$14K for a rusting pile of trash?  Is this a joke?

The engine is a major disappointment. Big, heavy, and weak. 

Eh, ND. To me the fun of a crazy-ass car like this is the build. It’s be silly excitement for a few weekend afternoons, but once you’ve taken your buddies for a their pointless 20 minute “holy shit!” ride, no one — including yourself — is going to be all that excited to drive it. After that its always going to be too…

An SI motor would go well in this thing for sure. Help balance out the weight load.

too much engine.  I would want a turbo 4 or something lighter in the front end.  I think this would be a great way to die but not at 20K.  No dice. 

Trumpster might start WWIII with all those nukes he’s been itching to drop, you might not have to suffer the whole 4 years.  I live close enough to DC that I’ll go quickly in the first counterstrike.

More like 50 once he replaces Thomas & Alito.

You are assuming that the housing market drops but your wealth and spending power isn’t similarly eroded?

We’re all so fucked. I can’t believe we have to deal with 4 more years of this bullshit.

They know what they’ve got, and should keep it.  ND.

I’m way too anxious to run out of gas. I’m almost 70 and never even came close.

Neat car, but why would you want to spend $8K on it plus the costs to store, maintain and drive it? It’d be akin to finding your granddad’s flashlight from 1970 in the bottom of an old toolbox. Sure, it still works, but it’s dim, heavy, and practically useless compared to anything else made in the last 20 years.

I applaud but dont share your confidence.  I remember thinking what a blowout it would be in ‘16.  And how matter-of-fact it would be in ‘20.  So now....I’m hoping logic/reason prevails, but no confidence that the bubbas and neckbeards will skip the vote to get their meth fix.

Does a brand new $20k car come with rust, a rebuilt/replaced engine, and a rolled over odometer?

I’m sorry, I don’t care what you say, they were terrible then, they are terrible today. That diseasel was what made me hate diesel for the rest of my life. Rip it out, and put a proper engine in, or an electric motor.

Cool car but I don’t know that I would want to brag that I was willing to pay more than anyone else in the country for it. 

I think if you could get negative numbers on a crash score this would have -10.  The entire car is a crumple zone.

Is our market so fucked right now that a 45 year old VW has appreciated to nearly double its MSRP when it was new? ND until that extra zero comes off.

Toyota:  We’re gonna tease you with what you want, but good fucking luck ever being able to buy it from us.

They explained it in Batman Begins—two would use the boost to jump across a river, towing cables that they could use to build the foundation of a bridge.