Note to PGeorge: Referring to the original article/piece/thing (which just would be on CNBC, appropriately) instead of your item above. Read more
Pure biz-writing clickbait for the clueless and easily deluded. Read more
As of this writing (9:43 AM Eastern) there are [checking] now 300 people who completely miss the point of this website and need to be somewhere else. Maybe Robb Report for the snobs, or the ‘cars’ section at CNet (sample headline: “Risky design highlights the Mercedes-AMG GLE43 Coupe”) for the hopelessly unimaginative. Read more
Stretches the definition of “modern” and it’s in back instead of front, but the DeTomaso Mangusta is in there.
My good sir, what you have described above is a Mercedes 500E.
“Consider selling everything you own” - except your torque wrench.
Two-minute buyer’s guide from a marque acolyte.
Can we get Raph in here? Owning the Baja Bug was nothing but a series of desperate fixes for him. Read more
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Note: The THM400 was the popular choice, but any version from the 365 through the 412 could be had with a 5-speed. Read more
Oh, and as far as speed and handling and the rest goes, I’ll defer to what longtime Ferrari guru Michael Sheehan wrote in 2011: “If one had access to a time machine, a used 550 bought for $75k could be zapped back to 1972, and with nothing but a set of slicks, would probably win the GT class at Le Mans.” Read more
Not sure what you’re thinking here. Maranellos have seen some of the fastest appreciation on the Ferrari market recently as they approach that psychologically important twenty-year mark. Used to be that a number of good ones were continuously available in the $80k range; now well-kept examples are double that, unless…
Some of the very early Ferraris (back when they were all front-engined V12s) could be ill-handling beasts with ugly coachwork. People have had unkind things to say about the four-seaters in the Seventies and Eighties. Read more
Late 1970s Volvo.
That’s not racing. That’s roulette. Read more
Livin’ life for real, man. Read more
Snark about the asshole owner rep all you want, but a good mid-’90s Harley has been pushing its way to the top of my want list lately. Read more
I was hoping this would be a list of songs not to be played at weddings because of their screaming inappropriateness. “Saving All My Love For You” by Whitney Houston and “Go Your Own Way” and that kind of thing. Read more