My 69-year old mom picks up her Type-R next week. I’ll keep you posted.

I’ll probably still get one, but just wait a while for a GR version, as well as the eventual mid-cycle refresh. When a car hits it’s “kouki” version, those tend to be the best versions, as all the earlier lessons learned are applied.

From personal experience in California, the exhausts here don’t develop little holes, rather they find a seam or joint to split at due to wear, tear, and mileage, not because of rust.

Being a broke car enthusiast just makes you more resourceful. When I was broke, I scoured craigslist all the time, and visited the junkyard often. I’d always pick cars that couldn’t get any cheaper, but I felt would appreciate over a couple years, and kept working my way up.

Quick tip: Use Elmer’s white glue for gluing any of the clear plastic pieces on. It won’t deform or cloud the lenses and windows, and dries clear.

No joke, I’ve high-centered a car on one of our roads here. 

If it had been Russia, every car involved would have had a camera.

Inaccurate. There are no drunken jort-wearing Bogans in that poster.

Fixed it.

*To be fair

I agree. On my BRZ tS I replaced the Subaru badge on the trunk with an STI badge like the JDM and AUS market tS’s use (and the US was going to get until everyone started complaining it wouldn’t be a real STI model because no 300HP turbo.)

I had no idea that Bel-Air had a Hyundai dealership.

I can confirm. When I was a kid in Germany, my dad bought a 528i E28 which at the time was the hottest 5er you could get, and ordered it with badge delete (as well as cloth recaros, BBS wheels, and full m-tech aero.) No one ever wanted to call out that they got the big engine.

Haha, totally. I had to replace a bunch of sheetmetal on my Z despite the fact it spent its entire life in Southern California (and not by the beach either.)

Too be fair, that one is a super rare JDM-only Bluebird fastback coupe that’s known around SoCal for winning classic Japanese car shows.

For that you need a BRZ/86/FRS.

In terms of roadsters, the Toyobaru twins are doing awful. They’ve only built one, and sold zero.

A70 Supras weren’t all that affordable. A 1989 turbo like the one pictured, started at $49,559.67 adjusted for inflation.

I hate that people judge BMW’s by their numbers. My wife had a 128i she loved, but sold it because of all the people at the investment firm she worked at referred to it as the “cheap wannabe BMW.”

Thanks, I was going to mention that I had an ‘81 Accord back around 2012-2013, and that thing would give low 40's mpg all day, even with the ridiculous Honda-matic transmission.