Plan appropriately and you can have a fun car AND kids...as long as you’re able to talk your significant other into it!

My parents drove three kids around our whole childhood in one of these, which is smaller than almost any compact sedan on the market today:

They’re both hatches: 3 door vs 5.

A Brit friend of mine told me that despite the weather, you guys have the highest incidence of per-capita convertible ownership. He described this as, “an example of eternal optimism.” Needless to say, he insists on driving one here in Tennessee where the weather is nice most of the year.

I was looking for a manual LGT wagon last spring. I gave up and bought an STI hatch. The 2.5rs is more of a long term thing: I wanna build my own GC8 eventually, and figure I should get the base coupé now before they get even more rare.

I have some idea of his salary because he’s the newest member of a team which had some amount of (semi) public debate as to their pay last year. Suffice it to say that it’s no surprise all the vehicles are old and weird and mostly only partially restored.

The Saab branded ones are great, but hard to find. People who have them in good condition seem to be holding on to them.

The difference is that the RS and Golf-R are both softer than the STI, while the Evo was harsher (all stock, of course). Also, the Ford and VW are both German built and show it — I can imagine being very comfortable going 150mph on the Autobahn in either — while the Mitsubishi and Subaru are quintessentially Japanese.

I gave up on finding anything I wanted in RWD. AWD is 80% the fun and much easier to find.

I’ve been trying to find one of these for the last three months. They’re hard to find at all, and the ones you do find are beat to shit.

I have the opposite problem: when someone finds out I’m into cars, they start wanting to talk about them. Then I’ve usually got two minutes of excitement before I realize they don’t actually know anything. I don’t even know that much — I’m a terrible wrencher — but I still know and can do more than 99% of people out…

There’s a guy at work who has 20+ cars. He drives each one in one day a month. I don’t know where he keeps all of them.

Car shopping as a car enthusiast is the worst. My old car started to really die in fall of 2015. If I didn’t care, I’d have bought a Prius or some small crossover and been done with it in a week. But oh, no! I had to have 200+ horsepower, AWD or RWD, a hatchback or wagon, and of course it had to have a stick. Know how…

The last line really explains everything before it. The irony of me, a dude, explaining mansplaining is not lost on me.

My old job, I was less than a 10 minute walk from work. It was amazing. Now, I can’t live less than a 20-25 minute drive from my office because I work at a secure government facility that is giant (it’s 10 minutes from the gate to my office) and they don’t build housing right outside. Given that baseline, I choose to…

I was an undergrad in NYC. My roommate grew up in a suburb north of the city, and his dad worked in Manhattan. The dad’s work paid for a parking space and a commuter rail pass, so he could either drive or take the train. He told me on days he drove, he had to decide whether to leave at 3pm or at 7. Anything in between…

I wish I could take the train to work. There’s a bus, but I’d have to get on it at 6:30 to go in and I’d have to leave at 4 (it only runs twice a day) neither of which is feasible.

I’m allowed to telecommute as long as I don’t have a meeting or need to be in the lab. I rarely do it because I’m far less productive working at home. It’s nice if I need to take a half day though, cuz the commute would just kill the benefits.

I agree: the Magnaflow doesn’t impress. It was the first video I found where the exhaust was easily audible, probably because that’s what they’re advertising. It also makes this a direct side by side comparison.

What’s the project?