Well, including the $2k Recaros it would be $21.5k after incentives and discount for a new ‘16.

Audi has climbed the reliability and quality ladder over the last 15 years. To counter your outdated bias, I’ll assume people who still consider Audi unreliable are all Toyota drivers in their 50s+.

No, really. I even quoted his last sentence for you, wherein he answered your question before you asked it. So that’s twice now you didn’t read this correctly...

Yeah, I feel you on the tires. I had 20s on my S5, which was fine in the Bay Area. But since I’ve moved to San Diego, there is no way I would run low profile tires down here. I will probably downsize wheels on whatever my next car is.

I ruled the Mk7 Golf R out as it is nearly the same price as an S3 when you factor in VW mark up vs Audi discounts. Yes, the Golf is a more practical hatch, but the A3 sedan I have now is quite practical with the fold down rear seats and spacious trunk. If I were going to spend $40k, it wouldn’t be on a Golf.

Yes. Yes, it is.

No. He’s a douche (I haven’t talked to him in years). If anything, he suffers the exact opposite of a phobia of understeer; he has an irrational confidence in his driving.

I’m considering my next car options (I’m a dieselgate A3 owner), and one of my considerations was to go way down in (perceived?) quality and cost for something super economical like a FiST. My concern with an entry-level domestic is that it may have one or possibly two quality issues. More than that would be…

It was a joke poking fun of superstition (in this case another culture’s). It was insensitive by design.

Rumor has it, Honda’s code name for the new S2000 project is Icarus.

I need to remember to include the number seven in my business name, when I open my Happy Lucky Golden Sun Dragon 77 2 donut shop and/or dry cleaner.

Next gen S2000- possibly S2300T- will beat the BRZ STI and BMW Supra to market.

In my MSF class, there was a petite and fairly timid Asian woman who had never even ridden a bicycle. Her husband had already bought her an HD 883 in anticipation of her getting her license. Others of us in the class were making guesses (no bets made, unfortunately) on if she’d pass the class.

When I was in my early twenties, I was on a road trip with a friend and our girlfriends. My friend was driving his Ford Escort and was generally way too confident in his mediocre-at-best driving abilities. He decided it would be cool/funny/impressive/whatever to take a turn toward our hotel really fast, ignoring the…

Please inform the court of your judgement on how much conversation is deemed adequate?

Ok. But that isn’t remotely the situation described in this story. They had a pregnancy SCARE.

It was the other way around for my wife. I taught her to drive stick,which took her a few practice sessions to get comfortable. Then, a few years later, I got her on a dirt bike. The dirt bike was a breeze for her, since she already understood the coordination/relationship of clutch/throttle/shifter.

and last of all (like many new manual cars today) has uphill start assist so that it won’t roll backwards on a hill for a few seconds.

Less ugly than the old one, sure, but not great looking.

I see this being immediately beneficial for the truck drivers, until, of course, it replaces them all together. But in the meantime, this could mean truck drivers can sleep while the truck eats up miles, until they have to drive off the interstate through tighter streets. This means drivers will not be limited to the…