The salesman was thinking the opposite of course. As it turned out (making you right and him wrong), when I traded the car it was very quickly scooped up my another dude who wanted to track it. The problem with sunroofs on track cars is they lower the internal headroom which creates issues for taller people wearing a helmet.
Now I drive a 2018 Outback. It came with a very large panoramic sunroof. I have 25k miles on it and I have yet to ever drive it with the roof open. What a waste of money.
My wife and I are making home improvements. She keeps thinking how it will help resale. I keep thinking how it will increase my own enjoyment of the home.
There is a fine line between full restoration and sympathetic restoration I agree but I feel with hifi the main event is the sound. If you want to own this it should look good. Can you imagine how many times a prototype has been taken apart and rebuilt? To what end? Make it like it was when it went into R&D I say.
I once had an ex-demonstrator BMW with the factory-fitted sunroof option. Twice I had to let the dealer have it back to try to quieten the wind noise from the sun roof, which both times was dealt with as a warranty issue, but it was never fully satisfactory. I resolved never to buy another BMW with a sunroof.
From my personal archive, a photo I took on one of my many factory visits (previously posted elsewhere on the forum), an unpainted NAP500 prototype in one of the test rooms.
Brilliant how Naim buyers generally produce a microscope to seek out imperfections in s/h units - yet here it’s “nah, leave it battled scarred and authentic”
