I agree. That was my two cents worth as well.

Maybe it's just in Texas where municipal coffers overfloweth with Shale Oil money, but you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Chevy Tahoe cruiser. Everyone from little town local-yokels, to County Sheriffs and even the Texas DPS are driving those GD things. Since every soccermom and her dog drives one too it…

Yup. For a while there was a whole cottage industry in producing those things. Cheap ass me though? I bought one and used it on four cars for 10 years. I had friends who jammed in the resistor, wrapped it and hoped for the best. lol Me? I preferred the resistor tucked inside a couple GM weatherpak connectors to…

Paying the Gas Guzzler tax. I've got two GT500's that I paid it on, so yeah, defeating the CAGS skip shift is the best money I ever spent. lol

I'll bet it isn't difficult to defeat, on purpose. GM knows they have to use this for CAFE and they also know their customers don't want it. I had it from '96 (Z/28 SS) , 2000 Camaro SS, 2001 C5 Corvette and a 2005 C6 Corvette. I defeated it in all of them for over 10 years. The funny part? I used the same part I…

You, good sir, are correct! *thumbsup*

Not only driving the "wrong way" around the track... suddenly sitting on the "wrong" side of the car!

Certainly would appear to be.

Don't be a doucherocket and you won't end up looking like an asshat in a $100k car.

Sorry, Punk'd ruined JT for me. No matter how long it's been, or what he's done since then, anytime I see him all I can think of is him sitting on the curb, crying like a little girl and calling his mom to come rescue him because they were taking away all his sh*t. lol

Oh I know he wasn't/isn't/has-no-intention-of strapping a turbo, and by default, sinking a metric ass-ton of money into the beetle, but that doesn't mean I won't attempt to Jedi mind trick him *cough*jason-get-a-turbo*cough* into going ahead and doing it any way. lol

PS - Now, for a big-honkin' turbo.....

Jason, I've followed the entire saga of the Beetle's theft and resurection up until now and I just have to say, it's damned gratifying to see it on the road. Not only from the perspective of a "car guy" hearing that air-cooled flat 4 bang away, but also just from a "Good Guys, F*ck Yeah!" perspective. That yellow…

As I really have no interest in her, her "reality shows" or her porn vid, I have to fall back on my philosophy of life that has served me well for 40-some-odd years.

Whoa there big boy, you're mistaking me for someone with MUCH thinner skin. lol I knew you didn't mean ME in particular. Just general comments. No offense taken or intended.

Remember a couple weeks back when I said, "I like that basard Kurtis"? Well, this just reinforces my point. I fuckin' love that bastard. Kurtis. You know, no homo. Just bros.

It's a very real possibility that with all that fitness, you could become so jacked that your muscle density increases to the point you have your own superdense gravitational field and you implode into a singularity of awesomeness either in your garage, or doing tire flips.

You might have a point, I wouldn't know. I've been training in several martial arts (TaeKwonDo and Jiu Jitsu) for the past 12 years and I run 7 miles a day, 5 days a week. So, I just chose another way to stay fit, but my "fatass" days are long behind me.

Kill it with fire. Let's face it, it's probably going to self-combust sooner than later anyway, and that thing is so damn ugly I'd consider it a mercy killing. Sort of, assisted suicide, combining fire with a modern Lambo.

How could I pass THAT up? Aw crap, I live in Texas and my monthly obligations have ROCKETED past "entry level". I'll just have to stick with being berated by my wife. It's not so bad really, I'm used to it after 22 years and she's become quite adept at it. Though, in all fairness, I give her pleeeeenty of material…