Used car prices are wild. I dont look often so dont have a comparison but used cars are selling for the same price as the new models. I guess with used cars the appeal is you don't have to wait 6 months
I'd kill to drive the new Emira, leaks and all. Rattles too. Listen to the door @2:05.
In my (admittedly limited) experience with super sports cars the likes of Lotus, Lamborghini, Ferrari, McLaren, etc., they're all pieces of #### in this respect.
In my (admittedly limited) experience with super sports cars the likes of Lotus, Lamborghini, Ferrari, McLaren, etc., they're all pieces of #### in this respect.
This is part of why I have a fondness for AM. Even the 'sports car' is built to be a good grand tourer, so NVH and interior finishing are both table stakes when building the car. Porsche's very good at it too.
Read this 1992 exotic comparison from the C&D archives if you want to see how far cars have come from the 90's. Even Tesla bests the standards of 90's era Ferrari and Lamborghini. These were brand new exotic cars sold with the build quality of kit cars.
· Huge air leak in left corner of driver-side window
· Driver's lap belt won't retract
· Triangular piece of unidentified, gooey-surfaced plastic trim is rolling around footwell.
· Fuel-filler flap won't lock
· Greyhound-sized windshield wiper, despite carbon-fiber downforce tabs, begins to lift off beyond 80 mph
· Ominous groan from rear bulkhead; a half-shaft or loose subframe assembly
· Gear-shift knob ready to fall off
· Door latches impossibly stiff, requiring two hands to operate
· Fuel-filler cap jams
· Right-side muffler begins to sag
· $600 lamb's-wool floor mats foul clutch and accelerator pedals
· Air-conditioning condensation tube strikes pavement
· Accelerator linkage binds
· Climate-control panel unfastens; appears it may fall out of dash
· Hand-brake lever is wobbling
· Driver-side door is unwilling to open entirely
The Ferrari feels more solidly built and understandably so: It comes from Maranello attached to fewer pieces that can fall off. Some fall anyway. The driver's door shifts on its hinges and begins to bind, grazing the blood-red paint. Until Murphy can adjust it, we are asked to scramble out of the car via the passenger's door. Impersonating the Diablo, the F40's driver-side lap belt refuses to retract. The rear brakes don't just squeal, they scream. And the latches that hold the entire nosepiece begin to work loose, creating at 40 mph a unique whole-car harmonic that motivates Murphy to poke most of his slim torso out the passenger window so he can observe what is clattering. Fort Lauderdale passers-by are transfixed: here for their pre-Christmas entertainment is what appears to be a college professor who will momentarily fall out of a moving Ferrar
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Back in the 90s, you didn't buy an exotic car to drive even semi-regularly, they just weren't built for it.
Starting with the Gallardo for Lamborghini, the company began producing cars you could actually drive every day if you wanted to, thanks to reaping the benefits of being under their new owners, Audi AG. Ferrari, you could argue this came about with the introduction of the Ferrari 360 or F430.
It has only gotten better since, but yeah, there are definitely a lot of quirks of ownership that frankly aren't acceptable when spending condo money on a car.
Back in the 90s, you didn't buy an exotic car to drive even semi-regularly, they just weren't built for it.
Starting with the Gallardo for Lamborghini, the company began producing cars you could actually drive every day if you wanted to, thanks to reaping the benefits of being under their new owners, Audi AG. Ferrari, you could argue this came about with the introduction of the Ferrari 360 or F430.
It has only gotten better since, but yeah, there are definitely a lot of quirks of ownership that frankly aren't acceptable when spending condo money on a car.
I used to work with a guy who daily drove his Gallardo in the winter. He drove his Aventador in the summer. Surface parked them in the office parking lot, no big deal apparently. Just amazing cars.
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Any suggestions for parking a car for several months to prevent a thief snatching a catalytic converter? Fence on one side but what about someone coming from the other side or the rear?
Any suggestions for parking a car for several months to prevent a thief snatching a catalytic converter? Fence on one side but what about someone coming from the other side or the rear?
Park it tight against a wall/bushes and secure it with a cable lock or something?
Basically one of those, "You can never completely prevent it, but at least make it a PITA to accomplish" situations?
Park it over that one puddle in your neighbourhood that never seems to go away, even when it's dry out.
But seriously, I think you'd be better off finding some sort of secured parking accommodations for months at a time. Is this in a back lane or something, I can't imagine any public street parking where you'd be immediately up against a fence. Any sort of public road or laneway, some jerkface could call it in as a derelict or abandoned vehicle and you'd have to get it out of the impound.
Can a catalytic converter be easily taken from the rear. I may have a lead on a spot between a garage and a fence that will prevent theft from either side.
Is it possible you're worrying too much about an unlikely scenario? If you're not parking in some ####ty neighbourhood, I'm sure it'll be fine. No sense stressing about it imo.
Can a catalytic converter be easily taken from the rear. I may have a lead on a spot between a garage and a fence that will prevent theft from either side.
