Anytime my friend! Glad I could share the good word!

nope! 911. In other words, I think people looking at the RS6 Avant aren’t *just* looking at a wagon. 

fair.

this illustration is perfect.

It’s actually pretty spacious, even with the front seats moved back. 

1967 Pontiac GTO with a 389 Tri-Power and four-speed manual. That’s her with the updo.

For the life of me I can’t find the spark plugs on the Oldsmobile diesel!

...but still unbelievably capable.

The Wheeler family was driving a Colony Park wagon, which is period-correct, but it had a third brake light...so technically it was an ’86 or ’87.

please give me an air suspension. Please, please, please.

my TT-RS. It was a fragile little bunny on the track. Brakes overheated constantly, and the 3rd gear synchro lasted a little over 15,000 miles. The engine was thrilling, both in sound and in power, but as a complete package, it was a total letdown. Back to Porsche for me.

still not giving up my allroad.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this.

GM was going to launch a ripoff version in 1986 on their cars, starting with the Buick Riviera & Electra. Ford sued and it never made it past the brochures.

as a fellow writer, I wholly identify and cannot make that promise.

Carerra?

2nd this.

I’ve got a 2008 Cayman S with 30K miles, and most of those are track miles. In that span of time, I’ve had to replace exactly two things: a radio fuse and an air-to-oil separator. Otherwise, the thing has been bulletproof.

By contrast my 2013 TTRS at 15K miles, also a track rat, has squeaks and rattles, the…

surprisingly it stays in the console! But the throws are certainly long and instead of snick-snick it's CLUNK-CLUNK

you pretty much nailed how it feels. It is a truck shifter on every level.

dreams, deferred: