Also handbrake turns, those should be a design priority in a car like this.

VW’s parking brake arrangement for disks works really well though (I have an old Seat and it works great for autocross). Rear disks on the Up! would help with handbrake turns on tight autocross courses on which it’s probably already very fun.

Huge petrolhead, I read that he was actually annoyed by his McLaren F1 appreciating so much that he could no longer use it (I’m guessing insurance) so that’s why he sold it.

I got a ticket a couple of months ago like this; I was driving my brother’s car in Florida and even though he’d paid the registration he didn’t place the sticker. Later found the valid sticker that my brother had been too lazy to place in the car’s glove box.

I’m from Guatemala -which is a third world country- and it’s the same here (except for the getting pulled over thing, that just pretty much never happens).

Also rented one once and I remember distinctly the sound of the engine. Obviously in any small car you need to rev the engine a bit to get it moving but this one in particular sounded not happy. Next time I needed to rent a car the options were Versas in any color you can think of and a tiny, base model automatic Fiat…

It’s a discreet armored car so probably most customers will be embassies, foreign dignitaries and such; I think the people you’re talking about tend to go for armored G classes and similar.

You’re not the first one to have that idea...

I remember a really cool party near the beach I went to when I was about 16 or 17 (a long time ago). All the cars later got stuck on the sand except for a buddy’s old Subaru wagon, so I’m gonna go with old Subaru wagon.

Shoulda used some Slick 50

Haha, yet my ex gf managed to blow up the engine in her 05 (or whereabouts) Corolla two days after buying it.

I convinced my mom to buy a loaded Forester recently, a few months later a friend of mine bought a base BMW X1 for about the same amount and his interior is way, WAAAY nicer. However the Subie is AWD, much better off road and has about 100 more horses so I guess it’s about having the money go either to the interior or…

Didn’t he get away though? Thought he’d done it after he lost the helicopters. If I had to choose I’d still go for Hellcat, or a Koenigsegg.

I honestly don’t know how he fit in it, I have a friend who’s about 6'5 and there is absolutely no way that he can drive either my Morris or my dad’s GT6 and both are larger than the Spridget. (At 5'7 myself I have the seats ALL the way to the back)

Not having to open the door to pick something up from the ground is safer than opening the door and getting out of the car in the middle of traffic obviously

Honesty? There are just two words in that ad and neither apply to the car.

I mean, Porsche themselves did it to the 959 and that worked.

Stef, as a Porsche fan you must agree that something more legendary is needed, Porsche 956 or 917 maybe?

Or any oil with lots of detergents as they will clean the leaks and make them flow much better

I always run “classic” specific oil on the vintage cars and bikes because apparently it has more additives (that would be horrible for an engine with a catalytic converter but help a lot on older stuff) and also less detergents (which actually helps the oil clog up small leaks). 20W-50 and a couple of the bikes…