Euro sock monkey FTW!

If I had the ability to craft a W32 engine (and the ungodly amount of time he spent doing it), I would not waste my time with a midget engine, but make something full size and rip-roaring and with huge horsepower.

The best 911 going today? I vote for the Cayman GT4.

She has worked at the dealer for a long time, perhaps 10 years.

As for the variations in engines, viscosities, etc., if your job involves oil changes all day every day (part of scheduled maintenance paid for for the first 2/25 by Toyota, it really shouldn't be that hard to know how much a damn oil change costs or how…

It shouldn't come as any surprise that this part of the car-buying process is what really turns people off. I almost got screwed by an illegal sale (in New York State it is illegal to offer a lower interest rate for a customer that is tied to either an extended warranty or service plan; Spitzer as AG went nuts on NY…

We ended up buying/leasing two new Toyotas this past year and the F&I said the same thing to me. I was pleasantly surprised. No hard sell at all.

However, when it came time for the first service (on them, essentially a tire rotation only), I asked for an oil change. The service writer literally didn't know how much…

I am a Mopar fanboy (first car a 1969 Dodge Dart GT, grew up around all sorts other A and B-body Mopars), but I always laugh when people say that the Barracuda created the pony car craze. And, yet, somehow, we don't call them "fish" cars, do we?

Well, how old is the patent now? That tech has been around for a while now, but I am not sure when GM patented it.

Harroun FTW...literally!

If you are going to pick on Vermont Subaru owners (literally about half the state), at least call it by its official name: The Official Car of the People's Republic of Vermont.

Hah! That was the solution for my E30 M3. Sucker leaked like a sieve.

I then upgraded from cardboard to a big stainless steel flat pan that collected the oil much better and kept the garage floor cleaner.

I seem to remember buying a couple of huge bags of Oil-Dri from Sam's Club during that era as well.

This is EXACTLY why M cars come with electronic nannies now.

Bingo! I lived in St. Louis during this debacle.

If I remember correctly, final assembly was supposed to take place in China, with the locals building the tail section and the other parts, most notably the wing, being shipped to China completed and ready for assembly.

The machine tools were apparently much more useful…

Curious here...What issues did the 335i have?

Personally, I would be reluctant to buy a used German car out of warranty as a general rule, but the 335i is certainly a hoot to drive...when it works.

Sold my V70R recently—red with Atacama leather and a six-speed—mainly because it was killing me in repairs. All kinds of different shit going wrong and it had reasonably low miles when I bought it.

Touché, I suppose, but the 25-year-rule exists to appease collectors and car people, not the average driver who is just looking for deal. Who else but a deranged car fan would want to bother with an old Mini? As I wrote somewhere above, the number is arbitrary, even if 25 years seems insane.

Just because other people don't love it, doesn't mean your old man shouldn't. Basically, GM pulled out all the stops in 1958 and put as much bumper, chrome and flash as they could fit on a car and then doubled it. It wasn't just the full-size Chevy—it was virtually everything they made that year.

The 1958 Impala is why Earl's crew staged the coup Orlove was talking about. It's about the least loved Chevrolet ever.

Do what the automakers do on the federal level and the dealers do on the state level: pay them off.

And while that may sound cynical, it also appears to be the only way to make things happen in government. There are certainly exceptions, but that would rather seem the rule these days.

I suppose, but what would your insurance company think? Imagine if they thought they were insuring a 1988 Mini and after an accident they wonder why there is a $4,000 charge to replace a pair of air bags. What would they think?

Okay, I am picking nits here, but I was be very, very hard pressed to choose a VIN-swapped…