“proceeds" usually means profit. He through it up with no reserve, so for all he knew, he wouldn't have even been making his money back on the car.

Actually Matt spent a shitload of money on this build, he was pretty candid about what he got for free on his podcast, and also on how much he spent on it — which was a lot.

Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal. A guy I work with has 90k miles on his Focus ST and hasn’t had any real issues.

Is it just me, or is this just more justification for the ~$425k price tag? If people are repeatedly buying them for over double, then I think that proves its worth pretty damn well.

I’d take that with a grain of salt. This is a guy who exalts early 90's Mopar as the pinnacle of automotive excellence.

Hey, if they’re helping keeping manuals alive, then they have my blessing.

Yep, it’s a stick, and as for properly sorted, well... not exactly. Battling some ABS issues after installing the lift kit.

I feel your pain, senior Graverobber. Just add a couple turbos, air suspension, and some extra masochism and you’ve got my project:

Well get on it, Russ! We're counting on you for science

I thought the title was fine. We can disagree, it’s cool.

You’re entitled to your opinion, but it seems pretty damn factual to me.

The point is that we knew it was going to be a collaboration between Toyota and BMW, we didn’t know it was going to be a BMW with some Toyota body panels on it. I enjoyed the detail of the article.

I loved the article, man! Insanely well researched!

Jesus, the phrase “why is this even news” is really climbing my list of pet peeves. It was insanely well researched and put together and had some bits of info that I thought were really interesting, so I definitely appreciated it.

Maybe not every article is meant for you?

Only a 20 minute podcast? What the hell, I was gearing up for at least a full our of Torch geekery.

I’d be interested to know if it was

Many parts of this post were appreciated. Well done.

Unfortunately people will not see or ignore the fact that 50 people have already pointed out the same thing and you’ll get the same shit over and over again...

That being said, just so you know there’s this thing called a conversion rate and...

Why the repo guy? He just drives the truck, man.

Not every story has to be a groundbreaking revelation or a shocking tale with a crazy twist. I thought it was an interesting story and was glad to read it. /shrug