Listening to multiple interviews with Gale Banks over the years, he is more interested in performance through increased efficiency and has frequently stated that smoke from a diesel means that the engine is running at an improper fuel/air ratio. With this in mind, I doubt that products from his company would produce…

From what I can tell, this is on the south side of the airport in the location of the former Imperial Terminal. It probably replaced a very nice, but rarely visited, aviation museum.

Although it will mean fewer in the used market for us cheapskates that prefer to buy used, BMW should revamp their pricing so that the M models are not the most expensive in the various model lines. This way the asshats that only want the most expensive model and have absolutely no intention of driving them as they…

I think it’s more about the performance at speed and not when starting from zero; initial traction would be an issue and negate many of the differences in power delivery. I’d like to see 40-60 and 60-100 times (or similar); that’s probably where the V12 really shines.

There’s an axiom that says for every problem there’s a solution that is quick, simple and wrong. I think that it certainly fits in this case, and the reason you don’t see any of these monstrosities on the ramp at your local airfield...

The state info threw me off as well. That place always sticks in my head because of this monstrosity nicknamed the “Hunchback of Mukilteo”:

That’s the only good looking version of the 964 IMHO.

No problem - just integrate the headlights into the lower fascia:

I know that feeling quite well. Your car is something people might envy, while my car is just an entry-level minivan. But it’s my first new car and thus every scratch and ding tortures me a little bit. I should have been more upset by the bungee cord in the road that destroyed a taillight and put numerous scratches…

To get your mind off of the K-Car problem, might I suggest a nice relaxing game of Postal 2, where every other car seems to be a mk 1 VW Rabbit? Or perhaps Postal 3; I hear that they upgraded to Mk 2 Golfs in that version.

157 HP and 0-60 in the low 8's? Twenty plus years later I have a base minivan that has exactly the same horsepower and performance. How times have changed. And fancier minivans are probably even quicker (but don’t have manual transmissions...)

In the spirit of Save the Manuals, would this one be all that bad?

Put it in the forgotten, unloved classic C107 SLC:

Exactly. I was looking for the ‘/s’ at the end of the comment but I didn’t find it...

Yep, that’s the Vanagon experience in a nutshell. Mom blew the rings in her air-cooled, head gaskets blew shortly after I bought mine, and I think mom had them done on her 1990 a couple of times. Not a great car to have when you’re poor. The fragility of the wasserboxer makes a Subaru swap seem like a good idea, but…

Wrong interior color, but otherwise looks great... ;P

I think people assume they were unsafe because of the seating position, but that really isn’t the case, at least from my personal experience. They may not have crumple zones as we know them today, but VW did an excellent job of engineering crashworthiness into a very challenging design in which to do so.

As long as I had something reliable to drive when they were out of service, there are a couple of VWs I had back in the ‘80s that I wish I still owned. The GTI was such a blast and taught me a great deal about high-performance driving, and I loved the interior color. It was an electrical nightmare, but when it was…

If that’s the case, can they bring back rumble seats in the former engine location?