Having had an axle on my Baha snap at 70, can confirm. When you have no power, every car around you is a potential hazard. I just lucked out that the Semi to my right got the idea that there was something wrong with my car, as a honked frantically and cut hard to the shoulder. I shudder to think if that had happened…

He, supposedly, did just that. Mulally would apparently go to dealerships and pretend to just be a normal salesman to get an idea of what their cars were being cross shopped against and where they needed to improve. The jury is still out on his involvement (or lack thereof) on this issue, but overall he seems to have…

I can’t speak with any strict authority, but that doesn’t seem terribly unreasonable. The company doing it has to take the original product (which is at least 3 pieces), replicate each it in a CAD program, cnc each mold out of a material that can take having thousands of cases pumped out of it, ensure that everything…

It’s not the worst, but it’s more work than it should be. My 09 GTI needed a new thermostat. On my Subarus that’s a 20 min job including letting the air come out of the system. On the GTI, your looking at removing the alternator and then taking most of the lower radiator tubing off, culminating in the dealer having…

I bought an 09 GTI for 7200 a few months ago. Compared to the Subarus and Hondas I was cross shopping, it was an absolute steal, especially for the interior quality it offers.

I had an ‘85 Subaru Brat with a chisel that was integral to it’s structure. We were working on it one day and a chisel just sort of fell out. We assumed it had just been trapped in the suspension for a few years (the bed had some large holes). Later, after we got it running, there was a terrible scraping sound as the…

The guy i bought my ‘75 XL350 from had a giant barn full of motorcycles (over 12), chain saws (over 40), and a single Chevy conversion van. He also rode around his farm on a little Honda 75cc dirt bike. It was interesting.