Well comrade, I anticipated this from someone after I had posted. I wasn't referring in any way to the layout of the car, just that both companies made large, bland couches-on-wheels and sold them in huge quantities to fleets, and they can now be picked up for not a lot of money.

You know, I haven't, I didn't realize it was so easy to remove. Sir, I like the way you think.

It's actually to scale to the car.

He's nuts to go through with this.

Yeah, I've also noticed the power steering pump on standard cars is prone to heat soak under hard driving

If you want real quick, ZZ Performance has a shop car that I believe runs high 8s.

Is 500 horsepower at the front wheels good for anything other than drag racing? No, but it does go to show that the motor is tough as nails, and bumped up to around 300whp, these cars are legitimately quick. Also, when I say "responds well" I don't mean that it just sucks a little less, I mean at my first autocross…

This is why I used the word only.

It is GMs Panther. Fleet Sales FTW

9.) 2000 Chevy Monte Carlo SS

He can't make me crazy if he's in the trunk. Besides, somebody needs to bleed my power steering system.

I feel like VW should give you the car, and make it an advertising campaign about customer loyalty replete with side-by-side shots of the two cars. That, or at least give you a discount. Your wife needs something to drive, right?

I'm impressed that anyone is DD'ing an Avanti II nowadays. I'm sort of in the same boat as you, I don't believe my wife will continue to hold the wife position for much longer, but in the mean time, I shall enjoy having this screaming Italian in the garage, er, parking lot.

My wife would buy a 4c, she's a sucker for Italian cars (we're getting her a 500 Abarth next weekend) and I know at least one other person who would look at one, if he could afford one. I also think they should sell them at Fiat dealerships, considering the at least one in my town has passionate salespeople, and they…

If you're willing to have the car tuned, Road Race Motorsports has a tune to bring the 1.4T up to 200 horsepower. My wife is getting a 500 Abarth, and I'm going to try and convince her to get it.

I could take the crazy one too, and we'd call it even.

That paint....quick, someone pass me the eye bleach!

I always laugh when I see how preppy most lacrosse teams are, and compare it to my experience with lacrosse. I only played for one year, my senior year of high school, and almost all of us were just broke high school kids from small town West Virginia. We had everybody from stoners to nerds like me to football…

Um, I'll take the girl, I've got a weird rattle she can diagnose while she's at it.