Well there’s over 200 of them, so it’s possible!

Rare doesn’t necessarily mean valuable. These were hard for dealers to sell new, and the situation isn’t that much better now that they’re 20 years old. Many people love it when you drive by - but very few want to own one.

If the Mk4 Golf is assembled like the Mk3, the rocker panel, C pillar, and roof are actually the base color of the body, and the rest of the panels are swapped.

This comment is criminally under-starred.

Because you can swap a 2ZZ into it, and then you’d have a budget Lotus Elise that wouldn’t get totaled when it gets a scratch on the bumper?

I disagree. The first gen is an extremely sorted design. I don’t think it looks chunky at all - if you can’t tell from the photos, it’s a tiny vehicle.

Thanks for the advice, duder13 and Beans.

VWs too.

If you could sum up the mid 2000s in one vehicle, this would be it.

That’s the second gen Z4 you've posted there, not the first gen.

That’s the one I want. That or a 986 Cayman S or 996.2 Targa.

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

At least we’re enjoying it while it lasts, right?

Except for, you know, the millions upon millions of people who don’t need a truck or SUV because they don’t haul things that can’t be hauled with smaller vehicles - or they do it so little that renting a truck when you need it is more cost effective.

Oil isn’t hazardous to ship.

I had to fix the GIF of the hatch opening angle since I’m a perfectionist:

That’s pretty much what I figure. They complement the rear floor dividers pretty well. That and there’s already four coat hanger hooks at the top of the rear seats and trunk. The manual is appropriately vague though:

I may have gone a bit overboard on this, but...

I remember reading at the time that it was specifically because they didn’t have enough money to develop the wagon version of the WRX and STI at the same time as the sedan, so they didn’t do it.

Lol at "More Proof the Reds Had No Men in Space"