Via personal experience, these things had problems with their rear-ends. Differentials wouldn’t last. Has to do with weight. Uses the same diff as was used in the car chassis it was based on. Good luck.

Lets say 32mph to 0mph in 0.5 seconds. Another way to experience 2G’s.

You said “all sensors talk to each other”. Which is inherently not true. They sense and report. Actually they don’t even report. They are interrogated. None of them interact with each other. Obviously the on-board computer systems do the interpretation of the various sensors, and then effect a change somewhere in the…

You can’t call this a hatchback. This is still a sedan ala Honda CrossTour, which sucked.

I use torx screws all of the time. Nothing better. No slippage or grinding the head off the screw. I’d just prefer that philips and slotted screws disappeared.

I use torx screws all of the time. Nothing better. No slippage or grinding the head off the screw. I’d just prefer…

My very first reaction to driving my son’s Prelude was “Wow, those seats!”. They are in fact comfortable and great at securing your body from slippage during hard cornering. I’m 6'6". If that makes any differance.

You could use a handheld X-Ray Flourescent analyzer to determine the metal content. Or you could buy the entire stock of that particular part from your local parts store for the cost of the analyzer. My local college has one available (Colorado School of Mines). You just have to know the right person to talk to.

The thing that I found curious was the way things were packed in that shipping container. Engines on top of engines. Oh, and then let’s jam in a whole car on top of all that. How’d they even get it in there?

Really. 8 years old and still required backseat restraint. Give me a break. My mom put us 6 kids in 1962 Chevy station wagon. I rode in the back with my little sister. We thought it was cool because the floor board was rusted out and we could drop little pebbles through the hole onto the drivers behind us. Mom never…

I actually need a butt-crack shaver. Oh what ..... TMI?

I actually need a butt-crack shaver. Oh what ..... TMI?

Meow.

Perhaps the boom, was a backfire, that did something to the intake path ... blocking it in some way. No air in, nothing to compress.

Having shopped for a GTI during all of 2016, I can tell you the only way to get a decent price was to finance. VW offered substantial discounts ($3k - $5k) on the GTI if you borrowed. And it wasn’t a bad deal because the interest rates were 2.99%. So the finance arm of VW made lots of money, but basically took it from…

What California wants, may be the savings grace from Trump’s rollback of EPA efficiency standards. And go one step further, Europe can put the knife in Trump’s back by requiring a certain level of emissions and MPG standards.

So I sort of want my next car to be a GTI but I am torn. Should I really support a company that is so disreputable?

If it’s the final edition, then I want the last one, not the first one.

What, in anyones opinion then, is the perfect vehicle that combines just the right mixture of sport, beauty and utility? I sort of like the new Volvo Polestar wagon. Great lines, pretty fast, and you know it can haul of bunch of stuff.

Just gun it you idiot.

All great tips! I often run into the scenario where I use my floor jack to raise the car from the designated lift point. Then there is no great place to put the jack stand as it is currently occupied.

Worked for me. In 1969 I talked my mom into buying a ‘69 Roadrunner. My big selling point was the size of the trunk (we were a traveling family). Best part ... that car eventually became mine!