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This might just be the nicest 1980 Triumph TR7 in the universe. That has to count for something.

Almost $5K for a 80s Quattro with a quarter of a million miles on it? Why are we even asking this question?

Much more interesting to me than the five bikes in the article...

That...filled with nitrogen. I know someone that has stored a couple of cars in these, and filled them full of nitrogen; think Rain Man with a thing for cars.

The value of these are really hard to determine, as the prices are all over the place and there are very few Hemmings-style price guides. One touch-point is Hagerty Insurance, which shows an average value of $7,000.

€ 200.170,00 with most options, including several that probably won’t make it to the US anytime soon. Probably one of the few BMW autos that I would even think about...

I don’t have the ability to see the future, but the German government’s direct involvement give EU regulators an easier ability to change the face of VW than the US government had with GM. I share your doubt that they would be closed, but the US isn’t the only region that is pursuing remedies from VW - this is already…

Perhaps, yet they’re doing it legally. VW admitted to committing fraud - that’s the difference. What’s so difficult to understand about this?

We used to say the same thing about GM; they not longer exist in the same state that they did a decade ago and the scope of the impact to VW is still largely unknown.

You’re missing the point that they were sold and operated for a prolonged period of in which they were out of compliance. They were sold under fraudulently-obtained certifications. It is important to owners precisely how the affected fleet will be made compliant, if it can at all, but this is irrelevant to the…

Not the same impact? It affects more people, as it is an air-quality issue.

To each their own...

It’s not “slightly more”; thousands of well-researched articles have explained in detail the tests that show it’s 15X-22X the allowable limit. And the real issue here is the public that the rules were established to protect, not the car’s owners.

I know that automatic transmission hate is de rigueur here, but a good auto would compliment this “cruiser”. I’m basing this on use as a daily driver...assuming I could bring myself to trust something this poorly made.

A little, but a hell of lot less than I’ve seen elsewhere. And I’m serious about living the message...

Very well written Sean, but you’re preaching to the choir when you post this here. The real struggle is out on the street, where the cliquishness is thick enough to drown in and is rife throughout the hobby. This is, to an extent, simple human nature but should be resisted whenever possible.

Excellent article, Joe. What variant did you fly? Early TF30-equipped “A”s with equally early intake controllers were a lot more susceptible to ‘going sideways’ than later variants. Or so I understand, as I was long gone by then...

Was asking myself the same question ;)

I’m not an expert on F-Bodies, especially from this era, but this looks like a V-6 car that someone dropped a period-correct 5.7L TBI engine into. There’s none of the usual badging I would expect for a 5.7L and I thought that the rear bumper covers had cutouts for the exhaust. It wouldn’t be the hardest job to drop a…