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08/31/2026

Ferrari named it 12Cilindri because “you will not be starting this at 6am” was already taken.

pipes, 819 horsepower, 9,500 rpm, zero turbos. Ferrari’s still building the noisy thing everyone else replaced with a battery and a speaker.

I watched two 2003 Ferrari 360 Modenas sell four days apart last month and I’m still thinking about it.One brought $144,...
08/25/2026

I watched two 2003 Ferrari 360 Modenas sell four days apart last month and I’m still thinking about it.

One brought $144,000. The other brought $293,500.

Same year. Same body. Same engine sitting behind your head.

What separated them was 5,000 miles and a third pedal.

The miles don’t get you there. Our board prices 360 mileage at about $5.29 a mile, so call the odometer $26,000 of it. That leaves roughly $123,000 sitting on the gearbox.

And it wasn’t a fluke. Split every sale on the board by transmission and the F1 cars land at $111,000. The factory six speeds land at $293,500. Classic.com runs softer than we do but it leans the same way, $83,369 against $151,084.

Here’s the part that should bother you.

Our fair number on a 360 reads $148,823. Only four of the twenty sales came anywhere near it. That number lives in the empty space between two markets and nobody actually paid it.

So why does the pedal keep winning? About a quarter of 360s left Maranello with the gated box. On the F430 it’s closer to one in ten. On the 458 you couldn’t order one at all. That pool is never getting bigger.

Meanwhile the F1 cars keep handing their owners clutch and pump bills, which quietly pushes the next buyer toward the manual anyway or going manual conversion.

Figure out the gearbox before you argue about the price. And if somebody quotes you fair on a 360 without asking what’s between the seats, they’re guessing.

DM “360” and I’ll send you the full report.

Eight years, a lot of miles, not one bad memory. The ‘18 Raptor has been part of Drive Theory story since the beginning,...
08/17/2026

Eight years, a lot of miles, not one bad memory. The ‘18 Raptor has been part of Drive Theory story since the beginning, and today it goes to its next owner.

Replacing it: a 2026 Raptor R.

Huge thanks to Norris Ford for making the allocation happen. Allocations on these don’t just show up. Relationships make them show up.

If you’ve been hunting a clean sub 100k ‘18 Raptor, ours is sitting on their lot. Go talk to them.

First stop before anything else is PPF and tint with Forza Filmwerks. After that, we’ve got plans. You’ll see.

The feeling of a properly set up car is the best feeling in the world.It’s hard to describe if you haven’t experienced i...
08/04/2026

The feeling of a properly set up car is the best feeling in the world.

It’s hard to describe if you haven’t experienced it. Power, response, handling, and feel all working together instead of fighting each other. The
car stops arguing with you. Every input gets an honest answer. Once you get it right, you never want to let it go.

At Porschefest, our Lancer Evo was right. As close to perfect as this car has ever been.

That didn’t happen by accident. The crew at GT Performance Inc helped us chase down cooling for both the car and the driver, then dialed the suspension to near perfect. What you see in these slides is what that work looks like from the outside. An Evo on old tires with a 992 GT3 in its windshield, then in its mirrors.

People see the pass. They don’t see the hours underneath it. Can’t say enough about the work that goes into getting a car to this point. Much appreciation to the folks at GT Performance Inc .

Full onboard is on our YouTube, link in bio.

PCA Potomac Region Porschefest recap:1. We brought a Mitsubishi to Porschefest.2. We camped at the track all weekend. Ca...
07/29/2026

PCA Potomac Region Porschefest recap:
1. We brought a Mitsubishi to Porschefest.
2. We camped at the track all weekend. Calling it camping is generous, the RV was fully decked out. This was a bucket list thing and we enjoyed every minute of it.
3. Family and a few friends came through, which made the weekend that much better.
4. And the biggest win: a modified Evo making less than 400hp, on old tires, not getting completely gapped by a Porsche 992 GT3.

Swipe through the pictures. Summit Point was wall to wall Porsches (with some other makes sprinkled in) and we shot the ones that stopped us walking. The Carrera GT and the GT2 RS Clubsport earned extra frames.

Full onboard of the chase is on our YouTube, link in bio.

Special Thanks Goes To : GT Performance Inc for getting our car ready. They do amazing work that translates to us being able to have a 20 year old keep up with a modern new car.

Also to Jeffrey Jenkins for keeping me physically/mentally in the game.

07/25/2026

Summit Point, PorscheFest. The paddock went quiet for about eight seconds.
5.7 liter V10, 605 hp, redline at 8,400. Nothing built since sounds like this and nothing ever will again.

$93,890 for a BMW M3. That happened in June.It was a 2011 with 8,000 miles. One day earlier, a 110,000 mile Competition ...
07/22/2026

$93,890 for a BMW M3. That happened in June.

It was a 2011 with 8,000 miles. One day earlier, a 110,000 mile Competition car brought $44,900. Same year, same S65 V8. The difference was the odometer and nothing else.

That’s the E92 market right now. The middle is calm. Our board reads $41,000 fair across 35 observations, and Classic.com puts the generation’s lifetime average at $38,362. No drama there. The drama lives at the edges, where driver cars still trade in the twenties and thirties while low mile cars have quietly stopped being cheap.

Here’s what most people miss. BMW built a V8 M3 exactly once. 414 horsepower, 8,400 rpm, then they went turbo and never looked back. The E46 crowd already had their run. This is the next analog M car in line, and the guys who wanted one new in 2008 are hitting their peak earning years.

The move today: three cars on our board carry real asking prices, and every one sits under the $41,000 fair read. The best is 9.8% under. If you’ve been waiting for an entry, this is what one looks like.

We run this board daily inside our app The Hunt by Drive Theory. 12 feeds, auction blocks to dealer lots, deduped and priced against fair before you ever make an offer.

DM “M3” and the full report is yours. Members saw it first. They always do.

The NSX market, read cold.Two ‘91 NSXs sold three days apart this month. One brought $109,500. The other brought $70,000...
07/20/2026

The NSX market, read cold.

Two ‘91 NSXs sold three days apart this month. One brought $109,500. The other brought $70,000. Same year, same spec. The difference was 23,000 miles. Right now the market is pricing NSX miles at about a dollar each.

Zoom out and the direction is obvious. The first gen car has averaged $95,702 across 462 recorded sales. The last five weeks alone cleared a median of $100,450, and the best car brought $178,000. When one month of sales sits above the entire history of the model, that isn’t noise. That’s a market on the move.

Why? The guys who had this car on a poster finally have real money. Nobody builds a naturally aspirated supercar with a gated manual anymore, so the supply is what it is and it shrinks every year. And clean Japanese metal has quietly become a place people park money.

The sharpest edge is the 2000 to 2002 3.2L six speeds. Three sold in the last month. None under $147,000. A 22k mile 2000 NSX-T just brought $178,000.

Meanwhile there are 41 cars listed right now asking anywhere from $60k to $275k. Sellers are guessing. The data isn’t. One of those cars is sitting 39% under fair value as you read this.

This is The Hunt. Live market reads on the cars our members are chasing, pulled from 12 sources. Auctions, marketplaces, dealer feeds. Tell us what you’re hunting and you get the board before you ever make an offer.

DM “NSX” for the full report. First look goes to members. Every time.

The best cars are sold before they are ever listed.
The right phone call. The car that never made it to the internet. Th...
07/18/2026

The best cars are sold before they are ever listed.

The right phone call. The car that never made it to the internet. The one that quietly changed hands between two people who knew each other.

That is the market our members just got access to.

The Hunt is live. Tell us what you are chasing, and we find it. Off-market, private sellers, the cars that stall at auction, the allocations everyone wants and nobody can get.

First look goes to members. Every time.

DM if you are interested in getting a sneak peek 🫣.

06/23/2026

The one part your hand never leaves. Worth getting right.

Two custom shifters from — one for the 997.2, one for the 986. Different cars, same obsession with the details that most people overlook.

This is the stuff that separates a car from a build.

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