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Exotic imports and a flood-survivor Gallardo fill VINwiki's storybook

Matthew Ivanhoe discusses the importing business, while Rick Stengard reports on life with Ed Bolian's former Lamborghini.

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VINwiki Story of October 18, 2026Trari Newsroom

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Did the GREATEST ARBITRAGE in the car business just end???

Buying an exotic car abroad is one story; living with a previously flooded Lamborghini is quite another. VINwiki made room for both among five new uploads, with the importing discussion collecting the week's largest audience and the Gallardo ownership tale drawing the most daily views right now.

Matthew Ivanhoe of The Cultivated Collector supplies the business perspective in "Did the GREATEST ARBITRAGE in the car business just end???" The discussion of exotic-car imports has reached about 41,000 views, narrowly above the week's MR2-building story. Underneath, viewers are assembling a wish list: an Alpine A110 for one, an Alfa Romeo 147 GTA for another. The latter commenter puts the appeal in terms of having something different at an American car meet, rather than outright performance.

Rick Stengard brings the ownership side in "Here's what it's really like living with one of Ed's flooded Lambos!" His adventures with Bolian's former Gallardo are currently drawing roughly 10,000 views a day, comfortably the strongest momentum on the channel. A flood-history supercar gives VINwiki's vehicle-storytelling premise a particularly literal application.

Elsewhere, Spencer from @midlifecrisis101x combines a Cannonball adventure with a wedding story, while Cameron from @DCMotorWerks recounts a customer complaint he couldn't argue with.

Subscribers held steady over the week, and daily viewing is a little below VINwiki's usual pace. Nearby motoring channels had varied weeks: Vehicle Virgins is drawing busier-than-usual daily viewing, while Tj Hunt is quieter. For VINwiki, the freshest pull is that familiar question with an unusually complicated car attached: what's it actually like to own?

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What viewers say

For me it's an Alfa Romeo 147GTA. It has nothing to do with performance. It has to do with being unique in the US. Something different at a Euro-car car meet.
@chemmustang656See it on YouTube
Waiting for an Alpine A110.
@stuffhappens5681See it on YouTube
My next car just turned 25 and is on the way over!
@EdBolianSee it on YouTube

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80% plus percent of 348s were red....

Mine is blu sera with a red interior. I know of two others....one tb and one Spider. (mine is a ts).

It was originally sold in Germany, I imported it myself in 2017 from
the UK.
@bjwhitegtiSee it on YouTube

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