Here’s a take that’s apparently hot, but shouldn’t be:

Please, please, please, please, let this happen. The gig economy is crushing people.

what does that have to do with anything?  Applaud the fact that some people set and live within a budget.  You gave a silly take. 

Some guy got mad at me in one and tried to chase me down and couldn’t catch up. I drive a Crosstrek too

I was about to get all upset when the Waymo car moved over into the bike lane, I thought it mistook that for the rightmost car lane. Then I saw that it was getting ready to turn right, and simply obeying the law.

Want to reduce “distracted driving”? There’s a surefire device that can be put in every car from the factory for that:

For the Miata person: why not keep the ‘99 and buy something else as a dd? Wrenching on a weekend is considerably less fun if you need that same car to get to work on Monday.

Counterpoint: If you cobble it together and it doesn’t really run or get you from A to B, did you accomplish your mission?

Simply, it’s a challenge.

It appeals to the engineer-y/problem solve-y side of my brain. Here’s a vehicle that—if we’re honest—was destined for the junkyard. It had a bad frame, a cracked engine, a horrible suspension, a bad ignition system...the list goes on.

Understanding these problems, laying out a plan to solve…

So you’re saying that punk service tech at the Nissan dealer years ago who forgot to put my oil drain plug back in correctly after a 1st oil change on my Pathfinder, right before I was about to leave on a 6 hour road trip, is a “real mechanic”? Does me being lucky enough to notice a trail of oil from the dealer all…

You’ve come to the wrong neighborhood

It’s in a parking lot...i dont blame u...i blame your school district

Small car for 2019 = midsize car 20 years ago and large family car in Europe. I’m married with an 11 and 13 year old. We just drove 1000 miles to Florida in comfort in my GTI. Flat roof means my large Yakima Skybox fits nicely on top. Gives up an inch or two of legroom to the Jetta but it has more headroom and…

The thing about modern performance cars is they’re all so damn fast it’s really hard to get anywhere near the limit on public roads. It’s also really unwise. I mean, I imagine running an M5 near the limit on this road would be just terrifying.  This thing occupies that sweet-spot that old fogies like me remember being…

Kind of like a kid who used black magic marker to give himself a beard.

Gli is around 25,555 the GTI is around 27,555. That’s more like 10%

The 2019 VW Chargemaro

This. VW’s have much more comfortable interiors. Better seats, better sound insulation, and much better manual transmission shifter feel. I got 197,000mi out of my last VW before trading it

Is there any reason to buy this over the GTI? 

In most cars I’ve owned you can’t really tell, but in most cars the oil is still in pretty good shape when you change it. In my Civic’s case, running full synthetic, the oil isn’t a issue after doubling what the car’s computer thinks is the life of the oil, though the filter has probably reached its limit.