True, but if you are still just shopping around it isn’t always practical to investigate every single potential purchase fully before seeing them in person. I eliminate the majority of cars because their head rests are canted uncomfortably far forward, so no need to waste time on a thorough investigation into the…

I’m an anomoly then, as I’m probably getting a new Escape. Smallest car available (that I could find) that has a high enough tow rating to pull my track car (or close to it, I’ll be about 600 lbs over with the trailer). I know tow rating is just marketing, and cars like the SS have them in the rest of the world but…

I’ve noticed when car shopping with women along (little sister, gf, mom, so 10 years younger, close in age, and 30 years older) that the salesmen (and the rare women salespeople mostly at higher end brands) always focus in on the woman and almost ignore me. They do dumb down what they say, talk about looks and colors…

Modern waxes work great.

Mostly playing with online configurators, especially if you select the two tone interior.

There are still a bunch that have earthy red, but it looks enough like wet clay to be even more cave-like imo.

Am I the only one who hates metallic paint? It is the reason my last 5 cars have been white, because it is the only non-metallic color I could get (except the Sti, but my Mustang broke down in front of the dealer and they didn’t have a blue one in stock) Is it purely cosmetic, or is there something about modern paints…

I had a friend call me late one night because his rear wheels fell off. I went by to pick him up, and we walked down the street and found one in the bushes and one in the bed of a truck that it must have bumped into and bounced up into. Turned out he had replaced his axles and forgot to put back in the cotter pins…

I have an ex who liked drinking urine from the tap. No, I won’t share the videos. And she wasn’t even making 20% on it. So yeah, I’d take the pee.

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Is it the aluminum frame cart? Those are worth some a lot (relatively) here, due to them being the lightest legal ones for racing league. The motor not so much, but can swap it back.

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You forgot the E30 BMW. Here is a picture of mine.

Be annoying and whine until they give you a good deal just to get you to leave. I’ve seen it work a bunch of times.

My friend’s wife does it, and there are exceptions to every rule. Roller Derby is kind of an outlier in itself, at least around here. I never intended to say that women can’t be that way, nor that men must be, but that society tends to push them in certain directions.

You forgot the duck call BOV, to go along with the Subaru theme. And the fact that the new motor is a turbo.

I have a theory. Based on what I’ve read, and that itself was probably at least a decade ago, the main difference procedurally between EU and ‘Merican safety testing is that in the EU the dummies are sitting with proper posture and snug seat belts, while the US has more casual crash dummies. Now that could all be BS…

Yeah, but they tend to compete in different ways. Society basically understands that once in a while a guy will deserve to get punched in the face, but women are encouraged to fight each other in different ways. Things like the bump and run or whatever it is called in NASCAR are more along the lines of the punch him…

I live in a pretty liberal area, but even here women are not usually taken seriously in racing. On the grassroots level, I heard many of the racers say that women should have the advantage since they tend to be smaller and so can use more ballast for weight distribution, but that they lack the killer instinct…

I recently went through this with a friend, helping him decide. For him, the answer was a lightly used 458, because it is the rawest, most extreme vehicle in the price range. We both pretty much agreed on each car we tried, though if I decide to swap out the Sti (which I’m having stupid fun in now that I got it to…