Area under the curve in the optimum revs between lower and higher gears. Low end torque is great for road cars but useless in race cars.

This is a 2004 VW R32. There were 5000 made for the US. Many of them have moved on to auto heaven. Many more have moved on to auto hell (suspension 'improvements', fuzzy headliners, questionable cosmetic mods). I am the original owner and it has 104k miles on it. I drive the shit out of it everyday and my…

I wonder if that is the famous Unicorn Onesie from the Twerk Video. Unfortunately that video was filmed in 1930 so its black and white.... we may never know.

Wookies and my 2004 R32.

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My bad, that must've been a later set of HPA mods. The version I read about just eliminated first entirely.

Good point, but who knows what happened in the 5 years the S4 was in someone else's hands? Also, I already outperform most cars on the road. The extra performance from the S4 is unusable day to day.

Keep in mind that car skipped first gear entirely. The first shift (the one a couple seconds into the run) is 2-3 which on the chipped R32 means ~63mph.

I daily drive my 2004 MkIV Reflex Silver R32. My wife loves the heated, leather Recaros but the ride is too much for her. This means that my car has 10 years but less than 100k miles. :)

I'm biased, but my 2004 VW R32 is a blast in the snow and always gets where it needs to. FWD bias with a heavy nose means traction is rarely an issue and when it is (or when I want dorifto) I goose the throttle and the back end goes live.

The motor! I don't care what it looks like, what wheels it has or how the switches feel. Nothing feels cheaper than hitting the gas at a light or in the merge lane and nothing happens.

Corvette Stingray, circa 1970ish. Because curves.

#3 - What kind of special person gets out of the steel cage with padded seats and airbags and jumps into the road before a crash? Just trying to win a Darwin award I guess.

I thought this was for people with taste, not for people who put gold badges on Camrys.

Go to www.vw.com and do a search for R32. You'll find a bunch listed for that price and higher. Same deal on ebay and craigslist. Makes me very happy because I have an unmolested 2004 R32 (90k miles) in the parking lot outside right now. :) Maybe in a year or so I can do a straight trade with the dealer for a…

Breathe.

I'm pretty sure the center lane is where he should've been. It's been a few decades since driver's ed, but the right lane is for entrance, exit; the center lane is for travel and the left lane is for passing.

I'm amazed by the restraint and/or ineffectiveness of the SUV driver. There's no need to carry a weapon when you've got hundreds of horsepower and thousands of pounds over your adversaries.

First thing I did when I bought the used Odyssey (because 3rd kid) was slap a Type R sticker on it. Added a ton of hp and you should feel it pull when that VTech kicks in!

That's not a railing, that's a steel-tube tower. The difference is that when the impacted corner of the tower broke loose, the far corners held. The tubular frame held its shape and the impacted corner acted like a lever and flipped the heaviest part of the VW upward.