Like me, I’m sure they tried, but it’s probably not a good sales technique to detail your failures on a project when you’re trying to get 5 figures for it. I agree - sell the motors separately.

And how should we address the commonly-used ‘snuck’? I hate that one. The water heater didn’t luck onto the floor, it leaked, and as a corollary, you sneaked into the theater, not snuck.

My frustration? The use of ‘and’ instead of ‘to’, as in “I’ll try and get to that” Grrrrr...

What about those that confuse it with a musical instrument and spell it “viola”?

Will we someday see the German equivalent of Bob Lutz doing what Lutz did to the Fisker Karma? What’s the European version of the LS engine?

When they’re old and inefficient, or need heavy maintenance, they’ll practically be given away. A few years back I was looking at a Lockheed L-1011 operated by Rich Internaational. It needed a D-Check and you couldn’t get parts for the engines, but other than that it seemed OK. The price for all of this widebody…

If anyone’s interested I have some amusing tales about this aircraft. One actually involves me almost being involved with a newsworthy incident whilst doing some work on it in Las Vegas. The other involves its time with Alaska Airllines and accusations of sexual harrassment...

Because of the weight, or lack of it, you really don’t need to do much to the brakes. Decent pads and some vented rotors are all you really need to do.

It just made the weight distribution worse than a regular Rabbit, with even more weight on the nose due to the lack of glass and metal and interior in the back half. Combine that with agricultural leaf springs instead of the slightly more sophisticated twist beam rear axle and it’s a mess.

I think I saw a nicely restored one, albeit not over-the-top, selling for $125K a few years ago. Crazy...

I can’t say that I’ve memorized a lot of MSRPs, but I fell in love with the Rabbit GTI when it was new and bought a used one in the summer of ‘84. I knew all of the specs and read all of the articles and can quote all sorts of numbers about this vehicle. I might be a bit of a savant in that regard...

My parents. My dad may haver died when I was eight, but I still remember the crappy bugeye Sprite and trips to visit a friend that had some sort of Can Am car in the garage - the noise was amazing. Up until recently I had a clay model of a Morgan that he made; you could still see the imprints from my Lego blocks that…

Understeer from hell, from firsthand experience. Moar power = moar problems.

The ‘83 GTI was the most expensive Rabbit available that year and had a base price of $7,990, rising to $8,350 the next year. Even fully-loaded, I doubt that this vehicle when new exceeded the base price of a GTI.

Nope, no way, no chance, forget about it, don’t bother.

All good points, but I’m voting with my heart here and not my head. The ‘80s were formative years for me, so nostalgia is running high. I definitely hated working on Japanese cars of that vintage with all of those vacuum lines, and preferred the relative simplicity of water-cooled VWs.

OK, where’s the downside on this? Sure, it’s old, and yeah, it’s not a coupe, but other than that I can’t find any problems. A manual transmission as well? Sold.

Close, but too orange. Needs more gold:

Look at those fonts - so ‘70s...

That would be a solid choice. I’ve got a lot of fond memories of borrowing my boss’s car back in the day to run all sorts of errands. It was an RX-7 convertible, and whilst not fast, did give me a great introduction to the joys of the rotary engine. As an engine for an Ro80, ‘not quick’ would probably be appropriate.