well it's certainly not that they are rational or cheap to fix, but on the other hand, you WOULD be driving a 6.3 or 6.9.

when I get disgusted with costs and whatnot on my 6.9, I try to imagine what else I could be driving. Within limits, I could be driving just about anything.

Then I look at new or newer cars and weep for all the little polyesters who have given their lives so that somebody can have a nylon dashboard with vibrofoam inserts.

It makes me want to puke I tell ya.

I read all the comments from the sheep who think the styling on the 6.9 is VAHHSTLY inferior to the 6.3. They repeat what they've heard. 6.3s are funky and classic. Beautiful and I like em. Styling is subjective. I like my 116. It's the product of the experimental safety vehicle and blah blah blah. It's big and it's outrageous and it's just right when too much is barely enough.

These are not cars for the Jalopinist.

You're not gonna pick one up for a song and have it deliver 100k trouble-free miles. I suspect you are going to get one for all the right reasons. The same reasons that make owning one a sickness rather than a hobby. And I mean sickness in the kindest possible way.

I raise my cup to you in a toast.