VW Golf and GTI fit that bill too.  Also come with CarPlay/AA.

Oh, thank!  I do have the photos in an album, but still, points taken, thanks!

I had the original negatives scanned to JPGs on the discs, so I should be able to make prints easily enough.  Was using an SLR so they are pretty good photos.

Oh man, I can’t say I know/recall the geography that well. I recall the drive from Nairobi to the Mara we descended a pretty long grade down into a valley, and then I recall some giant satellite dishes in the distance. Then a 5 hour drive over mostly nasty asphalt and dirt roads and thru a few small villages. My…

Unless he rolls that negative equity into an air cooled 911...?

If you read the excellent book “Fins” on GM’s designer (can’t recall his name, d’oh!) it lays out how GM basically invented this car sales tactic. Seriously, the book is really, really good.

In my world, being upside down on ANY 5 year old car is just...insane.  I guess at least it’s a Miata?  He’ll feel wayyyy more shitty when the Equinox is eating his lunch.

I’m the guy who always buys new cars so all the leeches here can later buy them used ;-), but I always follow your rule #1, for no real reason other than my own psychology, knowing the car is always “worth” more than the note. And then I usually pay them off a year early with a LS payment going into the final year. …

LOL! I am most shocked to hear an Equinox of any miles or vintage could command $25k. But the real tragedy is the cost to his Gladiator/Miata/90’s Civic car cred of slumming down to one.

Back in 2004 my friend was doing hyena research for his PhD in the Masai Mara (Kenya), and one of these was his research truck. I went over and we spent 2 weeks driving all over the place. Even darted a hyena from the backseat of one! As a researcher, he could go out at night with his NVGs and we saw some crazy shit, …

Very good points. US air travel is both the busiest and by far safest in the world. Air Traffic Control may be slow to change on some things, but in an industry where there is essentially zero tolerance for accidents, that is what you want, not move fast & break things.

It’s the gift that gives on so many fronts.

Yeah, that engine was among the last of the breed, never to be seen again. It would rev and rev and rev. And mine had 382,000 miles on it, I bought it new. So fun to drive and dead reliable. I have no such hopes my GTI over 20 years.

You just described the engine in my dearly-deer-impact-departed Celica GT-S. 1.8L, 180 HP at 7,800 rpm and a blast to drive above 4,500rpm, which gave you 3,300 rpm to redline to play with. And it weighed 2,500 lbs. In a straight line was easily as quick as the few BRZ’s I’ve driven. And my 210 HP 2016 GTI eats BRZs…

Just turbulence. I’m a GA pilot, and trust me, the general public is not ready for an air ride on a day with even a moderate amount of wind.

Although we all know that nobody is inspecting this car to this level at any point in the chain, and the end private buyer is going to be the one stuck with the issue. If there even is an issue, it’s some scant evidence at this point. My old Celica had metal shavings at 220,000 miles and went another 160,000 after…

I saw his response as very specifically worded as to not comment on the morality or legality of this in either direction, only to affirm an opinion the owner already had that the issue would likely not be caught. Depending on one’s view of business ethics, one could feel he should have at least thrown in some…

I bought one on my Celica back in 2000, my first new car ever, but it came in handy when the VVTi system went tits-up at 97,000 miles. This was a “known” issue and maybe Toyota would have fixed it if I complained. My paperwork shows I paid $2,200 for the Warranty, and the VVTi was about $1,500 and I also needed a new…

Like a GTI that is nearly 3 seconds slower to 60 mph I guess. 8.5 seconds, ouch. I’ve driven my friends Bolt and and it certainly feels similar to my GTI within a certain speed range, at least in a straight line, but this thing just sounds pedestrian by comparison.

Yeah, I was psyched when I saw this article, and then saw 2010!?!  Anyway, my brother and I caught this on TV at some point in the early 80's when we were about 10 and we STILL joke about it to this day, man we loved this movie.