I have driven a Spyker C8 and, amazingly, that exposed linkage works spectacularly well.

I get that people like them when shopping and comparing cars, because, let’s face it, they are very rarely comparing RWD vs. FWD and they almost never look for a stick, so, yeah, their tendencies are different from ours.

But I am legitimately curious as to what they think of them four years in when they are covered in…

I don’t know that we are in the minority. Manufacturers look at initial quality/satisfaction surveys, probably many of which say that people like these things, because they are shiny and new.

I would love to revisit how they feel about them in a year or two down the line. I suspect—but reliably can’t know—that their…

A $100K E30 M3 is a numbers-matching, original-paint, low-mileage, unmolested example. There are still plenty of cars available for significantly less money.

Also, while people are asking $100 large, does that mean they are getting it?

Okay, now we’re getting somewhere. Allegedly it has no rust, which is cancerously malignant to these Eighties cars.

Stock wheels and the stock-looking roof rack/cross bars are good signs. The spare motor, trans and ECU of indeterminate origin that he just paid a grand for also doesn’t hurt.

Don’t you agree that this…

Modifications:
Whiteline Suspension (Very Stiff) Springs, Shocks, Front and Rear Swaybars.
Bigger Cork Sport VJ14 Turbo
KVR Brakes
Grant Wheel
Boost Gauge and AFR Gauge
Ford Probe Intercooler
Tuned ECU
Blueprinted injectors
HKS Catback (Sounds Amazing)

Wouldn’t a GTX in bone-stock form be more unicorn than an actual unicorn these days?

I’ve sampled many and, without exception, it gets in the way of driving and makes for a hideous looking instrument panel and dash. I’ve been driving BMWs for about 25 years now (a few of my own cars and plenty that didn’t belong to me). If it were optional or if it retracted, then I wouldn’t mind as much. But I find…

Although the naming convention of the past decade or so annoys me because they had a good 40-year run or so of the names having actual meaning in terms of displacement (or something close to it, at the very least), that goddamned, tacked-on NAV/infotainment screen is a terrible, terrible, no good, very bad idea.

My…

But people didn’t buy enough of them 25 years ago. Why would they buy something like that now, particularly from a company that so few people trust here in the U.S.

The hand of the Mitsubishi keiretsu reaches far and wide. And, yeah, it’s complicated.

Also, nice Alphaville reference. I played that god damned song so many freaking times 30-something years ago I wore the tape out.

This is what 60,000 mile Toyota trucks look like in Vermont.

Photo snapped earlier this week (5/9/16) while one of our (non-truck) Toyotas was in for service. This is the norm around their dumpsters for the warranty/recall replacement of frames. They do several a week. I have seen stacks of pallets with as many as 26…

When accompanied by the Schutzstaffel runes, what the hell else is it supposed to mean?

Here in Vermont, it seems like they all rust. Even the aluminum and plastic rust here. Damn hard-working, Puritanical, Yankee salt.

I am not saying it’s not a wise thing to wear a helmet, but I just can’t stand the common argument that it costs taxpayers so much to care for those un-helmeted people who get in accidents and suffer head injuries.

So, how about these numbers as an argument for banning soda and, generally speaking, all of the…

People want there to be a mandatory helmet law, yet beyond wanting to impose their idea of safety on someone else, they use ridiculous arguments about the costs of taxpayer-funded health care.

The problem here is that the “we all end up paying for their aggressively bad decisions” argument could also be applied to…

I’ve had two clown shoes—so far—one with the plate on the bumper and one with the plate on the hatch. And I’ve driven a bunch of Zed sleds and Miatas. I agree with you. The NA is such an amazing car, whereas the Z3 is simply fun.

That said, the 1.9-liter Z3 is a bit of a bargain if you absolutely, positively have to…

He was so consistently fast.

I first watched F1 in the Seventies on “Wide World of Sports,” very clearly remembering Niki Lauda. I then got back into it when Lauda and Prost were fighting for the title in 1984. And then I was hooked for a good 10 years.

I think that everybody scraping to get into the top six made for a…

The under-rating of Prost, in my blatant opinion, is that he rarely gets mentioned in the same breath as Schumacher, Senna, Fangio, Clark and even Stewart.

If they had completed the Monaco GP in 1984, even if he had finished second to a surging Senna, would have garnered enough points to be champion over Lauda. And in…

Please note the Kinja handle.

That movie and the deification of Senna (which started before he died, in the Americas, at least) inspired me to comment on this site.