SSO’s Supercar Plans for 2022
Sitting here on a cold sunny Saturday morning in January watching the colors of dawn poking through the forest, got me thinking about what 2022 will bring in terms of both already planned new arrivals in the garage, another addition I am seriously considering (it’s been submitted for Use Case testing), and a few other cars I would like to…
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Aston Martin: Earnings Warning & Potential CEO Exit
I wasn’t planning on writing another article on Aston Martin until they released their full 2021 results in February. Friday’s Trading Update announcement, along with the rumors of Tobias Moers imminent departure, have thrown a wrench in those plans. I’ve gotten quite a number of requests for comment on these latest developments, so I’ve tried to pull together a few…
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The SSO Awards: 2021
In this final article of 2021, what has been another unprecedented year, I’ve put together my annual SSO Awards list covering the automotive universe in general. In putting this year’s awards list together, I would like to first acknowledge that I have no real basis to be doing this (that’s better left up to the professional journalists and those that…
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Anticipation Grows – The SCG 004S
It’s been about six months since I last posted an update on the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG) 004s’ development (1st Impressions, the SCG004S). I had just had the chance to visit the new SCG factory in Danbury, Connecticut and see a couple of the 004S development mules. I was very fortunate to have Jim Glickenhaus provide a personal tour and…
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Ferrari F40: Looking Back on the Last 15 Years
We have owned our Ferrari F40 for just over 15 years now. This is twice as long as I have ever owned any other car. In those 15 years, I’ve driven it 30,000 miles across 11 different countries. The F40 has had one major engine rebuild, two new clutches, and one new set of fuel cells. Our various adventures over…
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Aston Martin: Earnings Warning & Potential CEO Exit
I wasn’t planning on writing another article on Aston Martin until they released their full 2021 results in February. Friday’s Trading Update announcement, along with the rumors of Tobias Moers imminent departure, have thrown a wrench in those plans. I’ve gotten quite a number of requests for comment on these latest developments, so I’ve tried to pull together a few…
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The SSO Awards: 2021
In this final article of 2021, what has been another unprecedented year, I’ve put together my annual SSO Awards list covering the automotive universe in general. In putting this year’s awards list together, I would like to first acknowledge that I have no real basis to be doing this (that’s better left up to the professional journalists and those that…
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Continuing Saga of Aston Martin: CFO Jumps Ship
I wasn’t originally planning on writing another article on Aston Martin until they released their full year 2021 results in Feb 2022 but two things this week changed that plan. First off, the CFO Kenneth Gregor, resigned, secondly, Business F1 published an article in their December edition stating that it is now unlikely that Aston Martin will deliver any Valkyries…
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Analysis of Aston Martin’s Q3 2021 Results
Aston Martin reported their Q3 2021 results last Wednesday. They were broadly in line with expectation and the stock finished up just under 2% on the day which appears positive at first glance until you consider that Aston Martin’s stock is down 20% in the last 3 months. Aston Martin indicated that they are on track to deliver their full…
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Supercar Market Insights & Analysis – Sept 2021
I’ve refrained from doing a market update for the past several months as a lot of what was happening in the car market overall just didn’t make a lot of sense. I’m not sure it still does but post the Monterey Auctions, there is a bit more data to at least wade through. Back in January 2021, I summarized the…
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Thoughts: Ferrari SUV, Aston Martin, SCG, GMA & More
I thought I would share a few thoughts and observations on a number of things that have recently caught my attention in the auto universe. None of these has enough depth for a full blog in their own right but thought they were still worthy of sharing. What the future will look like in six months is anyone’s guess but…
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Monterey Car Week Report 2019
This was our first time at Monterey Car Week. I would probably best describe Car Week as combination of the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival spread out over multiple stunning locations and then supersized in the best American tradition. We arrived on Wednesday late afternoon and departed the following Monday morning (see: McLaren 675LT Spider Road Trip). In between, it was…
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Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible
Weekend With A Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible Courtesy of Park Place, our local supercar dealer, we recently spent a few days living with a Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible. Bentley is a brand that has been slowly growing on me over the last couple of months. This transformation started with the Mulsanne short termer we had last autumn. While…
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Bentley Bentayga
Weekend With A Bentley Bentayga We recently spent 36 hours living with a Bentley Bentayga. Our loaner car was a pearly white and instantly earned the nickname “Beluga”. Going in, it was a car I wanted to hate. It represents just about everything I try to avoid when choosing a preferred mode of transportation. It is huge, heavy, and about…
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SSO’s Supercar Plans for 2022
Sitting here on a cold sunny Saturday morning in January watching the colors of dawn poking through the forest, got me thinking about what 2022 will bring in terms of both already planned new arrivals in the garage, another addition I am seriously considering (it’s been submitted for Use Case testing), and a few other cars I would like to…
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The SSO Awards: 2021
In this final article of 2021, what has been another unprecedented year, I’ve put together my annual SSO Awards list covering the automotive universe in general. In putting this year’s awards list together, I would like to first acknowledge that I have no real basis to be doing this (that’s better left up to the professional journalists and those that…
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Ferrari F40: Looking Back on the Last 15 Years
We have owned our Ferrari F40 for just over 15 years now. This is twice as long as I have ever owned any other car. In those 15 years, I’ve driven it 30,000 miles across 11 different countries. The F40 has had one major engine rebuild, two new clutches, and one new set of fuel cells. Our various adventures over…
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Analysis & Insights on Ferrari’s Q3 2021 Results
If putting together last week’s article on Aston Martin’s Q3 results (Aston Martin Q3 2021) was an exercise in digging through a vat of lipstick to find one rather annoyed pig at the bottom, Ferrari’s Q3 results are a case study in what highly competent management team, executing a clear strategy, that’s supported by wise forward thinking ownership looks like. …
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Supercar Market Insights & Analysis – Sept 2021
I’ve refrained from doing a market update for the past several months as a lot of what was happening in the car market overall just didn’t make a lot of sense. I’m not sure it still does but post the Monterey Auctions, there is a bit more data to at least wade through. Back in January 2021, I summarized the…
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Planning Our 1st Epic Drive of 2021
I have hope that things will get better this year with the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccines and that by September or October a road trip will be possible. In great anticipation, I reached out to a group of friends with whom we have been doing road trips for over a decade now to gauge interest. It’s a great…
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Porsche Carrera GT to a Beneteau Oceanis 51.1
A Porsche Carrera GT has been near the top of my bucket list for quite a few years now. This year, for the first time in a while, the stars all started to align, and it looked like it might actually happen. Then Covid-19 hit, lockdowns were imposed, social distancing became the in trend for 2020, and the Carrera GT…
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To Cork or Not to Cork?
Editor’s Note: The following article was written by my brother, the Wine Collector (his wine cellar is probably worth more than my garage). The Wine Collector is a bit of a car enthusiast himself and he has owned a Ferrari 430 Spider for many years. Do screw cap wines and supercars go together? You don’t buy a Ferrari or a…
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Supercar Road Trip: Part 3
We recently moved from Texas back to near where I grew up in New England. As part of the move, Mrs. SSO and I decided to drive the Maserati Granturismo Cabrio and the McLaren 650S Spider respectively the 1,800 miles northeast. This would be the first time Mrs. SSO and I had done a road trip driving in tandem. As…
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Supercar Road Trip: Part 1
We recently moved from Texas back to near where I grew up in New England. As part of the move, Mrs. SSO and I decided to drive the Maserati Granturismo Cabrio and the McLaren 650S Spider respectively the 1,800 miles northeast. This would be the first time Mrs. SSO and I had done a road trip driving in tandem. As…
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The Use Case Rule of Car Collecting
Earlier this year I met a wise experienced car connoisseur over zoom (it is 2020). This gentleman has owned a number of cars that have also passed through our garage over the years (including a Ferrari F50, 16M, McLaren 675LT) along with at least one that I can only dream of (McLaren F1). He introduced me to the “Use Case…
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Our Other Sports Cars
Almost all of the articles I’ve written have been on the supercars we have owned over the years. Both before and alongside these cars, we have also owned a number of other sports cars over the years that have remained anonymous. I thought I would do a bit of a trip down memory lane on the rather eclectic group of…
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Ferrari F50 to the Jaguar XJR-15
Car Collecting Journey: Ferrari F50 to the Jaguar XJR-15 Recently I wrote an article on our experience owning a Ferrari F50 (The Ferrari F50). Looking back today, owning the F50 was a watershed experience in our car collecting journey. It both changed the direction, and has heavily influenced, all our car buying since. The F50 firmly cemented several critical attributes we look for in…
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Collecting Supercars
Recently I exchanged a few messages with a gentleman who was looking for a bit of advice on plans for his car collection. I quite enjoyed the exchange and hope I was able to provide at least a modicum of useful insights. I found the experience fascinating as it forced me to reflect back on our car collecting experiences over the last…
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Supercars We Have Sold
Supercar Ghosts With the McLaren Senna arriving shortly, I have been reflecting back on the different supercars I have owned over the years. They basically fall into three groups; missed and would like it back, enjoyed owning but it was time to move on, and thank god it’s gone. For the sake of brevity, I will only touch upon my…
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The SSO Awards: 2021
In this final article of 2021, what has been another unprecedented year, I’ve put together my annual SSO Awards list covering the automotive universe in general. In putting this year’s awards list together, I would like to first acknowledge that I have no real basis to be doing this (that’s better left up to the professional journalists and those that…
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Decade of McLaren Maintenance Costs 12C -> Senna
One of the most read articles I have posted over the past few years is on McLaren Maintenance Costs. As it’s been a couple of years now since that original article was posted, I thought it would be worthwhile posting an update. I have always tried to be quite religious with annual services which I’m sure has helped finance better…
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Race Cars for the Road: Senna & 911 GT3 RS
With the arrival of the Porsche 911 (997.2) GT3 RS on the east coast, I’ve found that the two sets of keys I been reaching for most frequently in the past couple of weekends have been those of the white red eared beast, and the ice blue land shark. While the 911 GT3 RS and the McLaren Senna share a…
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McLaren’s 1st Half 2021 Results: Road to Recovery
McLaren reported their 1st half 2021 results in mid-September. Included in these results were not only their performance for the first 6 months but also significant changes to both the balance sheet and corporate structure which were only completed in August. When reporting results, unlike both Aston and Ferrari which as public companies host presentations and a Q&A session for…
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Supercar Market Insights & Analysis – Sept 2021
I’ve refrained from doing a market update for the past several months as a lot of what was happening in the car market overall just didn’t make a lot of sense. I’m not sure it still does but post the Monterey Auctions, there is a bit more data to at least wade through. Back in January 2021, I summarized the…
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The SSO Awards: 2021
In this final article of 2021, what has been another unprecedented year, I’ve put together my annual SSO Awards list covering the automotive universe in general. In putting this year’s awards list together, I would like to first acknowledge that I have no real basis to be doing this (that’s better left up to the professional journalists and those that…
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Boutique Hypercar Manufacturers: Outlook 2021
Back in October 2019 I posted an article on the saturation of the Hypercar Market (Too Much of a Good Thing). In that article I mentioned that a number of micro manufacturers had jumped into the hypercar market including De Tomaso, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG), Brabham, and Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA). Since then, Delage and Czinger have also joined this rather…
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The Ultimate Collector’s Automobiles: The “Club” Cars
A few weeks ago, I was having a very enjoyable and enlightening conversation with a gentleman who has forgotten more about cars than I will ever know. One of the topics we discussed was what made one car more valuable than another and what was that magically attribute that all the ultimate high value collector’s cars have in common. While…
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Thoughts: Ferrari SUV, Aston Martin, SCG, GMA & More
I thought I would share a few thoughts and observations on a number of things that have recently caught my attention in the auto universe. None of these has enough depth for a full blog in their own right but thought they were still worthy of sharing. What the future will look like in six months is anyone’s guess but…
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Ferrari & Tesla’s 2020 Results
In the last two weeks, both Ferrari and Tesla have reported their 2020 full year results. This article is the first time I have analyzed Tesla’s results. I decided to do so alongside Ferrari’s as these are the two car companies that Wall Street values very differently from other car companies. Tesla’s current market capitalization of $820 billion is larger…
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Race Cars for the Road: Senna & 911 GT3 RS
With the arrival of the Porsche 911 (997.2) GT3 RS on the east coast, I’ve found that the two sets of keys I been reaching for most frequently in the past couple of weekends have been those of the white red eared beast, and the ice blue land shark. While the 911 GT3 RS and the McLaren Senna share a…
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Supercar Market Insights & Analysis – Sept 2021
I’ve refrained from doing a market update for the past several months as a lot of what was happening in the car market overall just didn’t make a lot of sense. I’m not sure it still does but post the Monterey Auctions, there is a bit more data to at least wade through. Back in January 2021, I summarized the…
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The Ones That Got Away: F1, Enzo, & a Carrera GT
When I was writing the article on the Ferrari 288GTO, F40, F50, Enzo, & LaFerrari recently, it got me thinking not just about the wonderful cars we have been fortunate enough to own over the years, but also about a few that got away. Of the many acquisitions we have made, there have probably been as many that didn’t happen…
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Supercar & Hypercar Market Update – January 2021
Back in October 2020, I summarized the situation among supercar manufacturers Supercar Market Update Q3 2020 as: So, how does this square with record levels of unemployment and economies that are officially in recession? When you stand back and look at both the actions governments have taken to date and the profile of the average supercar buyer, it actually makes…
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Planning Our 1st Epic Drive of 2021
I have hope that things will get better this year with the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccines and that by September or October a road trip will be possible. In great anticipation, I reached out to a group of friends with whom we have been doing road trips for over a decade now to gauge interest. It’s a great…
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The Bayside Restaurant: Home of New England’s Best Lobster Roll
This is actually the first standalone restaurant review we have ever done. All the prior one’s have been included in road trip reports. However when a restaurant consistently makes the best lobster roll in New England, it has earned the right to have its own review. The Bayside does, and it certainly has, for the two years since we first…
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To Cork or Not to Cork?
Editor’s Note: The following article was written by my brother, the Wine Collector (his wine cellar is probably worth more than my garage). The Wine Collector is a bit of a car enthusiast himself and he has owned a Ferrari 430 Spider for many years. Do screw cap wines and supercars go together? You don’t buy a Ferrari or a…
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Supercar Road Trip: Part 2
We recently moved from Texas back to near where I grew up in New England. As part of the move, Mrs. SSO and I decided to drive the Maserati Granturismo Cabrio and the McLaren 650S Spider respectively the 1,800 miles northeast. This would be the first time Mrs. SSO and I had done a road trip driving in tandem. As…
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Supercar Road Trip: Part 1
We recently moved from Texas back to near where I grew up in New England. As part of the move, Mrs. SSO and I decided to drive the Maserati Granturismo Cabrio and the McLaren 650S Spider respectively the 1,800 miles northeast. This would be the first time Mrs. SSO and I had done a road trip driving in tandem. As…
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Chicago
Chicago: A Great American City By Mrs. SSO While I normally write about Hotels, that was just a functional aspect of a recent trip to Chicago with Mr. SSO. Chicago is right up there with other great International Cities. It is so much more than being home to the Chicago Bears Football Team or the Chicago Cubs Baseball Team (although when you…
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SSO’s Supercar Plans for 2022
Sitting here on a cold sunny Saturday morning in January watching the colors of dawn poking through the forest, got me thinking about what 2022 will bring in terms of both already planned new arrivals in the garage, another addition I am seriously considering (it’s been submitted for Use Case testing), and a few other cars I would like to…
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The SSO Awards: 2021
In this final article of 2021, what has been another unprecedented year, I’ve put together my annual SSO Awards list covering the automotive universe in general. In putting this year’s awards list together, I would like to first acknowledge that I have no real basis to be doing this (that’s better left up to the professional journalists and those that…
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Anticipation Grows – The SCG 004S
It’s been about six months since I last posted an update on the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG) 004s’ development (1st Impressions, the SCG004S). I had just had the chance to visit the new SCG factory in Danbury, Connecticut and see a couple of the 004S development mules. I was very fortunate to have Jim Glickenhaus provide a personal tour and…
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First Impressions – The SCG 004S
Back in October 2020, I posted an update on the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG) 004s’ development (It Lives - SCG 004). At that point in time, the SCG 004C had just completed the 24 Hours Nürburgring race where it finished a highly respectable 14th overall out of 74 classified finishers in its first 24-hour race. It was also at Nürburgring…
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Boutique Hypercar Manufacturers: Outlook 2021
Back in October 2019 I posted an article on the saturation of the Hypercar Market (Too Much of a Good Thing). In that article I mentioned that a number of micro manufacturers had jumped into the hypercar market including De Tomaso, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus (SCG), Brabham, and Gordon Murray Automotive (GMA). Since then, Delage and Czinger have also joined this rather…
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