@twitchykun(lvl. 75 otaku Hoon): I'm cool with that as long as it incorporates the original PowerWagon! (sadly the best pic I found is of a model)

@Quattro-luvr: good call.

@An Army Of Juan: @pinkshinyalan: ... and was the answer to yesterday's QOTD. Nice. I like it. Very clever. And don't forget a 2nd gear synchro that is notoriously bad (mine is f-ing horrible, nothing like having to 1-3 skip-shift 6 months of the year because the synchro doesn't like to be anything less than hot to…

Wow. The pedestrian who walked by on the left just before it blew must have crapped himself.

@Jim Thwaite: I agree with your point and my choice of "Golden Oldies" is meant in the most ironic way possible and not dependent on age. I love the Wartburg and the work that has gone into it, but it, like the Angry Hamster Z600, is fundamentally different from crappy, relatively stock IOE contenders like the DS [jal…

Was this just a ploy to get us to look at something on Facebook?

@Alfisted: just don't play with it too rough or it'll pop...

@Alfisted: Here, just help me stretch this out before I blow it up...

@pinkshinyalan: I picked up a '92 last fall and had so much fun with it in the snow this year. The viscous limited slip made the car able to drive up snow covered hilly roads with me laughing all the way.

@Elhigh: @jbh11126: @BrtStlnd: @Pixel: I'm with Pixel and Elhigh on this one. If you think in terms of how awful the second gen was in comparison to the first, the xB has to be in the running. No, it's no legendary sportscar or anything like that but I think few cars that made it to a second generation fell quite…

@HammSammich believes in swordfish: I first read your comment as ..."I love Euro mini-skirts..." and I had to heartily approve. Then I realized my mistake and re-read your comment, although not as titillating as the first time, I still approve.

I love the car but it highlights a fundamental shift in IOE competition. When is a car really an IOE contender and when is it so far from original that it becomes something else?

@KingRoyale: No offense intended, there may be nicer parts of town but I didn't really see them the 2.5 years I was there. The part of town where I used to work was definitely crappy, down near the highway and the RR tracks fairly close to the Bridgeport border. Come to think of it there was a cute little center…

It wasn't my Dad's car that did it to me, or maybe it did, I'm a cheap bastard just like he is... hmmmm.... but it was my friend's dad's Triumph TR4-A and BMW 2002 that made me a motorhead for life.

@SlowMo: Another, smaller and closer option, is the shop that Bob Akin used to own before he died, now called HudsonHistorics. [www.hudsonhistorics.com] They should have some GTP and some other nifty stuff kicking around and they are located ~10 miles north of the Tappan Zee Bridge right on the water in the town of…

One weekend take a trip up to the crappy little city of Stratsford, CT. It is siamesed onto Bridgeport, isn't too far from NYC and I think it can be accessed via Metro North. There is a cool shop named, appropriately enough, Automotive Restorations. [www.automotiverestorations.com] They always had nifty stuff around,…

Why does the extra 225hp cost $80,000?

@ShibbyUTman: Very good call. Derivative, yet badass due to it's sheer size.

@CorporateFelon: That one was like an old movie where you don't see the crime, just the hint of it. We didn't actually see the family get run over but we see the handbag flung down on the street behind the van. Brilliant directing. Very effective without being too graphic.

Very well played.