For that last paragraph... It’s odd how on an automotive blog where we’ve been foaming at the mouth for five years now for a new rotary vehicle that we defend environmental regulations. The Jalopnik group might actually be one of the most reasonable on the internet.

I love my GTI....I would have especially loved driving my GTI at 17, but that would probably not been the wisest decision.

honestly, I think in the future manual transmissions are going to be the more expensive option in general on cars.

I drove an autobox CX-5 and honestly, it was lovely.

David is a genius compared to the guy on the you tube channel B is for Build. or as i like to call it B is for Broken.

Oddly enough, even though it departs from my usual perspective on your greasy palette of rust-buckets, I don’t think all hope is lost, here.

Just because he is doing the autopsy in 2017 does not mean it died in 2017. It died a long time ago.

I used to think they were worth it. I restored a bunch of stuff back on the 80s and 90s, then took 20 years off from cars. I just finished a 3 year resto on a junkyard-find ‘66 Charger, only to realize that in the past 20 years, new cars have become so good that these old muscle-cars are prehistoric penalty boxes.…

That is not a vehicle anymore. It is simply used up. What you have is a template, a 3D instruction manual of roughly how it was built, and what will go wrong over the course of a century, but it is not meant to move under its own power.

You know, I once hated the PDK because I thought it was a cop-out for all the old guys who couldn’t drive manuals and needed an excuse to get an automatic (track times, better 0-60, etc.) 

As a raging manualist I have to admit this makes perfect sense to me. The GT3 RS is about getting a 911 to be as fast as possible, not as fun as possible. That’s why they built the 911R...that’s supposed to be the uber ‘experience’ 911. But as other posters have said, we might as well be debating the best material to…

In that case it doesn’t really sound like the RS is the model for you anyway. So the lack of manual is moot.

I would not put it past them. Gordon Murray once did something similar back in his F1 (not that F1) days:

I see from the responses that none of you have ever spent any real time in London.

As an American living in England, unless you’re planning on selling the car in the UK at the end of the trip, just buy over here. $30,000 over here equates to nearly £24,000 post-Brexit and there are all manners of Alfas, Land Rovers, Porsches, Maseratis, any French car, and so on and so forth that you’ll never have a…

When they ask you what car to buy, nobody EVER wants a real opinion from a knowledgeable enthusiast. The choice has already been made, maybe even long ago, and they ONLY want validation of that choice. But even when they don’t get validation of their choice, they still go ahead with what they were planning on doing. I…

I think this is where you lost me with the CJ project. Great content, but being able to see the line of no return is great as well.

RE: “But this truck’s real value proposition isn’t under the hood, it’s in the details.”

I recommend a trailer... give the sucker a chance to do some offroading at least... it’s not exactly a GT... why bother with the road trip with the Willys...

I recently did close to 2k miles in my Ford Flex (NYC-ATL and back), which is pretty much the perfect car for long-haul boring highway trips. Even in great comfort—those seats really are amazing; after 10 hours you’d be mentally strained but physically fine—it wasn’t something I’d relish doing again. The prospect of…