Cheapest QF within 300 miles of me is $47k and it has 65k miles on it, they seem to be holding value well in my region (Coastal SE). The OG M2 with DCT does 0-60 in 4 flat roughly, the 2019+ comp is about .10 faster (but much faster in the 1/4).

I want to like this bike, and it looks great, but why can’t Harley offer something like this (decent power, decent suspension, decent looks, not TOOO heavy) with mid controls or mild rearsets to take advantage of the increased lean angles? (something like the Indian FTR comes to mind).

Same with the Guilia quadrifoglio, I want one bad, but I am not paying $80k for a vehicle that will be worth $50k after a year, doesn’t have a significant performance improvement over our current M2 and will spend half its life in the shop.  But they sure do look and sound amazing.

I think a lot of people are mistaking slow for bad. Some of these engines mentioned will literally run forever. When I think worst engine unreliability and general crappiness come to mind. 2.3 Lima’s and 22RE’s are slow, but they will run forever and then some.

I think the turning point was when the Coyote engine was released in the Mustang, over 400hp for like 35K at the time. But the real eye opener was the Hellcats, I live in a smallish town and there are at least 10 Hellcats (most with awful massive decals plastered on the sides) and no less than 30-40 SRT 392's.

Oh come on, you know there are people out there that game the system and have no need to be on benefits when there are truly people in need in our communities. 

I have to think the intention of this was to weed out the benefit cheaters collecting SNAP and rolling around in newer Benz AMG’s and stuff. Unfortunately it definately didnt play out that way, $7k barely buys reliable transportation in todays market.

As somebody who used to live just south of Michigan off of I-69 and about 20 miles from the Ohio state line I can concur. There is a reason I have only been there 3x in the past 10 years to visit my mom (She does get regular phone calls though haha).

I got that thing up to about 140kph (85ish MPH) on a long straight stretch.  It was a newer TD5 version but to be fair it was loade down with work equipment. And the steering on those things were a joke on the road, but everything worked pretty damn good offroad.  As we proved driving through the desert in Spain.

The beauty of the old defenders were in their simplicity. They broke a lot but could be repaired with bailing wire and duct tape.  Source:  I drove a 110 wagon extensively as a work vehicle when I was in the UK.  Drove that thing all over Europe too, including maxed out on the Autobahn north of Hamburg (scary…

So Russell can get into a car with barely any testing and come close to making pole and also be fastest in practice first time up. Good for Russell, he is a solid driver. This goes to show one simple thing to me:

To be fair it was great for about 40k miles.  I was just concerned with reliability of an early model outside of warranty.  Only issue I had was a rough idle on the cold high idle that lasted a while.  Probably needed de-carboned

Gotcha, I know my wifes sister in Santa Monica didnt even leave her house all summer lol.

#2...I traded in my 2016 S3 right as it was running out of warranty. It had weird software glitches every once in a while and was not looking forward to DSG/Haldex issues down the road like they all get. I now have a bare bones GMC Canyon with a V6, tow package and locker. I miss the luxury sometimes but find the…

These things have a habit of the backbone frame being so rusty you will get tetanus looking at it. They had one on wheeler dealers and had to replace the ENTIRE frame because it was not salvageable.

Lived in the UK for 3 years so I have seen some amazing TVR’s...this however, is not one of them. Easily the ugliest and least reliable TVR’s made (and TVR’s are not knows for reliability). These are really cheap over there also. Give me a Tuscan, Tamora, T350 or Sagaris any day of the week over this monstrosity. 

Not sure where you are, but down in coastal Georgia we had less traffic for maybe a week?  Rest of the time its as hectic and packed as always.

Price. The GT86/BRZ is built to a price, if you add FI it would most likely be priced too close to the 2.0 Supra and more than the WRX unless they want to take a loss. Currently they are selling just fine at less than $30k and Im sure they are making a healthy profit on them.

How the hell is this one getting a NP and the STI from yesterday a ND? These things have dismal reliability, this one is overpriced by about $2k, if all the pixels on the dash are not gone already they will be next month and its an auto.

a roller STI is 8k in most of the country