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    🔖 Deals Verizon: Free Xbox Series X and $300 worth of Amazon Gift Cards

    This just popped across my Facebook and I hate Spectrum so I jumped on it quick. If you sign up for Verizon 5G home internet ($80/ month) they'll give you an Xbox Series X, $100 Amazon gift card and either an Echo Show 10 or another $200 Amazon gift card. You're not even under contract. The only...
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    Talk me out of or into a second gen NSX

    I've got the opportunity to buy a second gen NSX for what seems like an impossibly cheap price. $90,000. Off market deal. 2017, 14k miles. I looked at this car months ago and didn't pull the trigger on it because it had an ABS light on and I didn't have my code scanner. He was going to...
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    How are we all feeling about the Audi SQ7?

    I have a 2013 GL450. It's tuned. Makes absurd power. It has the ultra rare handling package with active swaybars that give it a turning radius smaller than our Model 3 and actually competent handling. Instead of driving like an SUV it drives like a big sedan. Not a sports car but so, so...
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    📰 Auto News Top Gear's best car of the last 30 years: It's not what you think

    https://www.topgear.com/car-news/top-gear-magazine/top-gears-best-car-last-30-years-winners-bmw-i8 Spoiler: It's the BMW i8 And I'll be honest, it's not what I would have thought either but I dig it. I've had mine for nearly four years now. I absolutely love it. It's a delight to drive once...
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    Canyon runs with crappy cars

    Some might know I rebuilt a Ghibli that I bought from an insurance auction. I purposely spec'd one of the "fun" ones: a 2017 Rear wheel drive Ghibli S. People love to rag on these but there is a lot to like here. Outside of the Chrysler parts bin interior, the Ghibli isn't just a re-badged FCA...
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    I need to know if I'm the asshole here

    Hey boys and girls. This is a long post. If you can't handle that, I get it. I am looking for serious responses though. This is not a shitpost. The Setup I purchased a Fisker Karma (actually two but that's neither here nor there) out of South Carolina. I was told by the previous owner that the...
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    🔧 BUILD Working my way to insolvency, Fisker Karma style

    So I bought a couple Fisker Karmas sight unseen wayyyyyyy back in November and had them shipped to San Francisco. Both cars were basket cases and I lost my ass on the deal. 4 months and $14,000 later, I have a running car with a check engine light, traction control light, a broken climate...
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    🔧 BUILD Mike K's Lamborghini Super Build

    This thread is for the general discussion of the Item Mike K's Lamborghini Super Build. Please add to the discussion here.
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    And now for my next trick

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    I'm slightly behind on things. Re: Jay Leno

    I was just watching Hoovie's video where he's driving Jay Leno's Mercedes 600. If you don't know about the Mercedes 600, read. This car is so incredibly cool. It had a bunch of features that were way ahead of their time and many of them were powered by a hydraulic mineral oil system. And this is...
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    ⚡ EV Oops, I did it again. V.Fisker Karma

    I'm on an obscure cars for sale group on Facebook and this popped up a couple days ago. $13,500. Doesn't turn on. Basically what happens is the 12v battery in these gets too low to engage the high voltage battery so it can charge the 12v battery and then it just fizzles and dies until the car...
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    TV Post Humous Comedy Specials.

    Did anyone watch Norm MacDonald's last special on Netflix? It seemed almost unwatchable to me. Not because Norm isn't funny or because the material was bad but because there was nobody for him to feed off of and it makes watching comedy really difficult. I've been sitting on terabytes of Ralphie...
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    Who's bought a car from Co-Part before?

    I just bought my first. I've heard horror stories of cars going to auction several times and being picked over or "enhanced" cars being partially fixed so they don't look as bad as they actually are. So my rules were no airbag deployment beyond steering wheel, no enhanced vehicles and only run...
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    Best sounding naturally aspirated engines: drop them here.

    I'll start. I had an e39 with no mufflers. You'd think that would be loud but I didn't realize until I had owned the car for two weeks that it didn't have them. It just sounded... amazing. My second pick is the V10 Audi S8. Here's mine. No resonators. Give me your favorites. Have to be...
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    Best car you've ever sold to get the worse car you actually wanted

    I want to hear about the objective downgrades. The switches the car community would chastise you for. I'll kick it off. I sold a fully sorted, sub-100k mile Lemans Blue, 2001 M5 because the car I really loved was my V10 S8. Top that.
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    One neat trick to totaling your exotic car (number 4 is like woah!)

    So I've have had my i8 for a little over two years now. It's my first big "exotic" and yes I use the word exotic loosely here but whatever. Over the years I've wondered if I should upgrade to an F430, an LP570-2 or even a newer NSX. Ultimately I find that nothing matches the performance per...
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    Hybrid Thread: Cars and Bids & Audi S8 Bonus content

    Anyone with experience using Cars and Bids? The S8 just went live today... https://carsandbids.com/auctions/30bgRMg1/2007-audi-s8?utm_source=transactional&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=button
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    Let's talk about cashing in on lease cars

    I got separated/ divorced in 2018. My ex wife had zero credit and no car to take our children in. So I leased her an E-Golf (her choice). The lease is ending on that and obviously we all know about the used car market being what it is. So I asked her how many miles she has on it. 6000. Cool! So...
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    NEW RIDE Mike K gonna Mike K

    Sold the Karma last week. Took the money I made from that and told myself it was time for either a manual transmission F10 535 or a manual transmission V10 M5. I’ve never been a huge fan of the e39 M5s because I like my creature comforts but CarPlay retrofits have kind of fixed that and god...
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    Mike K 2000's Performance Sedan Super Showdown!

    Cast your vote so I can tell you why it's wrong and do what I was going to do anyhow! The Fisker Karma is (almost) sold which leaves me with my seed money ($21,000) and another $14,000 in profit. If you haven't been following my saga, the name of the game is to buy cars I like, enjoy them, and...