Nice grab! Everytime I get the hankering to have some flat 6 music in my life, 986s are exactly where I look... mostly on account of what my budget normally is for purchasing a car (read: virtually free—purchase vehicle with problems—fix said problems or use as opportunity to upgrade—then enjoy).

My snide remarks aside on the 130r in another reply... Thinking about what concepts that didn’t make it into production that I would have really liked... Well, in the ‘90s I was a big Ford fan. I was aware of a couple epic concepts they made in the mid ‘90s. The GT90 and, the one I saw in person at my first Detroit…

I’m mad I just found out GM used the term 130R for a vaporware POS.

There’s only one 130R.

Whoohoo, congrats!

Can’t deal with a tan VW interior. Gets too dirty too easily.

I had a black 1989 GTI 16V. Diff pin let go and punched a hole in the transmission as I was moving to California. Wouldn’t mind that one back.

I think it’s less to do with the log manifolds and more to do with the 90 degree offset to the crank rather than being more of a flat plane like the Lamborghini version of the same engine.

I’ve been to a couple ALMS races where Judd V10 and V8 powered cars were competing. Couldn’t quite compete with the Audis, but they sounded good!

The Buick line up also has quite a few Daewoo/Korean-built vehicles in it... including the Encore. Seriously. Go look up for sale ads for new ones that contain the VIN number... note the first digit you see. First letter is country of where final assembly occurs... K is Korea. J is Japan. 9 is Brazil. 1 and 5 are…

Oof. As someone who’s worked for a dealer whose brand (VW) is notoriously stingy on warranty reimbursements... Ouch.

I love racing for being the one sport where at the top level, women can compete with men. Biological women. Cisgendered, whatever you want to call it.

Depends on the level of racecar, I suppose. But at the same time there already are a number of biological women who compete at the same level as men in motorsport. That’s the great thing about motorsport is, while yes, it can be very physically intense, it isn’t necessarily about brute strength. It’s more about…

THANK you for the reality check on that one.

I suspect the dual motor AWD version will be a decent bit faster...

I don’t hate it. Not a bad looking car. Lots of space, very utilitarian/practical.

Hope the engine was replaced with a new one. There’s so many pitfalls on EA888 engines it’s not even funny. And 2012 was the last year for the old style chain tensioner from the factory... so if I were a betting man, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out the cause of the previous engine’s failure was the timing chain…

All 52 hp worth!

Yeah... that is pretty rad.

As Thirdmort mentioned, Bangle’s most panned design when new, the E60, has really aged quite well. It was almost jarring at first, just not something that felt worthy of replacing the timeless lines of the E39, but somehow we got used to it and even started to like it many years later.

I dunno about this. There is an infield road course at Auto Club that gets quite a lot of use thanks to its proximity to car-centric L.A.. You take that away, you take away a decent source of revenue for the track when a major event is not in town. Besides, L.A. is a historic and sports car town in which car owners…