It’s amazing isn’t it? How did they scrub it so completely from our collective consciousness? This car was on sale 6 years ago! Read more

So the Virage was just a long con to convince the bosses to facelift the DB9. I like that theory. Read more

Earlier today I emailed the Consulate of Monaco. I saw a 4×4² with plates registered to the Consulate, and we had already spotted a 6x6 with the same registration, so we wanted to check if they had any other cool cars. Unsurprisingly, they didn’t have anything to say to us. Read more

I wrote the article this afternoon and when it published I had already forgotten about the Virage again. Read more

Has that car aged horribly or was it never attractive? Because my God that is not the Aston Martin I know Read more

Fair metaphor, but I once ended up at a Jack Johnson concert and realized if you hear them all in a row then the charm wears off. Read more

See this is the sort of Aston Martin booty expertise you only get from Jalopnik commenters Read more

No I meant slave boy implies unpaid, sorry for the confusion. You’re correct that intern is the most accurate term, I was just trying to make a joke that you correctly recognized was tone deaf. Read more

No, they haven’t. Hopefully they’ll keep that in other markets, so they can remain in my top tier of automobile brand nomenclature. Because I know that’s a highly prized industry position that they’re glad to be in. Read more

I think those are fair points, but that only explains why the Camaros depreciate harder than the Mustangs. It doesn’t explain why two cars that were separated by $20,000 when new are now offered within a few thousand dollars of each other, or why the gap between specialty listings like bringatrailer and general… Read more

I have a lot of model nomenclature takes because I’m a massive nerd, but Audi is one of the most logical out there. The R8 is a bit weird, and their two-digit KW-based thing is another possible place for confusion, but at least they keep the base model names logical. Read more

KBB is a good barometer for perceived value though. Z/28s selling for more on specialty sites is exactly the point I’m making: they’re only worth something if you know what they are, which most people don’t. Read more

I think your argument helps my case. Of course these bring more on Bring A Trailer, because that’s a site where people know — or get explained in a well-written listing — what the car is. Read more

It also implies I’m unpaid. I am paid, and I see now that this could be offensive, so I’ll swap it out. Read more

They’ve come up with an even more innovative way to avoid confusion when making performance models: slowly let all of your performance models die so nobody has to know their names. Read more

Thank you! Read more

But what if I want to Read more

Hey man I’m here for eight hours a day I gotta write about something Read more

Luckily, or unluckily, I have never been in a situation where I could come close to affording a Z/28. So not direct experience, but I’ve heard stories. Read more

Intern implies that, as part of this deal, Mike Ballaban doesn’t legally own my soul. As such, I thought slave boy was a more precise term. Read more