too much going with xDrive. Again, I will repeat that I came in from a GTO which would dive through turns like a chubby dolphin and rotate the back end on demand regardless of what the traction control wanted. When stock. Think something like a…

Interesting. Wonder if they were racking up conquest sales of Legacy/Outback owners who just got promoted to management?

Dunno if I’d say xDrive ruins the E9x, outside of a tendency to understeer relative to the RWD model. Granted, I came in from a bogan hate machine so my evaluation is tainted. Given the xDrive…

Always forget that the three-pedal wagons are manufactured from pure unobtanium. I don’t even want to ponder what an E91 6spd xDrive would run, if one slipped over. Don’t mean to move the goalposts too much but the wagon is like, a next-level choice. You look for that, you’re in the know. And yes, not selling the…

I’ve lost a couple 10mm sockets over the years but they tend to eventually turn up. Something about 8mm sockets, though. . .

That said, I totally bought the shirt on Blipshift.

I’m kinda tempted find a 135i with a scragged engine and stuff an N62 into it. I mean, someone has to have done that build. Be more interesting the obligatory N54 “JB4, FBO and 30FF I go” rig.

Investors absolutely want their investment to succeed. Full stop. The investment is not the company, the company is merely the instrument through which the return is generated. It’s a crucial difference. Whether the company does succeed, they truly don’t care. Go re-read what happened to Toy ‘R’ Us, and to a lesser…

The F32 ZHP’s probably roughly analogous to the 335is but is the wrong generation. We’re talking about the E8x/E9x cars mainly as they’re the last place you’ll find a non-turbo straight-six, and I think that lack of the snail will make them more desirable than the boosted models.

And that last sentiment sums it up. This, and to a lesser extent the 328i coupe, are going to be the collector’s choice for the non-M E8x/E9x cars. I get the feeling non-iDrive (but) w/ M-Sport will be the preferred option. Long story short, they’re the most modern examples of the classic BMW concept.  Definitely…

Forgot to list that. It’s definitely the third desired outcome. Possible, and also profitable.