But this whole thing about hanging entire cars on walls... well, it’s growing on me, a little.

This bothers me for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on.

I’m an accomplice!

A manual GTI SW would be so fun and cool and bring me drooling to the car dealer like 3 times a month just to gawk. I’d probably buy new too if it had a lighting package fancy headlight thing.

Love VW’s leatherette material - more durable than leather, ages better than leather and no less comfortable. Had tan leatherette on my Sportwagen and loved all 100,000 miles of it.

Will we ever see a GTI or R version of this body style? I’d love to have something slightly bigger than a standard Golf but without losing the fun factor.

Can you ask VW why they wont make a GTI(forget R) version of this for the US?

No... You can have leatherette and a manual. 

How gnarly of a 4wd trail can it pull off before getting stuck?

Siri, show me the exact opposite of a hustle triple. 

C’mon man it’s a GTI not an STI

There aren’t any pedestrians on the Bay Bridge, which confused the Mustangs.  They wandered ‘round and ‘round searching fruitlessly for a crowd.

I was hoping for off the side of the bridge.

(thanks U.S. bumper-height standards that somehow don’t apply to full-size trucks!)

“Yo dawg, we heard you like hood scoops, so we scooped your scoop.”

I always believed that “All Season Tires” was a made up term by people living in places that see snow for 1 day a year, but otherwise are still seeing pavement year round.

A 5-speed Euro wagon that looks to be in decent shape and “according to the owner” drives great and needs nothing, in the mid $2k range? The only thing that would make this a more perfect winter beater would be AWD, but FWD can get the job done adequately too.

While I think $2,750 is a tad more than I’d pay for this (I’m guessing you could talk him down to $2,500, and anything less than that you are encroaching on “great price” territory), I’ll wait to see what you are able to dig up for $1,000.

Maybe I’m nuts, but after wrenching on Saabs for the better part of 40 years, I can say these GM underpinned 9-5s are pretty easy to work on and parts aren’t hard to get. Unlike earlier Saabs where engineering solutions were truly “inspired by jets” and thus weird as hell, these are pretty much Opel Vectras with…