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Look at options on any Euro Exotic. You could buy whole cars for some of the prices

Not Rosso? Still niiice. I wanted my Dad to buy a Fiat 125 (Poor man's Alfa) in the 60's, but he bought a Holden. Tragic.

But, you're happy, right? I'm envious. I should have bought one I saw here 2 years ago. Immaculate, $NZ30,000. I was so rapt up in the thing I didn't even notice the Ferrari Roma next to it.

I had a mental picture of a Darwin Awards vid.

Smooth is the word, sits at 630 rpm all day long. Well, 30 mins anyway.

It's a remake of the old joke, why do BMW's have big nostrils? Because air's free

Move here, you'll save tens of thousands. Buy one with your pocket change

Don't take it so seriously. The Jag example was of the old days when car makers lied through their teeth. They were so bad it was laughable. There's no way I'd use that as an actual example. I could also use the old European system of rating horsepower by capacity. EG, Ford Ten, ten was the...

2030 What's a car?

Good one! You nearly got me there. Does he spin the front wheels by hand up to 1500 or so rpm?

I wasn't talking about as new restoration. Just keeping a car going in good order. And, it's quite amazing what some restorers can do. Like rebuilding a 1980's Alfa dash display in "Home Built by Jeff".

OK, we don't get those. Imagine trying to recycle all these Chinese Ev's in 15 years time? I reckon there'll be quite a few LS conversions

OK. So don't you think the GT's 486 HP is real? One problem is all the different testing protocols for engine (crank) HP. Europe has DIN and KW, US uses SAE, BHP or, back in the day Gross HP, where all engine ancilliaries are not driven. It's a minefield. And, speaking of manufacturers BS...

No doubt, but I want less complexity in my car, not more. Imagine trying to revive an old hybrid or EV in 30 years time? Yet we still have F40's, Testarossa's and any number of classic 60 plus year old American iron running around.

It does, until that 4 litre N/A engine gets going and the megabuck chassis tuning gets to work.

Go ahead GM, ram a wooden stake through it's heart with a battery and electric motor.

I'm currently using sport mode around town to see how it feels and if there's any increase in gas useage. So far, so good, just a bit of hanging onto gears a tad too long. It certainly wakes the car up.

V1 Gen 2 plus JBV1 phone app as a display/controller. Unmatched by anything as a countermeasure suite. It'll even combine with some Lidar jammers.

Reviewers won't pull an engine out and bolt it to an engine dyno, and I don't completely trust inertia dyno caculations of crank HP either. I'm also amused when they do a dyno run to see how much power an older car has lost in X years. That's like estimating wind speed with a wet finger. Just...

Was that the same dyno used on this video?