Seems like the kind of situation where you should wear a helmet.

Chao is probably the either the most or the second most qualified cabinet secretary in this administration (tossup with Mattis). She was the deputy transportation secretary under HW.

If my parents don’t move to NYC (where they won’t need a car at all) their next vehicle will be all electric. They drive more than 100 miles in a day no more than 3-4 times a year, especially now that they’re both retired. They don’t like driving their current (gas) car long distances, so they already rent for these…

4th: we don’t just love trucks — we love trucks which are basically luxury cars, and we spend a shitload on them as a result. MB does luxury better than any other big manufacturer. They should give it a shot in the US and see how it does.

If I were turning it into a GC8, I’d definitely do a 6-speed swap at the same time. The 5-speed is fine for 165hp, but it’s just not up to 300.

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 thinkin’ more like this, but with science & beer.

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.

No no no... that’s the observatory. Returning to the grand tradition of monks doing our science!

Then we’d clearly have had to “civilize” them.

Beat me to it. Have a star.

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.