Solid advice as usual Tom. I could’ve made a slightly financially smarter choice not paying cash for my car last year but in the end I’m happy with my decision; my garage-with-attached-living-space down payment fund is well on its way again and not having a car payment will leave more room in the monthly earnings when…

He’s not Mexican?

Well, considering I can currently stick my arm clear through the floor of my e30, that.

Hiding secret functions in the software? I really doubt VW would do such a thing.

That’s too bad. I’ve always liked the look of this generation of Lancer and only just got to experience an Evo a little while ago.

Minimal. There are brands that are doing very well in my book (Ford, Subaru, Mazda, BMW) and others that are doing things I don’t like so much (VW, Honda, Nissan, BMW) but I can find a car I like from most manufacturers right now.

“Oh nein, ze Americans are on to our fitzing ze EPA tests”

My favourite moment of the race.

Rather than include a ‘what we’d rather buy’ section, I’d suggest a buyers guide to cover an entire market segment with links to the relevant buyers guides of the cars in said segment.

Damn, thought the caption would show. Here:

From the sounds of it he was avoiding a vintage Mercedes and lost the back of the car. Something that I agree shouldn’t happen at reasonable speeds.

They’re a collaboration between Walker and Fifteen52 called the Outlaw.

I imagine the cars would end up looking a bit like this one that autocrosses around here:

This was at autocross a few weaks ago. I meant to talk to the owner but didn’t get around to it.

No worries and feel free to bug me any time, I always like to help.

No problem and yeah, you can absolutely put posts on there that you’ve already written. You can either do that by sharing the post there or by editing the post to publish it on Oppo directly (don’t forget to update the post time if you do the latter, otherwise it’ll go up at itss original time (in the past) and no-one…

Hey, I noticed you’ve made some interesting blog posts so I’ve made you an author on Oppositelock, Jalopnik’s reader forum. I think people there might enjoy some of the things you’ve written. Cheers.

A certain Patrick George of Texas is wanted for questioning in regard to this incident.

Obligatory Triumph Rocket III video.

I will add it to my wish list on Amazon. I already have a backlog of 5 or 6 books that I haven’t read or are in progress. I will try to make a dent in those before buying more.