Same here, I live out in the country with a lot of rich people about, so you’d think there would be a market for at least one foreign car repair shop. Nope, they all drive new full-size pickups and SUVs, with the occasional Corvette for weekends.

You do realize I was being sarcastic?

Who else thinks that this really is just the inevitable consequence of emissions regulations in the USA being notoriously biased against diesel? If it wasn’t VW another company surely would have done this (and probably already has).

CC TDI, here I come baby! Or no, better to get a gas model whose value will be depressed out of fear that the whole company will go out of business? Maybe a TT would make me feel better about not buying one of the last Saabs—AWD hotrod Buick though it may’ve been—when I could

Well said. Who remembers the melamine-in-dog food scandal? Something equally horrible is inevitable when garbage Chinese cars start hitting the US market in large numbers. Death, mayhem, outrage, and maybe (hopefully!) even a national conversation on how much we depend on the Chinese economy of throwaway shit.

You just lost all credibility as a car enthusiast by invoking the Audi “unintended acceleration” scandal and CARb in the same post. The former was a fraud, a show trial. Every single scientific investigation — EVERY SINGLE ONE— showed the driver to be at fault. As for CARB, they are a bunch of political appointees…

Ah, so that’s why my ‘87 Mercedes 300D had an oxidation cat? (No, I’m not talking aboutbout the trap oxidizer removed under recall. There was a real cat in the middle of the system under the cat.)

Yeah. It’s monospace, but some of the glyphs don’t seem to be in quite the right spot within the character cell. Like they need to be shifted a point or two left or right.

I agree with everything you said here, but I don’t think anything is going to change the fact that people who aren’t particularly interested in computers outside of watching cat videos and checking their Facebook status are now seeing software development as a safe, lucrative career—go to a good school and get decent…

Somebody said that Ruby is the ideal language to get your startup to the point where you realize that you’ve outgrown Ruby.

No, but someone clever who saw that car did.

What’s more powerful than a prancing horse? The box you keep it in!

I don’t know how to say this politely, but... THAT ENGINE IS IN THE WRONG END OF THE CAR

Dalton might just have the best rebooted bond ever, if faithfulness to the novels and stories is your bar.

928 comparo is very apt. And just like the 928 they are underappreciated, undervalued, and looked down on by marque snobs.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, and (oops, let me count the questions in your second paragraph) yes.

Also, heavy steering builds character.

Even if you have the tools, space, and know-how, you still might get in over your head, like this poor schmuck who threw away $1000 on a basket-case R129.

Have you actually driven an ‘80s Subie wagon (from back when they didn’t even have model names, just trimlines—
generic wagon DL, GL, etc.)? It would be great in a straight line or offroad. But the suspensions on those things have no redeeming quality on the road in curves. Terrible driving experience.

Why is it that the only thing American car companies can get right is automatic transmissions, but they REALLY get them right? Think of the embarrassing banging and jerking Mercedes slushboxes from the '70s, for instance, compared to a Chrysler 700R4. There's a reason why so many low-volume manufacturers (Rolls is a…