Settle down, Beavis.

I believe that is a magnesium case. 2.7 l is about all of the displacement that case can handle. (2.8rsr motors may have been mag cases, but they were high strung race motors that don’t last as long as street motors do).

Check the pics in the auction. Engine is completely disassembled, case split. That’s gonna be a $10-15k rebuild.

I could sit and wonder...or just not care. You’re still wrong and you still sound pretty dumb.

Great article, Jason. I’ve been pretty uninterested in supercars for a while for many of the same reasons that you laid out.

Only in VA. ;)

You sound like someone who has never driven one. Your assessment is incorrect.

Yeah, no anthropomorphic on the car...in Porsches, assholes are in the car. ;)

Careful what you wish for, Doug.

He garage was already full of inflatible mattresses.

I hear that Sean MacDonald is looking for work. You may have read some of his fine writing here.

You’re probably right - hatch vs sedan certainly does change the weight distribution.

Yeah, both of these would have been a deal breaker for me too. Somehow, I was able to call a dealer who happened to have one. I scheduled a test drive. When I arrived, they told me that they had two people who wanted to put a deposit on it.

The TT is an entirely different car than the Golf - it has a different wheelbase and completely different suspension. Not so much on the S3, the underpinnings are nearly identical to the Golf R. As far as I understand it, the only change is in the suspension valving.

Quite a few people did this, especially after getting jerked around by VW dealers on the ordering process and wanting markups.

I think that the R is a pretty good value at ~$37k. Let’s look at comparable cars.

Missing option: Portal doors, which could probably also be used for some sort of amazing automated crash prevention system...or a very clever method of handling left lane lollygaggers.

It just proves to show that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a fraudulent check is a good guy with a gun.

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At least by the numbers, that ain’t bad.