That’s a tough one. I don’t envy you in that situation. I have something similar in a more personal relationship but it plays out the same. You tell them they aren’t doing something quite right and show them how to do it properly, they then play the blame game with themselves. Instead of learning from their mistakes,…

Honestly, truly interesting. A car I never really cared about growing up (I was just a bit too young) but always assumed it was at least in some way related to the Omni. I’m from the UK and never really understood the whole Rootes history either. Now I can truly care when I see an ex-works car on rallys round here and…

The Autobianchi A112’s Soviet cousin (by marriage).
Not a bad little guy, just a little slow and not completely beyond hope, but so cute that he gets away with murder.

COTD for sure.

Loving the idea, that shape Civic is perfect for builds like this.

My only issue is how far forward of the suspension top-mounts that engine is dangling. It’s almost Audi-esque.
Don’t get me wrong, I know the original motor sits in a similar position, but if you’re doing the work, why not try and shift the weight…

Eel pie everyday mate. In fact, ‘er indoors din’t make one last night, I screamed the bloody house down I did. I shot right up the apples and pears straight to me four poster bed. Can’t be without my eel pie...

It’s such a wasted platform, honestly, lumbering a decent handling wagon with that CVT is borderline criminal.
The hilarious thing though is that they market it here by racing it in the BTCC. Don’t get me wrong, seeing a subaru/wagon in the BTCC is great, but why does the road car have to suck so much?!?

As a UK Jalop, I read this news everywhere and when it dawned on me that it was only the UK getting stiffed on the STI (heh) I really got supremely peeved. So much so I had to put my cup of tea* down, I was that enraged.

The company who imports them has historically made bad decisions about what Subaru cars would sell…

Honestly, 30k is a lot for an ex-track anything in this shape. But I still voted NP simply because I can’t say no to any Viper GTS. I’m a sucker I know.
If I could get it driving even in that state I’d be a genuinely happy man.

Used to do the brakes on my friend’s E36 328 cabrio (and his civic before that) because we were good friends and wrenching was something I had way more time for back then (over 10 years ago).
The last time I did it was the last time I wrenched on someone else’s car without a get-out plan. Did one side as usual,…

Similar to the door thing, people pulling up/driving along with their windows open (so the cameras don’t just see reflections) but they don’t close them at any point either.

Something about 90's Hondas just makes me love them. They look like they’re hewn from solid blocks of reliability.
I still miss my two NC30s and bemoan the price rises on some of the classics like this but honestly, they’re so worth it.

Hats off to you for doing sterling work.

No right-hand drive? Well Volvo, you can bollocks, I’ll take my (not enough) money and (not) spend it elsewhere (because I never had any).

Harrumph.

Thank f**k it wasn’t just me. Been staring at it for about 5 minutes thinking “WTF is that?”.

It had been ages since I’d been in France but I drove over this year. I was actually quite surprised how different the car culture is. It seems the overall consensus is that cars can’t be a hobby/interest, they’re all luxuries. I mean, I can see their point but when a fast Golf is far too bourgeois, it’s getting a…

Yeah I did, the prices were getting bad here in the UK, now they’re going up to silly money*. But then I guess that was bound to happen, exactly the same as R32 GTR Skylines.


*silly money is any money I cannot afford

I know it is probably mostly a Europe/ROW thing right now but seriously, hot hatch golden era perhaps?

Choice of how many? From how many manufacturers? At how many different levels of tune/size/practicality/fun?

Honestly, people moan about X car being “not as good as they used to be” but realistically, how much choice…

Thing is, I was thinking about writing for this one but there were too many times to narrow it down.
When I had my ‘89 passat wagon as my daily (for 5 years), I never had enough money to fill it up. It had a 70 litre tank and a 5 litre fuel filler neck (from the tank to the cap), so roughly 16.5 gallons ish. That…

Come on, people must be able to see past those hellanasty wheels and shonky spare to see this is well worth that right?
I mean, c’mon man, it’s a Viggen! And no matter what shape it’s in, it is running.

If I can’t conviggence you to buy this, maybe a bit of SAABliminal suggestion might work?

Some experience, not a lot though. Not saying you have none, but FCA products have been some of the highest selling vehicles over the last 30 years over here, mass market, multiple platform etc. It’d be like us saying we “know Cadillac”, because we had 5 for about 10 years recently.