2006-07 mazdaspeed 6.  270 hp. Awd. And lots of fun to drive

Mark IV GTI.

Third gen Acura TL

Easily found with less than 100k miles around $10k

I had both a Protégé and a Protégé5 and they're good cars. Noisy bastards though. 

Ha!  Did you notice you can hear the car alarms being set off in the background?  Hilarious

“Subtle “more sidewall” is a slippery slope that leads to mud tires. I see what you’re doing...”

I will build a bigger sidewall and make Honda pay for it. 

How I first read it.

Can’t agree with this enough (with one exception noted below). I have a stock 2015 m3 with adaptive suspension on 18" stock wheels. I upsized the tires to 265/40/18 and 285/40/18 (from 255 and 285, respectively) to gain both width and sidewall height. A good suspension can often perform better in real world…

I think you’re just repeating David Tracy’s “Safari All the Things?”

The engineers were so preoccupied with whether Taycan, they didn’t stop to think if Tayshould.

I mean, this would be a better crawler, but for long hauls no way. Half the fuel economy and nowhere near as comfortable.

Ducati is doing great actually.

Withering on the vine? Scrambler brand, new V-twin, V4 Panigale, thriving MotoGP operation?

Ducati nor VW are struggling.  The purchase never made sense and still doesn’t, it was just something to satisfy Piech’s ego.  

Ducati has been breaking sales records the last few years, greatly helped along by the scrambler. Ducati also has a unique business model, that i would say is most like ferrari in the auto world. Ducati makes a lot of money selling special editions of normal bikes. Like the 2017 end of the “story” 1299 panigale final…

Are they struggling?  It’s really the owners VAG that are having the issues and possibly looking to sell.  

? I was not aware that Ducati was struggling, their media presence is nothing but positive.