The Civic VX was actually an amazing MPG machine, and using current EPA standards is still rated at 44 city, 51 highway.

It actually used VTEC to only open one intake valve at low RPM (to massively increase combustion chamber swirl), and because of that, was able to run a hyper-lean 25:1 in order to get some serious…

My personal favorite D&D character, a human warrior named Kelton, started out as a bit of a rip off of Minsc.

Where did you get the MPG numbers?

The 4cyl Automatic 2017 gets 24mpg combined, where the 4cyl automatic 1982 gets 20mpg combined.

Very likely...

You’d get a lot of trouble if it was the dealer that was responsible for the buyback portion.

And not necessarily because the dealer is skeezy. VW has been screwing dealers so hard recently (Good LORD it is hard to get a warranty claim processed these days. VW is trying to nickel and dime us to death, I…

Dealerships don’t care.

The only thing the dealer has to do with the buyback is that we’re a parking lot for the car to be dropped off at, and we’ve provided a desk for the court appointed buyback specialist to sit at. (Who works for neither the dealer nor VW corporate)

Us at the dealership, though? I couldn’t give…

The key word is such actions “may” prevent the buyback. Not that they “will”.

It leaves it up to the discretion of the committee whether or not that was a personal modification, an accident, or a deliberate and spiteful act.

Looking at the Alfa 4C as a comparison, a car that has a base price of $55k can still be specced with options up to a price as high as $80k.

Interior trim, carbon fiber accessories, lightweight forged wheels, track tires, Brembo brakes, performance tuned adaptive exhaust...

Extremely low volume car, but there are a…

Perhaps it was, but I’ll bet you any money that the new S(x) won’t be.

They’ll have optional nav, optional remote start, optional lane keep assist, keyless ignition, LED headlights, etcetera etcetera.

They’ll probably have the 3 pedal transmission be an optional, if they let you have it at all.

So... More distinctive than the jeep grill...

First two trucks look identical, except for logo
Third truck has a grille that is so jeep-like that it was the subject of a lawsuit.

They determined due to the fact that the bars on the hummer are of equal height as the headlight, rather than extend below the headlight like on a jeep, that means that the designs are different enough to not be trademark infringement.

Neither of those are the logo.

As far a I know, Jeep is the only brand that actively incorporates its logo into the styling of the vehicle.

Or rather, the only brand that used a design cue from their vehicle as their logo.

The Jeep logo is the Jeep grill, and vice-versa.

That one was an ‘00 with a Torsen, and my current is a ‘95, also with a Torsen.

Good lord the both of them are very easy to kick the tail out on, due to how abruptly a Torsen transfers power.

It was my first winter in CT with my Miata.

Now, it wasn’t my first winter in CT, nor was it my first winter in a RWD car. I handled the previous winter just fine in my Festiva, and prior to that, I’d had several Fox body Fords (two mustangs and a tbird). I thought I was perfectly capable of handling New England…

It works on the idea that your engine is most efficient at high throttle. And by efficient, I mean horsepower per gallon (or rather, Horsepower minutes per gallon), not miles per gallon. Your car is more efficient on converting gas into power with high throttle than low. Ergo, you can have a greater average…

Er...
2016 Z4: From $49,700
2016 Boxster: From $52,100
2016 4C: From $55,900
2016 370Z: From $29,990
2016 Corvette: From $55,450

So, yeah, the 370z undercuts the projected price of the S2000 successor, but the other cars are absolutely in that 50k price range, not 60.

Optioned, and as normally sold, absolutely, but what…

C&D speculates that we could see the reveal sometime in the fall of 2018 and that the S2000 will probably carry a price tag around $50,000, making it a far cry from the affordable-ish S2000 we got a decade ago.

It’s still ridiculous that a game forces you to stop playing in order to play.

“Do you want to progress in the story? Did you just start playing tonight, with the hope of putting a couple hours of fun down? NOPE! Turn off your game and come back tomorrow!”

I may not be personally responsible for the costs, but I have absolutely suffered a huge financial loss because of it, so don’t act like I’m just bitching about my own hurt feelings.

Also, piss off. You absolutely seem the sort of prick who’d miss the trash intentionally to make the janitor pick it up.

Service…

The problem with your analogy is that there’s nobody under the janitor who’s suffering for the incompetence of the janitor. The janitor is the low man on the totem pole.

My analogy is much, much more accurate, because in my analogy, the hapless janitor was doing his job just fine, but it turns out the company he…

And you’ve no idea who I am.

I don’t need to tell you my life story, and you don’t need to act like I’m wallowing in my own misery, and refusing to try to change my life.

Juggling a house, a family, and sanity is hard. Very hard.