Those are all very good looking cars. Designed very tastefully. I'd drive either in a second.
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'04 Boxster S 50 Jahre 550 Spyder Anniversary Special Edition, 851 of 1953, 6-sp, IMS/RMS, GT Metallic silver, cocoa brown leather SOLD to member Broken Linkage.
'08 VW Touareg T-3 wife's car
'13 F150 Super Crew long bed 4x4 w/ Ego Boost
I would have no problem driving that other than the purchase price. I showed the pics to my wife she said she would love to go get groceries in that !
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2002 Boxster S Arctic Silver with black top with glass window and black leather interior. Jake Raby 3.6 SS ( the beast ) with IMS Solution. 996 GT3 front bumper , GT3 rocker covers and GT3TEK rear diffuser and Joe Toth composites rear ducktail spoiler .
One of the more interesting pieces of technology that I'm interested in is the side/rear view cameras. Not necessarily EV related, and not yet legal in the US (without standard mirrors). Wide angle-views projected just to the sides of the wheel would be nice. And yes, you should still turn your head to double-check!
^ I think these offerings by BMW and Porsche just make the value of the Tesla all the more apparent (granted a relative word in the luxury segment). Musk said that the Tesla is the most expensive car most of his buyers have ever purchased. That's a good stat to own when Porsche prices this Mission E car like a McLaren. If you're trying to hit big numbers within the educated wealthy segment of high tech cars then you need to watch that sticker price. Porsche and Tesla are not shooting to stay at small fry boutique company levels.
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nothing wrong with centerlocks. You just need a torque wrench for 350 ftlbs
if proper procedure is followed to the T, and it absolutely MUST be, there is no way you will gain a benefit in time spent removing CL wheels vs. the supposed rewards for these CL inventions on a road car. I still dont' get why they went this way on road cars...other than to make more cha ching on the sticker price. Everything gets more complicated... greasing the CL after each wheel removal, the extra cleaning, the more complicated procedure to simply flush brake lines, locking pin function that is affected by heat. CL must be a hoot on track days, especially for the techs doing CL inspections!
Generally speaking, it's A VERY BAD engineering idea to put something overly complicated on the wheels of a 600 HP car. I'd hate to be the guy in the car behind when an airborne CL wheel is coming towards my windshield simply because step #43 was done incorrectly by some just out of school tech at the dealership. But then of course those guys never make mistakes.
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GT3 Recaro Seats - Boxster Red
GT3 Aero / Carrera 18" 5 spoke / Potenza RE-11
Fabspeed Headers & Noise Maker
BORN: March 2000 - FINLAND
IMS#1 REPLACED: April 2010 - NEW JERSEY -- LNE DUAL ROW