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I've been pleasantly surprised by how many people are positively geeked out by seeing one here in Silicon Valley (I've only seen like 6 others ever so they're quite rare here). My other car is a red Lotus Elise, which gets a ton of attention (all positive) but simply because it's a microscopic...

Totally this, plus the fact that manual sports sedans these days are a lot harder to find than manual sports cars in the C7's era.

Really old guy (probably should not be driving anymore) gave my bumper a minor scrape trying to squeeze past me into a turn lane this morning :( But one positive was remembering that the car records video to an SD card, so I quickly and conveniently pulled it. God this car is awesome. I know...

Got an oil change, alignment done, and driver's seat lumbar/massage/bolster bladders replaced as they failed a few months ago. I really appreciate how cheap this thing is to maintain vs. the German competition. Oil change with 9qts of synthetic at the dealer in a HCOL area was $102.76. The...

These? Clear w/amber light? 2020-'24 CT5-V Blackwing Single Row LED Side Marker Lights

I think you can turn the auto-warming off if that's what you mean. And you can use My Mode - it's the only mode that stays on when you turn the car on the next time.

Gemini, then. Or Grok. Whatever.

Congrats! Are you planning to lend your 5BW to the Everyday Driver folks? They still haven't done a video one one.

"Vision is overrated." -Helen Keller, probably

I don't think they picked it as an all-time great - the feature on greatest American cars was a sidebar to their main story of the Celestiq. Without seeing the whole page for context, easy to misinterpret. Agree, the Lucid Air is lovely. I drove a base Pure trim the day after driving a base...

No noises at 19k on my '23 aside from the trunk lid creaking a little while opening.

I just got the latest issue of Car and Driver, and they had brief bit on the best American cars of all time. I don't know why it uploads sideways no matter how I rotate it, so you'll have to tilt your head... It's a short sentence. And props to the 4BW, too.

Good luck, haha. There's actually good space once you're in, it's just... getting in and out... Think of how agile the Emira felt compared to the Blackwing, then consider that an Emira is closer to a Blackwing in weight than it is to an Elise (Emira is 900lbs less than a 5BW, Elise is 1,250lbs...

That really sucks, I hadn't heard of that but it appears it's not uncommon at all. My other car is an '07 Elise (full fiberglass body) and there are no such issues - frustrating that they didn't figure that out for the Emira. Funny enough, owning a 5BW and Elise I wasn't all that amazed by my...

What's funny is after driving it from 66k to 95k miles in 6.5 years, I sold it for $5,200 more than I paid. E39 M5 have always had a huge price range between the 100k+ drivers (under $20k) and low-mileage, sought after color garage queens (6 figures).