Anyone else get banned from the G8X section for making fun of its looks?

[Tecnniqe]

Originally Posted by minn19

Geezus, I thought I and my friends were nuts when we were young.

What a bunch of assholes, “it’s only the bumper.” At least it should be easy for the cops to find out who did it and they can compel the influencers to pay for the damage or replace his Subi.

Still beats me how a rental ends up like this and the police having no suspect :

Don't they have rental papers and agreements with names and IDs?

[No Boost]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

(…not including the Guards Red GT3 I pulled over a few months ago).

How considerate of him...

[Sedan_Clan]

Originally Posted by Tecnniqe

Still beats me how a rental ends up like this and the police having no suspect :

Don't they have rental papers and agreements with names and IDs?

Authorities know who the suspect is.

[Tecnniqe]

Originally Posted by Sedan_Clan

Authorities know who the suspect is.

Oh okay. Figured they didn't because of them putting out a bounty

[swagon]

Visited the BMW Welt and Museum. Shout out security guy for hooking it up with this spot and shout out random 1 M Coupe driver for parking it in front of me. Real recognise real.

The cars in the museum have somehow become better-looking.

[icegrill]

Originally Posted by Arcades

I wish your patrol was around Ktown.

Was there today, was sped past by a Orange .2 GT3RS and a Lambo Hurrican. Both exhaust modded, driving like a maniac on public streets. Then there was a poor Caddy CTS-V (I think) among them.

I was thinking you can pull both the lambo and GT3RS over for dangerous driving and not having a proper license plate. Lambo had Gintani plates on…

Then let the poor Caddy off with a warning.

I wonder how much gas those dummies ran through driving like that in 1st to 3rd gear, purposely high revving. Well they probably didn't even hit 3rd by the sounds of it.

Citizens arrest time

[stein_325i]

Originally Posted by minn19

File under nobody cares……….Ford gave me $5500 to get out of my F-150 lease 6 months early and I used that to buy a used (7000 miles) four door 2020 TRD Sport Taco. So far going to do the OEM lift kit, different wheels with on/off road tires and some other accessories. Then add a Magnusson Supercharger. Will be a fun DD, light trail and toy hauler.

Congrats on the new Taco. Its gonna look great with all the off-road mods/accessories.

[Tecnniqe]

Originally Posted by minn19

File under nobody cares……….Ford gave me $5500 to get out of my F-150 lease 6 months early and I used that to buy a used (7000 miles) four door 2020 TRD Sport Taco. So far going to do the OEM lift kit, different wheels with on/off road tires and some other accessories. Then add a Magnusson Supercharger. Will be a fun DD, light trail and toy hauler.

You gotta show us the final product
Grats on the new ride

[GrussGott]

Originally Posted by swagon

Visited the BMW Welt and Museum. Shout out security guy for hooking it up with this spot and shout out random 1 M Coupe driver for parking it in front of me. Real recognise real.

Nice! If it all works out I should be there in 6 months - been too long!

[Multimodal]

Guys, I hate to tell you this, but there’s a G80 M3C at Sonoma Raceway today, being used how it should be, and it looks great. Tanzanite Blue II + Black Leather Carbon Buckets.

[swagon]

Originally Posted by GrussGott

Nice! If it all works out I should be there in 6 months - been too long!

Not much is different, maybe the prices in the souvenirs shops have gone up, but it's still nice. What a great move by BMW to build the Welt really.

Hopefully, there will be fewer C19 measures in Germany by the time you arrive, and the Olympiapark will have been power-washed by then. 50th anniversary of the whole thing this year.

[swagon]

Originally Posted by Mr. Maboomba

Guys, I hate to tell you this, but there’s a G80 M3C at Sonoma Raceway today, being used how it should be, and it looks great. Tanzanite Blue II + Black Leather Carbon Buckets.

[Multimodal]

Originally Posted by Mr. Maboomba

Guys, I hate to tell you this, but there’s a G80 M3C at Sonoma Raceway today, being used how it should be, and it looks great. Tanzanite Blue II + Black Leather Carbon Buckets.

But you’re all probably more jazzed by these classics.

[stein_325i]

Originally Posted by Mr. Maboomba

But you’re all probably more jazzed by these classics.

That's more like it

[GrussGott]

Originally Posted by Mr. Maboomba

Guys, I hate to tell you this, but there’s a G80 M3C at Sonoma Raceway today, being used how it should be, and it looks great. Tanzanite Blue II + Black Leather Carbon Buckets.

You might've had us, had you not posted pics! ... but the pig snout and protruding anus gave it away.

Nope, still looks like a swine ejecting its intestines.

[GrussGott]

Someone asked if it was stripped of one-time items like Benz's heavy truck sale & Ford's Rivian stake, so here are the stripped numbers:

Overall corporate profit stripped of one-time items:



More importantly, profit per unit (revenue stripped):



Interesting points to me:

(1.) The old wisdom on volume is dead
High volume doesn't mean shit, profit comes from pricing power

(2.) Tesla Profits
8th most profitable auto company in the World, 2nd highest per unit profit (that's luxury!)

(3.) Tesla Supply
And Tesla is opening 2 factories this quarter, with 2 more expansions by year's end, and 2 more in planning.

[Tecnniqe]

Originally Posted by Mr. Maboomba

But you’re all probably more jazzed by these classics.

Now we're talking

[minn19]

Thought this thread was pretty interesting discussion. Talking about the GT4RS (and other Porsches) in general mainly going into the hands of collectors etc. Shame most of those cars will be just some rich guys art for F U money.

https://rennlist.com/forums/718-gts-...anium-car.html

[Arcades]

Originally Posted by minn19

Thought this thread was pretty interesting discussion. Talking about the GT4RS (and other Porsches) in general mainly going into the hands of collectors etc. Shame most of those cars will be just some rich guys art for F U money.

https://rennlist.com/forums/718-gts-...anium-car.html

I seen that thread. Was saying this is going to be the case and until Porsche corporate does something about it like Ford is now attempting to do, Porsche dealerships will continue and always chase $$ by marking up cars like this and we cannot do a damn thing about it but complain.

I don't really ever see Porsche take Ford's route of maybe selling directly to consumers because they want their customers to have an experience in buying but, buying a car means nothing if the prices are this extreme with markup.

[minn19]

Originally Posted by Arcades

I seen that thread. Was saying this is going to be the case and until Porsche corporate does something about it like Ford is now attempting to do, Porsche dealerships will continue and always chase $$ by marking up cars like this and we cannot do a damn thing about it but complain.

I don't really ever see Porsche take Ford's route of maybe selling directly to consumers because they want their customers to have an experience in buying but, buying a car means nothing if the prices are this extreme with markup.

Agreed. Right now friggen new 992 anything seems unobtainable.

Been scouring used ones across the country and they are all going for over their original MSRPs. It’s crazy.

[RugbyBro]

Originally Posted by minn19

Thought this thread was pretty interesting discussion. Talking about the GT4RS (and other Porsches) in general mainly going into the hands of collectors etc. Shame most of those cars will be just some rich guys art for F U money.

https://rennlist.com/forums/718-gts-...anium-car.html

So true tho. If this car becomes unobtanium, the sad part is most will just sit in people’s garages. I’m hoping these go the way of most Porsches (noticed this with 991.2 GT3s) - very hyped upon release, eventually production catches up to demand towards EOL and this car gets over shadowed by the next GT release, people can finally get one at or close to MSRP.

Originally Posted by minn19

Agreed. Right now friggen new 992 anything seems unobtainable.

Been scouring used ones across the country and they are all going for over their original MSRPs. It’s crazy.

992.1 seems like it’s Porsche’s lost generation. Might end up being pretty rare in the grand scheme of things. Hardly see any around

[CanAutM3]

Originally Posted by GrussGott

Someone asked if it was stripped of one-time items like Benz's heavy truck sale & Ford's Rivian stake, so here are the stripped numbers:

Overall corporate profit stripped of one-time items:



More importantly, profit per unit (revenue stripped):



Interesting points to me:

(1.) The old wisdom on volume is dead
High volume doesn't mean shit, profit comes from pricing power

(2.) Tesla Profits
8th most profitable auto company in the World, 2nd highest per unit profit (that's luxury!)

(3.) Tesla Supply
And Tesla is opening 2 factories this quarter, with 2 more expansions by year's end, and 2 more in planning.

Tesla=subsidized profit

If it were not for the government incentives, Tesla would not be as profitable…