I kid you not I did actually watch one of these things start to catch fire at the track after it popped an oil cooler line, but they got the fire out or it went out on its own.

That’s interesting, I’ve spent a lot of time in the back of an S60 of the same generation and always found it quite comfortable.

I’d say a manual, turbo, Volvo wagon. But...reliability. I got mine (V50, T5 manual) under his budget! Though within the first 2 days of ownership it was already well over. The first 6 months....I don’t want to say double but... Love the car though. That could be the Stockholm Syndrome though. It is Swedish.…

I was thinking this was a Miata block and indeed it is! It’s ALWAYS a Miata block!

I’ve seen plenty of supercharged BRZs at the track and the owners don’t seem to be having any issues.

There’s a CARB-legal rotrex supercharger kit for the FRS/BRZ/86 that brings them up to something like 300HP, works fine on the track or road, and is like $5000, which is at least how much more the OEM would need to price the car at if it made that much power. I don’t really see a huge issue here.

Seems more like a hatchback. On a wagon the D-pillar shouldn’t overlap the rear wheel.

Doesn’t follow my personal wagon rules which are yours, plus it needs a D pillar, and that the D-pillar must not (or at least a majority of it must not) overlap the wheel. It does on this car. Not a wagon. On a wagon the rear of the car and D-pillar must appear to be cantilevered past the rear wheel, not supported by…

I think the answer is clearly an NA Miata.

Hahaha I’d like to watch that guy do sparkplugs on a transverse V8...

Haha I like this one.

Personally I like talking car shit with the guy at the counter, usually because I’ll moan about whatever is wrong this week and he’ll nod and be like: yeah dude.

I’ve driven that one as well as a rental, it was much better. If I had to choose between them I’d take that in a heartbeat despite the fact that the one I drove was a bit older, with more miles, and was a lower-end one with the smaller screen and fewer options. That said I’d probably take just about anything else on…

I’ve driven it, and after a week I’d probably rather drive myself and my kids off a cliff than take them to school. It’s a hateful machine. The powertrain is awful. Once you’re up to speed on the highway it’s fine, but getting there or driving it around town is an excruciating experience as it wheezes along and thuds…

A non-small percentage of these are likely fleet sales. It’s one of the cheapest BIG SUVs out there.

I mean, that ties into what he was saying IF you think of the gears in relation to yourself. My point was I don’t think of them that way, I always think of them as left-to-right.

Reverse isn’t always there though, or sometimes requires you to push, etc. On every stick I’ve owned reverse is on the far right.

The 4-cylinder Journey with the 4-speed auto is probably the worst car I’ve ever driven. Had one as a rental and was driving my parents and brother around Palm Springs in it. They have these huge roads there with high speed limits and some traffic lights. We were sitting at the light and it turned green and I decided…

“Just be prepared for a couple luggy starts in third gear before your brain adapts.”

The V12 Vanquish. In retrospect it’s got nothing on the DB9. But Bond had one, and the NAME.