I'm a cyclist, so I have muscular legs. Still, I drive lots of cars from many different segments and the Cayenne/Touareg are the only ones that put my nuts in a vice.

When a badge engineered diesel CUV scores a 74, the index is irrelevant. I haven't driven this generation Cayenne, but the previous one was one of my least favorite cars to drive in the world. The low dash, WIDE and high center console, and thick doors conspired to force my thighs to clamp shut on my nuts. Apparently…

My thoughts exactly. I've seen enough change anyway.

I lived there almost 5 years. This guy was a truck driver. He racked up $25K in tolls carrying all the things into the city that people need to be able to buy within walking distance of their front doors so they don't need to drive cars to stores outside of the exclusion zone. In most cases I assume those tolls are…

Looking at Wikipedia, I see that the phase 2 R9 got the quads in 1985. I moved back to the US in July of 1984, so I guess that is why I missed them. Even then the cars had awful reputations. I'm surprised they stayed in production as long as they did. I have an Austria car magazine from 1982 or 1983 where they wrote…

That's a Renault 11. Another candidate would be the Renault 9 that the 11 was based on, although the Renault 9 only had quad headlights in US Alliance trim, IIRC.

The 1,710 lb curb weight figure is for a 1.2 liter, FWD coupe. This 4WD GL wagon had a curb weight of 2,170 lbs. Still light, but no longer mysteriously so.

New York's bridges were paid for long ago. The money collected now pays for toll collectors who make rural doctors look like paupers and other government employees whose existences look just like an organized crime racket when you take off your blinkers.

My bad. I just reread your earlier comment, and it says basically the opposite of what I thought it did. Sorry.

I think you have your hoods reversed. The earlier ones with the small bumpers are long hoods. The hoods were shortened in 1974 to make room for the 5 mph impact bumpers, making the 912E of 1976 a short hood.

Amato's. 3848 Sorrento Valley BLVD is their business address, but you can find the holding yard at the intersection of Begonia Street and Sorrento Valley Road on google street view.

My mother had a Porsche and we received Christophorus Magazines for years, so I was aware that Porsche traditionally has had such a service. I just thought perhaps they dropped it when they switched from being an engineering company and started building neo-classics with the 996, following that up with the Cayenne and…

I'm sure Porsche will be happy to fix it, provided anyone is still there from when they made sports cars instead of marketing gimmicks. I used to work in Sorrento Valley. My commute involved passing a holding yard where all of San Diego's wrecked Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Porsches, and other expensive cars from the…

Does anyone else have a problem with the cost of travel within a metropolitan area being set so high by bureaucrats? NY must really care about the common man, when they're hell bent on making commuting or commerce a privilege reserved for the rich.

I'm glad we're not paying it. We've been eating the unpaid fines of the UN cretins for decades. It isn't even just the lost revenue, but the UN scum basically tie up parking in entire Manhattan neighborhoods without paying or abiding by time limits, block street sweeping, and spend their time planning less autonomy…

I like almost everything about my company 2012 A6 except its confused transmission, its electronic glitches, and its gimmicky and tacky LED lighting. There is nothing redeeming about them. If they're so efficient, why do I need so many of them? How long until one burns out and the car looks like a whore with a missing…

So basically he had a 275 GTB, a Daytona, an F40, and a bunch of used cars. Maybe if he hadn't purchased cars like a trophy wife buys handbags, he'd still own his stuff.

I'm curious how well it runs with a CVCC head and a Weber carburetor. It seems to me that the stock 3 barrel carburetor was set up to deliver a rich mixture to the early opening small intake valve and then a lean mixture to the full sized intake valve, leading to the more efficient and cleaner combustion that allowed…

LED lights are right out of "Mr. Pine's Purple House." I drive a car with them and am ashamed when I do. I suspect they won't hurt this car with its intended market though. Maybe this will encourage premium automakers to stop the stupid fad. It's run its course when you see it on Sentras. Maybe they'll go the same way…

All this tells me is that BMW still employs people in design who would do less harm were they to work in a different field, preferably an obscure one that impacts absolutely nothing.