I hated the license tests - even though I was able to at least pass them at a bronze level, I always felt that they weren’t very useful for actually learning about car handling or even track layouts. I got way better at the game through actual racing and lapping. Eventually I ended up GameSharking my way out of them.…

I actually want to learn to properly use a lathe, etc., just so I can build working scale model engines. 

FWIW, you are probably still annoying people at 3K rpm, if you’re running a fart can or similar loud exhaust. Guy used to live next door to me, with a Honda with a loud exhaust, and it’d make my windows buzz and wake me up every morning at 6 am when he started up and drove off - and he wasn’t gunning it in the…

The problem with being the only vehicle that combines a bunch of unrelated traits (can tow 2500 lbs, quick in a straight line, convertible, large trunk) is that nobody was shopping for all of that in one vehicle in the first place. Nobody. Trying to claim the SSR is a really a great car because it’s faster than a BMW…

I would love a smallish, V8, manual pickup truck - I’d even forego a convertible, and I am most definitely A Convertible Guy. But this thing? Hard pass. The styling alone kills it for me - the retro craze wasn’t my thing to begin with, but the SSR is just really badly styled. Nothing quite gels and it looks dated…

Doesn’t surprise me at all. This car was never targeted as something to use, but something to drive to car shows and to park in front of that chic restaurant on Sunday afternoons when you go out for lunch with the wife and maybe to the office on one of those summer days when you were feeling particularly “sporty”…

Really? I see a lot of stock S2Ks around here, or at least stock appearing, not track modified or tuneruined. 

I’ve never really ruined a car through modifying it - I tend towards conservative mods if any on daily drivers, because as sexy as lowered suspension and gumballs look, and as awesome as a big exhaust sounds, the compromises are to me not worth it, every single day. Shoot, my current Miata is completely stock, and…

I’m really only annoyed with what seems like a lot of random crap strewn around the interior of the truck. Everything else seems a-ok to me! 

FWIW, I’ve almost exclusively driven convertibles for almost thirty years, and have left them sitting open a lot, and have never had this happen. If anything, I find more insects in the car in the winter, when the everything’s buttoned up all the time, because they fly in the door when it’s open and can’t get back…

A coworker of mine would keep some of it at work, but he used it more as a supplement rather than a replacement. He is vegan, and admitted that sometimes he couldn’t get enough nutrients in whatever he’d brought for lunch that day so he’d break out the Soylent. He’s a marvelous cook, incidentally, and he always had…

I’ll see them with the front doors off, but never all four. 

Star for the reference. Now if you’ll excuse me, we’ve just pulled up to the house in my Porsche, and we need to get out.

I feel that if I were to catch someone throwing cheese slices on my car, and I caught them, I’d just reciprocate and throw cheese at them.

Shoot, I would love to be in an office environment - that’s pretty easy to manage because even in a large office it becomes pretty obvious who the sick people are (or the ones who will come in and not wash their hands) and you can stay the hell away from them as much as possible.

I work in retail - its a special kind…

And I’ve pretty much decided that I will continue to mask up on airplanes forever - I have had far fewer than normal of my chronic sinus infections since this all started.

I’m with you on this. The TR6 and 914 are actually pretty easy to get in and out of, at least in the classic small sports car realm, and I feel the GR is probably going to be a similar difficulty level if it’s anything like a BRZ. After all there’s a reason the C5 Corvette is so popular with this age bracket - it’s…

FWIW, Webasto has been in business for over a hundred years, and started making automotive tops in the 30's. In the classic car world, those nifty cloth sunroofs are known as “Webasto roofs”.

It might differ state by state but it’s quite common here in Illinois to get a new car registered at the dealership when you buy it, unless you are transferring your plates to the new car (in which case they’ll also handle sending out that paperwork). Shit a lot of places will actually have the plates ready to go on…

Most people interested in something like this are hauling bicycles, lawn furniture, or a few bags of mulch and the like, not sheets of plywood or two tons of bricks. After all delivery isn’t expensive and it costs like twenty bucks to rent the pickup truck from Menards if you really want to haul stuff home yourself.