The car in the ad is an Audi 100LS. They had inboard front brakes that traded heat with the transaxle and combined a short service life with expensive and involved replacement in addition to all of the usual Audi quality issues. As for the Fox and its VW Dasher twin, the vast majority of owners had awful experiences. I'm old enough to remember when they were both common sights in the college town where I grew up, but the Foxes were scrapped by about 1982 and the last Dashers didn't make it much longer. It is easy to believe that they drove much better than GM cars though.
Man, did they suck.
The first generation V6 Cayenne would have been hard pressed to outrun various minivans.
Yet another German enthusiasts car where the automatic is the roll out model and the manual transmission is an afterthought. German 'men' sit down to pee after all.
Concerted effort by Bloomberg to make driving in the city a privilege of the rich.
It's all fun and games until they return your $60,000 car with dents and scrapes and then forget how to speak English. Push the issue and you'll eventually have someone point out the fine print you couldn't read that absolves them from responsibility. It happens so often that I had friends who had been through pretty much every garage on the upper west side, having left each one after the second or third incident involving their cars being returned with new damages. The best way to deal with New York is to learn how not to be the kind of person that wants to be in New York.
What class is it best in? 7 seconds to 60 and 23 mpg isn't much of a threat to the best V6s from Toyota and Honda.
A friend had a 2001 740i Sport he bought in 2005 for $20,000 from a dealer plus $2,000 to extend the warranty to 100,000 miles in 2005. He joined a club of like minded E38 enthusiasts that exchanged tech info and got together on weekends to work on their cars. The warranty was completely legitimate, and paid out over $7,700 in repairs during its last year. All that time in the shop, and all that money, still wasn't enough to keep the toys working as 100,000 mile loomed. The engine developed a miss. The transmission sometimes made scary clunks. The power steering assist disappeared at awkward times, usually while rounding 90 degree corners in the city. None of that was included in the $7,700 in work, as intermittent problems were ignored by the dealer and interior toys weren't as important as having the car on the road at least some of the time. He grudgingly traded it in at 100,000 miles, as the prospect of driving it without a warranty wasn't to be thought of. Trade in value was $9,000 on a new GTI, so it still managed to depreciate $13,000 in less than three years, even though the original owner had seen $45,000 in depreciation in four years. Maybe luxury cars from the past dozen years aren't better bargains than new economy cars.
Except for the third of them that were backed into the woods at 70 mph when they were new.
"Loh broke the first rule of troll defense - don't feed 'em." What does this 'article' constitute?
I don't know the details. They stopped issuing new ones to drivers of regular hybrids at some point, but I don't know if that means the previously issued ones stopped being valid or not. I certainly still see them on the cars, but I do my best not to drive where and when those stickers would make a difference. If they've revoked the privilege, I almost feel sorry for the people who are left with ugly yellow stickers permanently affixed to their cars.
This case is also significant because it represents someone rejecting a class action in favor of a trip to small claims. The days of millions of plaintiffs getting $1.21 settlement checks while scumbag class action law firms take 45% of the total could be coming to a close, and that is almost certainly a good thing.
That yellow mark is a California sticker that awards some 'green' car drivers the right to drive in HOV lanes without passengers.
Thanks for posting such thorough follow up information!
That's certainly a logical conclusion, but for it to happen with both grids to three decimal places seems improbable.
He said the US needs to be weened off of fossil fuels in defending his choice to send Canada's Athabasca Oil to China. For people that aren't on the receiving end of his cronyism, that will mean we can't have freedom of movement, food choices, heated homes in the winter, or jobs.
BTW, go to the Boxer-Costa-Pelosi Dust Bowl for a good look at what your Stalinistic tendencies have wrought. Be sure to wear your Proud of Boxer t-shirt.
Sorry for getting carried away. I concede that it looks no more like a Muira than it does like an R8. I was merely appreciating that the passenger compartment is closer to the center of the wheelbase than it is in most mid-engined cars with longitudinal engines. I suspect the engine in the new NSX is transverse, much like a Muira, or a Fiero for that matter. I may well be a Honda fanatic on an amateur level, but I don't defend the cars they put out that I think look ridiculous, like the nose on the first RDX, the roofline and doors of the ZDX, and the Crosstour(at least two out of three times that I look at it). Hell, I recommended my friend lease a new Audi A6 two weeks ago, and it is almost ideal considering he has no interest in keeping it when the lease ends.
I considered that, but does the fact that two pairs of drivers had identical to three digit average speeds mean that they crossed the line side by side?
So if I get rid of the nose they actually put on the car, ignore the completely different headlights, and squint to avoid seeing any level of detail, what remains will look like an obvious R8 front end rip off? And then you accuse me of fanboyism? You're insane.
Even more remarkable, this must mean that the driver has three feet!
