Good points and your approach is exactly why I chose the GTI over the 328. The performance is really close and while the BMW is a little nicer, for me the GTI was so good for the money, the BMW couldn’t justify its premium.

This damn thing.

I fucking love this article. Just like you, I grew up in a time when Hot Rods were “candy coat show queens” with $40,000 in Summit Racing chrome shit driven by guys too old to be my grandpa.

For $100,000 you could buy 200 Hyundai Accents and control the flow of traffic wherever you go.