Recent content by hbar

Emira owner

As an addendum, drive The Ridge for a track day. It's really fun for a local track, even if it is quite out of the way to get to.

I'm a lifetime local to the area and have been driving sports cars here for decades. There are a lot of good roads pretty convenient to Kirkland. It's certainly gotten harder as the area has grown, as some formerly good roads are now fairly dangerous to drive quickly, as the amount of traffic...

This thread is so interesting. You see so many different perspectives on how to handle money, including among highly financially successful people. This is an example. My mortgage is around 2.5%. I could easily pay it off, but instead I have the remaining balance in things like government bonds...

Just got mine. It's fantastic! It's better than I remember from my test drive. Breaking it in is going to be painful. I'm ready to let it rev. I really love is that it is fantastic to drive without lots of the artificial theatrics that lots of the recent sports cars I've driven have. It sounds...

Did they buy the cybertruck, maybe at the end of the video? I just watched the first few minutes, and they said it wasn't theirs.

My guess is launch mode is cutting power at launch to avoid wheel spin.

Hmm. I see BaT price as sale price * 1.05, in order to include fees. Certainly that's how I would calculate it as a buyer. As far as I can tell, this is pretty consistent with what is being described above in the private market. High 80s for nice recent manual Evora GT. Sample size is small, and...

The link above should show all recent Evora GT sales on BaT for the last couple years. Low to mid 80s seems to be the going rate, post fees. Maybe high 80s if you ignore the automatics (I definitely wouldn't get an automatic, personally!)

Looks like low-mid 80s for BaT Lotus Evora GT after fees are factored in. Not a deep liquid, market, so it's a bit hard to say what the value really is. https://bringatrailer.com/search/?s=lotus+evora+GT Bid is to 101K on the Emira, so over 106K after fees with a day left. Overall, my...

Higher than I would have expected by now, 98K. I guess FE1 MSRP is in the rearview and FE2 MSRP after BaT fees is getting very close. My general sense is that there is not a lot of inventory yet. I only see a few listings that look real online, all over 110. It's going to be interesting to see...

Having them all come in as a group like this is going to be interesting, marketwise.

Going to be very curious how the sale goes.

If I get offered 50k over . . . Instant flipper. That's a lot of money to make on a 93k purchase. That said, my personal prediction is premiums will be less and I will keep my car for years!

Obviously no Emiras to compare to, but where I live in the US I am seeing GTS 4.0s and GT4s going for less than sticker just a few months old even though they are still rare. That was not happening a year ago. I'm expecting my Emira to depreciate too. Boom is over.