Lincoln's a sales monster compared to the RX-8, which moved 92 units in April. Looks like they'll sell fewer than 5,000 of the updated Series 2s since they were released in '09.
@KeyserSöze: The 964 wasn't necessarily one of the most loved 911s either. Lots of folks sort of gloss over the era between the 3.2 Carrera and the 993.
Seven Grand should be your drinks destination all week long. Try the Los Angeles Cocktail, your life will never be the same.
I'm split on this one. It would be great to have all sorts of black market cars over here, but these regulations that everyone is crying about also keep those tin-can Cherys off of our streets.
I've always wished that black market cars could be regulated like experimental aircraft. If you fly a plane that doesn't have the usual FAA certification, you have to put a very visible placard on the instrument panel stating as such so that passengers know what they're getting in to. If you do the same thing with cars that can't pass DOT, then people can figure out if that's a risk they want to take.
I've always wished that black market cars could be regulated like experimental aircraft. If you fly a plane that doesn't have the usual FAA certification, you have to put a very visible placard on the instrument panel stating as such so that passengers know what they're getting in to. If you do the same thing with cars that can't pass DOT, then people can figure out if that's a risk they want to take.
@Peugeot: They also know how to escape from a submerged car, as proven by the spectacularly low fatality count in the I-35W collapse.
@docvb001: Every day when my disabled girlfriend parks her car.
There's too many cars in the field. Many of which aren't even trying to be competitive. There are teams which are sponsored by companies that have no interest in winning races, but rather running rolling billboards. Put that much crap in the field, all just running in circles to make pace, and you get a boring race.
@SubieBlast: In Southern California? Natural gas, coal, nuclear, and hydropower.
@wætherman: Actually, in several locations in Southern California, they're proposing to let anyone buy their way into the HOV lanes. For single-occupancy vehicles it just becomes a toll lane, with the price dependant on the traffic conditions in the free lanes.
@cobrajoe: Inspectors? What are you, some sort of communist pinko? Shouldn't the free market have prevented this disaster?
@jumpmanx2424: There are reports that the rig operators got into a heated discussion regarding the drilling routine that day. The BP rep wanted to push the rig further than the Transocean guys did, to the point that one of the guys from Transocean remarked afterwards, "Well, I guess that's what we have those pinchers for," referring to the blowout preventer.
@Baby beater Benz: I think you owe the Yamahammer SHO an apology.
@JC Whitless: Not enough to create a slick the size of Jamaica or cause fishing bans.
120 replies, and not one mention of how much extra Bruce this would add to your car? What happened to this place?!?
@Triborough: Black plates are cool, but how about the commemerative 1984 LA Olympics plates? Somehow they seem even more fitting on this car in particular. I did a triple take when I parked behind this one.
@Triborough: Though, I have seen brand new cars with the mid-80s Sunset plates.
I've been keeping an eye out for originally titled S3 Alfa Spiders just to get those plates...
@Flathead Smith and the Screaming Straight Pipes: CR is extremely biased towards people not getting killed or maimed as they go about their daily business.
This being the United States of America, you're welcome to purchase any vehicle you want. Consumer Reports suggests that you not buy this one. Still want one? Go for it. But watch out for lift-throttle oversteer which is apparently more pronounced on this model than any other one they've tested.
This is the first time they've given a car a "Don't Buy" in almost 10 years. It's not like that gets thrown around willy-nilly.
@Flathead Smith and the Screaming Straight Pipes: Perhaps it makes me the odd duck, but I cross-read Jalopnik and Consumer Reports. Why? CR takes no corporate money to perform their tests or publish their results. I like to get unbiased product tests as often as I can.
Does that mean I drive a Camry? Of course not. Sometimes people have this uncanny ability to read multiple sources of information and evaluate them to make decisions that work for them.
But still, here's to your world of overturned Suzuki Samurais and cheap Walmart crap that you have to replace every 2 years.
When Miles retired to Malibu, he got a silver Testarossa. As the story went, Malibu being how it is, his people called the police department so they wouldn't be alarmed when they saw him driving it around town.
There's a pic somewhere, but it seems to have gotten lost in one of the many FerrariChat server explosions.