Count Luca

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@hjwakerley Has anyone written a paper on who Mansory's customers are and why they think owning a car with their...additions... is a good idea?

I think there's a real social science piece here as, to most civilised folk, the "revised," cars are, at best, extremely challenging to the eye.

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@AutoPap @thealexbear I bought a 1 owner 1980s 911 in 2006. It's worth ~5x what I paid for it and, in cash terms (value minus bills minus cost) it has has cost money. Adding inflation = costing more money.

It has, however, been great fun and much cheaper than buying a new/newish Golf every decade

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@AutoPap @thealexbear I agree! There are enough parts on these cars that are virtually guaranteed to fail (dynamic engine mounts) that are equal / greater than the warranty cost. Plus coverage for larger items (engines) failure of which, whilst rare, isn't unknown.

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@sniffpetrol Is the papal interest in the car as it makes neither black nor white smoke so is unlikely to cause cardinal offence or incense bystanders?

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@hjwakerley My 1988 911 3.2 Cabrio.

No, it's not very good but it's just as I would have specified, I bought it from the first owner and I have had it almost 20 years.

5 mins after I bought it I got the call to say my father was (unexpectedly) in hospital. That story didn't end as well.

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@sniffpetrol Stellantis remix?

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@baylissrally Mais non, c'est Saint Martin de Ré!

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@RoadworkUK @CoreyLewis86

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@theintercoolerx 2026 A110 and 2020 982. Cornerstones of the sensible 3 car solution.

The A110 covers British b roads like nothing else.

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@autocar Are the 1990s Simpsons fans taking over Stellantis?

https://t.co/rirfFnqVRD

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@GingerPiston @sniffpetrol I think that will come with the Stellantis "STLA" remix

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@jasonplato His fever was infectious and we're all so fortunate to have caught a little of it. I hope never to find a cure.
#Fever

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@DanNeidle @ConcernedofBri1 @paullewismoney I was visiting my mother last week and she was having her garden fence changed. The fencer was restricting his workload to keep his turnover under VAT-registration as the impact of going over are too great...and he can't grow his business to a size where it's absorbable.

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@thecarsthestar @5054magazine Cooper S? I think they were Euro IV but theOne and Cooper were Euro III

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@5054magazine It wasn’t terribly reliable… Wiring looms, PAS pumps, stereos; the list could go on…but many repeated / plural failures.

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@SimonCarGuy @AutoPap My mother had an E91 for 13 years. She loved the car and her dealer treated her like visiting royalty.

When it was time to replace, last year, I suggested she look at another BMW and her response was, "I don't think I can own anything that ugly."

Bring on the Neue Klasse!

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@archer_rs He has clearly read no (or maybe just the first half) of Douglas Adams:

“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”

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@sniffpetrol They did put some through rental fleets in 2008; I carry considerable guilt for how “robustly,” I drove one for which I was the first renter.

I feel less guilt for the Vectra I had / ran in the next week (appropriately registered AN08…) which somehow still seems to be alive.

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@AntoineNivola Many congratulations! What a gorgeous car!