You're not really taking into account the historical value and investment factor. The RS2 is one of the rarest and most desirable Audis ever made, so it's not the kind of thing most serious buyers would look at today and think "daily driver." Anyone that did would (hopefully) be well-aware of the running costs,…

For a car this rare that was never sold in the US, I'd go as high as $20k (assuming it hasn't been hooned half to death) if only for the investment.

That's because almost anything rolling on a VW Group B5 or B6 platform is a maintenance nightmare, especially from a cost perspective. I knew someone who traded in his 2003 A4 because he was sick of the maintenance costs and minor hassles. Vowing to never buy another Audi, he instead bought an '06 Passat, and big…

To someone used to owning cheap cars (my last car was a '99 Escort automatic which cost me about $3000 in maintenance over the four years I owned it) that are as ubiquitous as sand in the desert, $1000-2000 annually does seem like a lot for maintenance. But for an 18 year-old, ultra-rare high performance European car,…

He can't, because they don't exist. A base model '08 A8 with no options and 124,000 miles Blue Books for about $24,800 retail, or $21,700 in a private sale.

Very true. The clutch pedal on the Saab was a lot more forgiving too. I remember the Impreza (a '97 or '98 2.5 RS, I forget) pedal being really stiff and having a long travel. I only drove it a couple times, though.

The B-pillar does seem to have more of a forward rake than the Tahoe, which puts it more in line with a 2nd-gen S-10 Blazer/S-15 like the one pictured here. You could be right about the 2WD, but dubbed-out trucks are hardly a rarity along Texas' coastline. Given the absurd level of pixelation, larger wheels could…

Did you even read the Editor's Note at the end of the article? Or the article itself, for that matter? Not only does he admit there were other as-yet unstated factors in his decision, but he doesn't blame the organizers for anything beyond their decision to make drastic cuts in the number of practice runs. How else…

"The best car you can teach someone to drive a manual transmission with is not your own." How very true. My best friend didn't want me annihilating the clutch in his Impreza, so he taught me how to row gears in his mom's '97 Saab 900.

There's clearly no room in his world of "unconventional logic" for the concept that no one automaker does everything really well. Saying GM doesn't make any competitive products just because the '12 Malibu Eco lost a C&D comparo is like saying Honda doesn't make any competitive products just because the Ridgeline…

I found the myopic scope of the article ridiculous. I've read all of the Car and Driver reviews he cites, and he completely misses the fact that C&D approaches every comparo differently and includes a lot of subjective criteria (like "fun to drive") in their scoring. Also, the 2008 comparo he cites featured the…

True. But it's still a shitty answer, despite Torchinsky's fawning reply.

My only hope is that after this year, things will change for the better. I know there's only so much drivers can do to prepare before the race, so it really falls on the organizers to adjust their game plan and prepare for the increasing number of drivers who will need time to learn the road. I can kind of understand…

The only verifiable statistics I had access to were for fatalities, and I wasn't trying to predict the future or disregard the number of tragic accidents that occurred this year or in the past. I'm sorry if that's how it came across. I was just trying to make the point to SubEffect that looking back through the years,…

I agree, must've missed that part.

Wait, did Faust just answer "AE86 with a SR20 swap" to "What's the best cop car you could find on Craigslist for $1500?" If so, that leads me to two conclusions. One, he has no idea what "$1500" or "Craigslist" means. Seriously, a rare, highly-prized car with a (most likely) JDM engine swap for $1500? Is he serious?…

Wow, thanks! And congratulations on the COTD, it was very well-deserved. I'm still trying to figure out if this guy was trolling, or honestly thinks there are forms of motorsports that don't include an element of risk. I looked up some statistics on motorsports fatalities, and it's amazing how few fatalities there…

You're absolutely right. Unless, of course, you happen to be one of the thousands, if not millions of people in the world who enjoys the thrill and challenge of participating in motorsports.

For an event that's been run 90 times over the last 96 years and featuring drivers of all competition skill levels, in everything from high-tech factory-backed racers to home-built amateur rally cars, on a course that prior to this year wasn't even fully paved, I'd say a record of two driver deaths (one in 1921,…

Mercedes Benz seems to be the luxury marquee of choice for troubled, wicked, or just-plain-douchey celebrities. Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan (that's her SLK being towed away in the pic), Paris Hilton, Brittney Spears, Kim "Dotcom" Schmitz, Eddie "I Swear I Was Just Giving That Transvestite Hooker A Ride Home" Murphy,…