Been a hot minute since I worked there so who knows how things are today but. . .

In the early 2000's I worked a lot of IT contractor/consultant work. No benefits, just straight cash. Blah. So I did what a shitload of other people, including small-business owners did. Work one of the night “sorts” (aka 3-5 hours…

If it was a later car with an LT1 and an intact seat, I’d be game. So, no dice on this one.

It’s like the Honda Grom’s cooler European artist friend who smokes.

And therein lies my biggest disappointment: it’s not this. I was thinking this was a new contender in the Grom/z125 hooligan market, which made me super excited because I lurve Husky’s design language. So WOOT!WOOT!…

Seriously.  What kinda pussy needs eight forward gears?

This’ll make you really love them: In virtually all of these shows, they already own the home they “choose” before filming even started. They seriously pretend shop their own house.

Oh, I’ve no skin in this game, and if you buy now you’re an idiot. The shorts will win the war, even they got slaughtered in this battle. The stock has nowhere to go but down.

First up, divorce any notion of “reality” and “reason” when discussing the stock market. This shit is straight-up bistromathics. The stock…

Exactly. The plan (from my outsider’s understanding) was to inflate that value and stay there until after the hedge funds had to return the “borrowed” stocks they shorted. Obviously at some point WSB and its cohort would sell (hopefully at a reasonable profit) but I’ve never seen that as part of the equation. The…

Only if there’s a holographic Barry Manilow in the ad campaign.

I know, which immediately makes it a turd. Self-referential irony doesn’t work on industrial products.  Now, a sly pun about a mythical goatsucker? Hipsters’d eat that shit up. I’d bet there’s a dadcore-screamo-synthpop group already operating under that name. . .

Please tell me that “El-Born” is some dumb placeholder name, and the real one is “Chabra.”

Cupra Chabra.

It must happen.

Great, now all I can think about is this scene.

I mean, I knew this, but it’s worth reiterating (from the BI story) how much the gem trade could resemble buying weed.

My co-worker had a fairly modded ‘bird: pretty much all those complaints were addressed rummaging around the Ford parts bin and busting out the JEGS catalogue. I nice priced it, as this is about as clean a foundation as you’ll get if you’re itching for an 80's turbo coupe but don’t have T-Type/GN money. And this…

Nein. That there is an “i”, not a “d” for diesel, which the N57 is.

Yup, right under the marker. Here’s a similar 2011 on Cargurus for the audience.

That seems to be the trend. I’d add an edit to the old adage: there’s nothing more expensive than a poorly maintained cheap German luxury car.  The ones that were cared for are pretty damn solid.

That robustness is why I was willing to roll the dice on an N55-powered E90 335i xDrive. So far it’s been a tank outside of a blown chargepipe, but I knew that was gonna happen at some point.

I’d be curious to see how the N54 in the (later) 335is coupes have held up, as it would’ve shared many of the upgrades from the…

Not all of them, xDrive was just a really popular option.

I’ll be the first to admit I could be wrong here as the N54/N55 changeover was murky. All I can say with “certainty” is that it happened sometime in 2010, and any 2011 model year BMW (barring the 335is) with a turbo I6 should be N55-powered. But, every now and then, I’ll hear of an 2010 E90 with an N55, though. Super…

If it does, it’s missing the actual badging. It’ll be either on the tailgate or under the side turnsignal light.