Well, I think the Yaris was already 39-45K. But lets be honest, that was a quasi-custom platform and wasn’t cheap to produce. But folks were willing to not oly pay for it but used where going over MSRP. The current MSRP (lol) for the Corolla is 20-26Kish.

Ahh, here at your Inoffensive Toyota of West Northwestern Suburb we call it Desert Sand Mica. Please note that Ms. Karen D’Toole here wishes to have her color customized with Desert Sand Mica exterior AND the Pebble Beige Cloth seat trim. Yes we have fifty of those on the lot with a 4-speed automatic with overdrive!

So just your average day at a methadone clinic?

Well, the choice is to keep the MR2 and the Ginny and add the GR Corolla or swap the Corolla for the Ginny. I guess it depends on cost. Anything under 40K will be easy. The Ginny’s is a 90-95% great car (shifter/clutch action lets it down... but the sound- oh my). But it is very much a fantastic GT option with a…

Beats standing in line at your local VW service manager desk with a second mortgage application....

A properly built toyota (not rebadged) performance car based off the Corolla.

Won’t trade my MR2 in... but my Genesis Coupe might be in trouble.

Whatever slot car track my younger brother put together. It would never keep connectivity and the orange shag carpet of the 80s would get into anything remotely statically charged.

^ Agree 1000% And have fun with that K20 Fiero. Woot...

Mr2 hooning, nothing could be better! And it take some big ones to willing break the rear out. Yikes.

I wish, but most bike/ped is indirectly constructed through “highway” projects - see complete streets. The “bike/ped” TAP-DA or even STBG-DA funding is peanuts so you tend to get more with a road project. So a lack of funding means that we keep the 1950s-2010 road infrastructure. Even if it is a moderization project…

Yeah, the other posted example highly upvoted was 9:33 - seven minutes after - oh well - it happens C’est la vie - :)

Nice, nothing like a little 8-bit rage quit.

No, I have not....

Nice, nothing like a little 8-bit rage quit.

If I was the Governor, I would blame all those solar panels, wind farms, and ecogreenies for coming up short in the supply chain....

Here in NC, we are looking at about a 8 BILLION dollar shortfall in the NCDOT budget for STIP programming. It was looking bleak pre-pandemic but the drop in VMT cause it to be worse. Now with a gas-tax holiday, dang, you might not be looking at any improvements/new projects for decades.

Generally agree, but it isn’t impossible, you just have to use it carefully. The worse will have the mismatch but it does not disqualify all. Counter point:

Subaru’s mis-machined 2020+(?) wheels. They did not even bother to align the bolt pattern to the design nor the blacked out paint. So five bolts at unequal distances on a six/twelve design (that is kinda subaru ugly to begin with).

I have a simple 10 point system for taking on a project car. You start at 10 points, and then subtract from the following, and must remain a net positive to have a “project”. Won’t lie, this is more about “should” more than could but here it is: