HEY GUYS LET'S ARGUE ABOUT MANUAL TRANSMISSIONS VS. AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS AGAIN, IT'S NOT OLD YET.

You should have subtitled this post "Hey Subaru fanbois that think that god-awful burbley boxer UELH shit sounds good, come have a party in the comments."

I'm getting a compressed lesson on this effect, as I've gone from small, nimble, "don't-go-fast-but-it's-fun-to-make-it-feel-like-it-goes-fast" cars to a 6spd C6 Vette as of last weekend. Going from 0-50mph tooling around on non-highway city streets is still fun though. Life is a little different however when…

And we will buy their cars once they are done with them.

This is a tough one to translate and / or purport. I mean, I understand from your side - I feel the same way. No debt (I don't count mortgage, amusingly), spend within your means, take care of your cars and work your way up over time, etc. (Also in my case, refuse to have children...my own personal flavor on the…

Still, from time in a few A4s, it seems like this is definitely a step down. Even in the cheapest Audi, you're generally able to flex that "I have an Audi interior" muscle. I subscribe to the ethos that my performance-oriented car should be very bare bones on the interior, but this just seems odd.

Really, this could be equally applied in my eyes over a much greater swath of the population by changing the context to riding motorcycles.

I think I've wavered back to KAT project vs. SR swap on the 240 ownership that will likely only ever exist in my head.

Y u no 2012 -> 2013 Civic?

This is like people walking away from a stealership beaming because they totally got an extended warranty out of the dealer after harsh negotiations on their Honda / Toyota.

I'm freaking out about it because it has the eyes of a human being.

You know what the biggest sport in Minnesota is? High school fucking hockey. I turn on the MN TV broadcast of Wild games from time to time, and during the intermissions, where every other hockey broadcast will do featurettes and feel-good stories about their team or their players, they actually, every fucking time,…

All I want is the RX-8 with the Mazdaspeed 3 powerplant rotated a little bit.

If only I was so inclined to do an LS swap myself...

If the handling / steering was numb, you'd complain about that too.

In completely unrelated news, Doug's Ferrari is up for sale effective immediately.

The glee in owning a beater is a strange phenomenon. It's like the personal realization of every Top Gear episode where they buy an old car and make a predictable show of "falling in love" with the car, where you thought they were just doing it for TV.

I've put thousands into this car through oil / fluid changes, a new (rebuilt) transmission, tires, and car washes! $3k over KBB dealership retail is a STEAL!

I want it just like that. Full beak and all.

Welllll, maybe not JUST like that. Maybe with some actual usable seats.

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Next, this guy will work on getting to the "unfinished island" on the first level of Goldeneye without no-clipping cheats.