Fair enough.

That’s pretty impressive for an F1 engine in my book. Not saying I’d personally choose to spend $3 million on one, but dang.

Eh, maybe in the same way Edsels are classics. A massive faux pas by an automaker relegated to a historical footnote.

I bet Murilee wishes he were the one who spotted it in that junkyard.

That explains why the cars they make break all the time: They think you should be working instead of having fun, thus they make you constantly repair the fucking thing instead of being able to drive it.

I’m one of those people who strongly desired a CTR 20 years ago, but today I’d much rather have a Civic LX with the normally aspirated 2.0L and the manual gearbox than this new Civic SRT-4, were I planning a trip to my local Honda dealer anytime soon.

Meh, the PDK is an incremental improvement over a manual at best. If Porsche were really serious about using a transmission with the absolute maximum performance potential in these cars, they would’ve spent the last 20 years developing a CVT.

It’s not that I don’t like the name itself, it’s that I don’t like it for a British car. It’s too Wagnerian. Too ... German.

That’s why you make the owner sign a release.

I’d love to have one with a souped-up 328 mill under the hood. I wonder if anyone makes hot cams for Ferraris...

Like this isn’t?

I haven’t watched any of the new-format TGUK shows yet, and don’t find myself missing it. Oddly, I do miss TGUS, though. I think I’d rather see new episodes of that.

The shop can make them sign a release. And if high speeds or aggressive driving are “necessary” to test drive the car, that test drive needs to happen on a track, not public roads.

I’m of the opinion that shops need to completely abandon the so-called test drive. If the car must be driven to ensure proper functionality after repairs, modification or other work, have the car’s owner come in and do the actual driving with a mechanic riding shotgun. No shop employee should be driving customer cars…

I’ve looked for one, but so far the ones I’ve found won’t cover daily-driven cars. If it were my second car it would be fine, and the rates seem reasonable (no worse than insuring a new $17,000 car), but the mileage limits were a dealbreaker.

I assume it’s fear of fraud, but it’s possible such policies exist here and I just haven’t talked to the right company yet.

I wish you and your family all the best, and hope things improve soon. Godspeed.

LOL, all I see is your dumb ass projecting your own insecurities on others by saying things like “Apple users think they’re more with it than other people,” and bitching about how someone being able to construct a sentence is in some way an attempt to make you feel stupid. You also seem to have forgotten that you…

Eh, I don’t think the GT is a very good-looking car, you can’t get one with a manual gearbox, and I still really don’t like the idea of putting turbochargers in the V of the engine.

My Aunt loves her 1st-gen Cooper S, which she bought new in ‘06 and now has more than 200,000 miles on the clock. But the damn thing is no stranger to the inside of the shop, and it’s never cheap when it needs yet another repair. Basically, she’s like an Alfa owner: she loves the way it drives and is willing to put up…