It seems like all midsize trucks look even more identical than the full size ones these days.

Yep - sounds familiar.

As a kid, I remember riding home with a friend’s dad who owned a mid 90s Toyota Celica with a manual. I thought it was a cool car until he kept grinding gears on every shift.

I’ve never heard so much gear grinding in my life. I’m not sure if his synchros were shot or he was just that bad at…

Can confirm that it’ll fit on Angeles Crest.

I drove an Ecoboost convertible I rented in San Diego on Angeles Crest a few years ago and it was a blast.

The most fun I’ve ever had on any road, frankly.

Half of why you buy a Mustang is to tinker with it. I know that people outside the culture don’t understand that, but it’s true.

That said, I’ve heard a lot of conflicting reports on the MT-82s. Some people seem to love them, some people seem to hate them.

I do know this: there are a lot of people who think they know…

It’s been a ton of labor for me because I live in the rust belt. I had a hard time finding an IRS in general so when one showed up in Illinois, I jumped on it even though it was rusty as heck.

I spent the last year grinding, sanding, and painting the thing back to its former glory. I also did a Full Tilt Boogie…

I’d check Facebook marketplace if I were you. I see them all the time but nothing is cheaper than $22k for a decent one from what I’ve seen.

Life is getting busy for me too. My wife is due with our first child in September and I’m trying to get the IRS into place before then.

I am slowly building my own Fauxbra in my garage.  I purchased an IRS from a wrecked Cobra and I’m putting in the GT.  Getting the suspension right before I mess with the engine.  You can get a clean GT under $5k.

This car has zero appeal to me.

It looks like a boxy Volvo mated with an R32.

That’s class action for you.  Lawyers run away with a mint and everyone else is left with nothing.

Shareholders are mostly the problem, frankly.

This was frankly their plan in general.  Manuals are going away, sadly.

I have a T45 Tremec in my Mustang.

It, too, seems happiest once it is warmed up as well.

A lot of it, in my opinion, is because of fluid viscosity changing because of temperature. It runs a straight-weight transmission fluid that becomes like maple syrup in the winter.

So obviously it’ll be harder to shift when it’s…

In my opinion, that’s really more a product of Ford being publicly traded on the stock market than a product of the “American way” of doing business.

There are many American companies who believe in quality and doing it right the first time.

Even Ford did at one time ... but their shareholders have pressured them over…

Yes, but the Mustang is primarily an American market car. They are selling it other places too - but it makes no sense for Ford to invest in a transmission for a market that is shrinking.

I like Ford, but this MT82 transmission is garbage. They’ve known about it being garbage for years and have done nothing to fix it.

F…

It’s obvious that Ford would rather if manuals just went away.

They invested all kinds of money in the 10 speed automatic instead.

No one can argue with the performance, but the styling is a hard pass for me. It looks like a Rock Star Games-imagined version of a Ferrari 360 for GTA.

I realize all of the safety standards these days tend to ruin car design, but part of what made the old Corvette cool was the low-slung, long hood.

Now it reads…

If you’re the only person with a fairly rare car without license plates, how anonymous are you, really?

It makes you stand out more, if anything.

Which fits in very well with Apple ethos.

Apple = Humble Brag

Jobs wanted to simultaneously flex AND speak to his “woke” privacy crowd. He could claim he was anonymous when he…

No, but that’s a good idea.

I’m sure that someone named Teutonic Tonic doesn’t drink any teutonic tonic, right?

If I bought the wrong car ... can’t you say that for literally any car that someone doesn’t like for some reason?

You bought the wrong Brand Model XYZ.

I don’t think I bought the wrong Jetta. It’s the car I wanted so I don’t know how…

I can’t speak for the MK4, but my MK5 Jetta definitely does NOT have everything metal. I’ve lost a lot of plastic crap somewhere in the engine bay, never to be found again (including high beam gaskets and clips that hold the 02 sensors in place on the cowl rail) because of their impossible locations and complicated…